Blog grid displaying in random order when WooCommerce is activated

Just to follow up I have tried using this code in my child theme’s functions.php file and it does not work:

add_filter('avia_blog_post_query', 'avia_modify_post_grid_query_desc');

function avia_modify_post_grid_query_desc( $query ) {
$query['orderby'] = 'date';
$query['order'] = 'DESC';
return $query;
}

Thanks for the reply. I did as suggested and the problem disappeared, so I tried turning on the plugins one by one again. The culprit was Toolset Types. I was using this plugin to add the default Category taxonomy to WooCommerce products – they need to have a shared taxonomy with Blog posts. So I disabled the plugin and added this code to my theme:

function add_wp_taxonomy_to_cpt() {
 register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'product' ); 
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_wp_taxonomy_to_cpt' );

Now only WooCommerce is activiated and the problem still exists. It appears to be related to sharing the default post category with products. This is a new problem – any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Danielle

In this case, we are sharing the default post categories with products.

Hi Basilis,

Thanks for your response. The site has now been launched at https://ruffell-brown.com/

You can see the blog grid here: https://ruffell-brown.com/blog/

Note the Random order.

We are using this function to allow default blog post categories to be applied to Products:

function add_wp_taxonomy_to_cpt() {
 register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'product' ); 
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_wp_taxonomy_to_cpt' );

This way, you can tag a blog post as “sheer blinds” and a product as “sheer blinds” as well under the same shared taxonomy. This function appears to affect only the blog grid using a category filter, making it appear in random order.

We have been using this method for several years, but only very recently is it affecting this blog display.

I hope this is clear.

Thanks,

Danielle

Hi, If I use a Blog Posts element set to Blog Posts without specifying categories, it does work as expected; however, there are a bunch of categories we don’t want to show in the blog grid.