:recycle: chopping excerpt lengths | episode sort working

plugins/cia-endpoints/cia-end-points.php

 }, 10, 1);
 
 add_filter('excerpt_length', function ($length) {
-    return 60;
+    return 30;
 });

plugins/cia-endpoints/includes/class.make-sortby.php

                 ]
             );
         }
-        
-        if($params['episode']) {
-            $args['p2p_query'] = $params['episode'];
-            $args['tax_query'] = [];
-        }
 
         return $args;
     }
 
     public function by_episode( $request ) {
         $q = new WP_Query($this->make_args($request, null));
-        $episode_name = $q->query->p2p_query;
-        $items = $this->prepare_items_for_reponse($q->get_posts());
+        global $wpdb;
+        $type = $q->query['post_type'] . 's';
+        // TODO: optimize this query
+        // $items = $q->get_posts();
+        $items = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare(
+            "SELECT DISTINCT wp_posts.*, 
+                header.post_title AS related_episode 
+            FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_p2p 
+            ON (wp_p2p.p2p_from = wp_posts.ID OR wp_p2p.p2p_to = wp_posts.ID) 
+            LEFT JOIN wp_posts AS header 
+            ON header.ID = IF(wp_posts.ID = wp_p2p.p2p_to, wp_p2p.p2p_from, wp_p2p.p2p_to) 
+            WHERE wp_posts.post_type = %s AND wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' 
+                AND (wp_p2p.p2p_type = %s OR wp_p2p.p2p_type = %s) 
+            ORDER BY header.post_date DESC, related_episode, wp_posts.post_date DESC",
+            trim($type, 's'), $type . "_to_episodes" , "episodes_to_" . $type,
+        ));
         wp_reset_postdata();
 
-        return new WP_REST_Response( $items, 200 );
+        return new WP_REST_Response( $this->prepare_items_for_reponse($items), 200 );
     }
 
     public function prepare_items_for_reponse( $items ) {
         forEach( $items as $item ) {
             $formatted = default_post_format( $item, false );
             $formatted[hero] = get_post_meta( $item->ID, 'hero_header', true );
-            $formatted[relatedto] = p2p_related_to( $item->ID, false );
             array_push($collection, $formatted);
         }
 

plugins/cia-endpoints/includes/formats.php

         $filtered[tags] = make_taxonomy_endpoint_for(get_the_terms( $item, 'post_tag' ));
     }
 
+    if($item->related_episode) {
+        $filtered[related_episode] = strtolower($item->related_episode);
+    }
+
     return $filtered;
 }
 
         $filtered[current] = time() <= (int)$filtered[end] && time() >= (int)$filtered[start];
     }
 
-    // Post categories and tags (store just the slugs)
-    if($item->post_type === 'post') {
-        $filtered[categories] = make_taxonomy_endpoint_for(get_the_terms( $item, 'category' ));
-        $filtered[tags] = make_taxonomy_endpoint_for(get_the_terms( $item, 'post_tag' ));
-    }
-
     return $filtered;
 }