Sorting ShortCoded CMAP Listings

@ MV Times

re: Must be a busy week. Can you let us know (at least) and ETA on a response for this ticket?

Many answers come some day, most in under 24hours (unless its a weekend or holiday)… it has not been quite 24hrs, yet ;)

re: We have custom (numbered category id) lists on all of our directory pages. (See screenshot.)

I’ve looked at the screenshot… honestly, I can’t quite figure out what it is supposed to be showing me.

And, the link you gave for the custom sort post, that is a search link… is the link you are referring to this one?

http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/sort-by-custom-field/#post-335687

re: For example, if our “custom field” is “Town”, will sorting by Town, reorder just that list by town or, will it pull up all

Honestly… there is no way for me to tell you based on just the key name (town) of how it’ll sort. I’d need to know the values and what the shortcode is that you are using for the custom field sort. But is a very general statement, I believe fields which do not have the custom field of “town” will be excluded from the results.

Not sure if that helps or not… hope it does.

@ MV Times

The first thing I see…

‘order_by=’category|SORT_ACS,zipcode|SORT_DESC’`

You can not sort by category, you can only sort by the options lined in the doc page for the order_by shortcode option.

I suspect you are looking to group by category and sort the entries within that group. That is not possible. What you could attempt to do is add a shortcode for each category group you want to display on the page.

re: We would like the user to be able to sort this list by Town.

There is not a way for the user to sort the results. The only option is to allow the user to filter by city by enabling the permalink for the city… something I see that you’ve already done. Clicking a city name will limit the list to just the city being clicked. You could add the following to the *theme’s** custom CSS area so they are visually apparent that they are links:

#cn-cmap a {
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-style: solid;
}

The theme does not make it very discoverable because links are not decorated differently from regular text. Another is is the theme seems to hide order lists and unordered lists. Not sure why one would do that… but this is why the clear search message box is empty. Adding the following to the theme’s custom CSS area will fix that:

ul#cn-search-message-list {
    display: initial;
}

Hope that helps!

@ MV Times

On the feature list, add lock='true to the shortcode. That should prevent the list from being filtered by the query.

@ MV Times

Your shortcode is either “corrupt” or there was a copy paste error because what you have is not a valid WP shortcode:

[connections category='644' |SORT_ACS,zipcode|SORT_DESC' template='cmap' page_limit='5' home_id='19413' lock='true']

This could be the issue.

This is the part that is wrong, because it is incomplete:

|SORT_ACS,zipcode|SORT_DESC'

It should be (something-here is a placeholder for a valid sort field):

order_by='something-here|SORT_ACS,zipcode|SORT_DESC'

OR

order_by='zipcode|SORT_DESC'