Title: Order Warning
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Order Warning

 *  Resolved [Jim Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtrobinson/)
 * (@jtrobinson)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-warning/)
 * When I have an array as part of the main query orderby field I get the following
   warning:
 *     ```
       Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in C:\wamp\vhosts\wp-3.9\wp-includes\taxonomy.php on line 230
       Call Stack
       #	Time	Memory	Function	Location
       1	0.0020	235608	{main}( )	..\index.php:0
       2	0.0030	238712	require( 'C:\wamp\vhosts\wp-3.9\wp-blog-header.php' )	..\index.php:17
       3	1.4610	42578080	wp( )	..\wp-blog-header.php:14
       4	1.4610	42578376	WP->main( )	..\functions.php:873
       5	1.4640	42653248	WP->query_posts( )	..\class-wp.php:611
       6	1.4640	42653704	WP_Query->query( )	..\class-wp.php:540
       7	1.4640	42659992	WP_Query->get_posts( )	..\query.php:3836
       8	1.4680	42703672	apply_filters_ref_array( )	..\query.php:3249
       9	1.4680	42704648	call_user_func_array:{C:\wamp\vhosts\wp-3.9\wp-includes\plugin.php:269} ( )	..\plugin.php:269
       10	1.4680	42705792	CPT_ONOMIES_MANAGER->posts_clauses( )	..\plugin.php:269
       11	1.4680	42705792	CPT_ONOMIES_MANAGER->is_registered_cpt_onomy( )	..\manager.php:343
       12	1.4680	42705792	taxonomy_exists( )	..\manager.php:833
       ```
   
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cpt-onomies/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cpt-onomies/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Jim Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtrobinson/)
 * (@jtrobinson)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-warning/#post-5759714)
 * When a string is used in orderby this warning does not appear.
 *  [Rachel Cherry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamadesigner/)
 * (@bamadesigner)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-warning/#post-5759977)
 * I will look into it! Thanks!
 *  [Rachel Cherry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamadesigner/)
 * (@bamadesigner)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-warning/#post-5759978)
 * I’ve got the fix up in the [development version](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cpt-onomies/developers/)
   if you want to try it out. Otherwise, I’ll be pushing an update out soon.
 * Thanks!

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 * [order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/order/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)
 * [warning](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/warning/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Rachel Cherry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamadesigner/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-warning/#post-5759978)
 * Status: resolved