Meta sort breaks when combined with other filters
Sorting by a custom field returns no posts or the wrong posts when combined with a taxonomy or meta filter.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 23 December 2025 · last reported 8 October 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners who sort posts by a date custom field also need to filter by category or by a date cutoff.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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