Order by custom field in query multiple
You need ‘order_by’ => ‘post__in’ in the last query in order to “Preserve post ID order given in the post__in array (available with Version 3.5).”. I don’t know if the order you are passing in is the order you want after the array_merge( $group_1, $group_2). In other words, you need to feed that second query … Read more