From 37572b5a8aa67f7635420860ffa6ae4706039e94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cooper Dalrymple <dcooperdalrymple@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 17:16:00 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Improve identification of tax query term

---
 inc/class-sort.php | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/inc/class-sort.php b/inc/class-sort.php
index ac3fad3..8a72c77 100644
--- a/inc/class-sort.php
+++ b/inc/class-sort.php
@@ -300,13 +300,14 @@ final class Sort {
                     foreach ($wp_query->query['tax_query'] as $tax) {
                         if (!isset($tax['taxonomy'])) continue;
                         if ($current_relationship['taxonomy'] != $tax['taxonomy']) continue;
-                        $term_by = $tax['field'];
+                        $term_by = $tax['field'] ?? 'term_id';
                         $term_id = $tax['terms'];
                         break;
                     }
                 } else if ($current_relationship['taxonomy'] === 'category' && isset($wp_query->query['category_name'])) {
                     $term_id = $wp_query->query['category_name'];
                 }
+                if (is_array($term_id)) $term_id = array_values($term_id)[0];
                 if (empty($term_id)) return;
 
                 $term = get_term_by($term_by, $term_id, $current_relationship['taxonomy']);