'name',
'order' => 'ASC',
'hide_empty' => true,
] );
// print ''.print_r($categories,true).'
';
$display_categories = [];
$temp_categories = [];
foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
// create a new stdObj as opposed to WP's object
$new_category = [
'name' => $category->name,
'slug' => $category->slug,
'cat_id' => $category->cat_ID,
'posts' => []
];
$posts_args = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'cat' => $category->term_id,
'posts_per_page' => -1, // gets all posts in this category
'orderby' => 'title',
'order' => 'ASC',
'post_status' => 'publish',
);
$category_posts_query = new WP_Query($posts_args);
if ($category_posts_query->have_posts()) {
while ($category_posts_query->have_posts()) {
$category_posts_query->the_post();
$temp['permalink'] = esc_url(get_permalink());
$temp['title'] = esc_html(get_the_title());
$new_category['posts'][] = $temp;
}
}
// separately store stuff we want at the top - to be added to $display_categories later
if(in_array($category->slug,$custom_order)) {
$temp_categories[$category->slug] = $new_category;
}
else {
$display_categories[] = $new_category;
}
// Restore original Post Data, needed after running a WP_Query that's in a loop
wp_reset_postdata();
}
// go through $custom_order in reverse, so we can prepend each one by one onto $display_categories
$reversed_custom_order_slugs = array_reverse($custom_order);
foreach($reversed_custom_order_slugs as $slug) {
if(isset($temp_categories[$slug])) {
array_unshift($display_categories, $temp_categories[$slug]);
}
}
//print ''.print_r($temp_categories,true).'
';
//print ''.print_r($display_categories,true).'
';exit;
?>