Sorting Posts by Taxonomy thats not within the query’s $args

Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t have a built-in way to sort by taxonomy term. You do, though, have a couple of options.

  1. You can iterate through your taxonomy terms and run a separate wp_query for each as this post shows.

  2. You can directly manipulate the SQL query to achieve what you want. This article shows how. Look particularly at the last, Direct JOINs method.

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