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WordPress – How to display a list of subcategories in order by name and not in chronological order?

I have categories and subcategories.

The category page displays the subcategories under it using the following code:

add_shortcode( 'list_subcats', function() {
ob_start();
$current_cat = get_queried_object();
$term_id = $current_cat->term_id;
$taxonomy_name = 'category';
$term_children = get_term_children( $term_id, $taxonomy_name );
echo '<ul class="list-subcats">';
foreach ( $term_children as $child ) {
$term = get_term_by( 'id', $child, $taxonomy_name );
echo '<li><a href="' . get_term_link( $child, $taxonomy_name ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
return ob_get_clean();
} );

The subcategories are listed in chronological order.

I would like to display the list of subcategories in order by name and not in chronological order.

Is it possible to display the subcategories list by name and not in chronological order with this code?

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  1. 0

    Can you sort the $term_children?
    or output to an array to sort first ?

    This should give you the desired result.

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  2. 0

    To display the list of subcategories ordered by name instead of chronological order, you can modify the code as follows:

    1. Replace this line:

      $term_children = get_term_children( $term_id, $taxonomy_name );

      with:

      $term_children = get_terms( array(
    'taxonomy' => $taxonomy_name,
    'parent' => $term_id,
    'orderby' => 'name',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'hide_empty' => false,
) );

      This uses the get_terms() function to retrieve the subcategories based on the $term_id and $taxonomy_name. The orderby parameter is set to 'name' to sort the subcategories by name, and the order parameter is set to 'ASC' for ascending order.

    2. Update the foreach loop to use the $child object directly instead of fetching the term again:

      foreach ( $term_children as $child ) {
    echo '<li><a href="' . get_term_link( $child->term_id, $taxonomy_name ) . '">' . $child->name . '</a></li>';
}

      Since $term_children now contains the term objects, you can directly access the term_id and name properties of each $child object.

    Here’s the updated code:

    add_shortcode( 'list_subcats', function() {
    ob_start();
    $current_cat = get_queried_object();
    $term_id = $current_cat->term_id;
    $taxonomy_name = 'category';
    $term_children = get_terms( array(
        'taxonomy' => $taxonomy_name,
        'parent' => $term_id,
        'orderby' => 'name',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'hide_empty' => false,
    ) );
    echo '<ul class="list-subcats">';
    foreach ( $term_children as $child ) {
        echo '<li><a href="' . get_term_link( $child->term_id, $taxonomy_name ) . '">' . $child->name . '</a></li>';
    }
    echo '</ul>';
    return ob_get_clean();
} );

    With these changes, the subcategories will be displayed in alphabetical order by name.

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