Question

I have a for each statement that looks for a Taxonomy by ID and gets all termchildren and lists them using a foreach loop. I’m trying to figure out how to order them alphabetically by title. Here’s my code:

$termID = 5;
$taxonomyName = "apartmentlocation";                        
$termchildren = get_term_children( $termID, $taxonomyName );

foreach ($termchildren as $child) {
    $term = get_term_by( 'id', $child, $taxonomyName);
    echo '<li><a href="' . get_term_link( $term->name, $taxonomyName ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
    }

Answer 1

Try get_terms() instead, as it accepts a wider set of arguments.

//put your term and taxonomy variables here
$termID = 5;
$taxonomyName = "apartmentlocation"; 

$args = array(
    'child_of' => $termID,
    'orderby' => 'name', //this is the default, it actually isn't needed
    'order' => 'ASC' //this is the default as well
);
$termchildren = get_terms($taxonomyName, $args);

//do the rest of your loop
foreach ($termchildren as $child) {
    $term = get_term_by( 'id', $child, $taxonomyName);
    echo '<li><a href="' . get_term_link( $term->name, $taxonomyName ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
}