Secondary Sort (fallback) for WP_Query

It’s a quite simple revision to your current code. You can add multiple “orderby” values separated by a space.

'orderby'   => 'meta_value_num title',

This should keep the priority of sorting by your meta value, with a secondary sort of title.

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