Category sort doesn't seem to be sorting by custom category number

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  • 05/08/2015 at 2:22 pm #333784
    Kelly Cheatle
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    Hey Steven-

    First off, AMAZEBALLS plugin. Worth every penny and then some.

    I’m having trouble getting entries to show up sorted into their categories to control the order that they appear.

    In this case, I want to be able to show all of the members in the Executive Board category, and I have also assigned the members within that category to the subcategory of President, VP, Secretary etc. and given those sub categories an order value of 1-6. (the counts below aren’t showing the current number of items with those categories, I took the screen grab before I finished)

    So in theory I’d think that by adding the short codes to display either the entire Executive Board category, or by listing all of the subcategories- that should do what I want, where President shows first, followed by VP etc.

    Here are the short codes I’ve used.

    I tried two different short codes, first listing all of the sub categories, and then the main category:

    [connections category='69,70,71,72,73,74' template="slim" enable_search=FALSE show_alphaindex=FALSE]

    [connections category='68' enable_search=FALSE show_alphaindex=FALSE template="slim"]

    And this is the dev page: http://greener-pastures.net/vbba/officers-trustees-committees/ where you can see they’re still appearing in alpha sort order.

    Thanks so much in advance!
    Kel

    05/11/2015 at 10:36 am #333907
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Kelly

    Hmmm… I think you might be confusing category order with entry order… The category order will only affect the order of the categories when displayed throughout Connections. It does not change the order of the entries assigned to the categories.

    What you need to do to show entries in a specific order is use the order_by shortcode option. See example 2.

    I hope the help clarify the feature a little better. Apologies for any confusion.

    05/13/2015 at 11:23 am #334123
    Kelly Cheatle
    Participant

    Hmm- ok, so I did try the option to sort by the title- but that displays them in order of the titles alphabetically, instead of hierarchically/custom sort. (IE. president should appear first, followed by vp, secretary then historian and then remaining trustees… right now historian appears before pres, and VP is all the way at the end)

    Do you have any suggestions to achieve the goal of sorting them in that order?

    (Future dev request would be to allow for custom ordering of titles, perhaps in the short code (??) where you could use order_by=’title|SPECIFIED:President, Vice President, Secretary, Historian, Trustee’ It would require that people list the same titles they use in the title field, but that might be the simplest way to implement(?)Otherwise a section of the admin that lets you reorder the order of titles by pulling the currently used ones ? )

    Thanks so much in advance- I appreciate how well your plugin is managed!

    05/13/2015 at 1:54 pm #334138
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Kelly

    I don’t think I understand… why will not the example number 2 given of the doc page work for you? You can order the entries in the exact order that you want them to be displayed.

    Example:

    Assuming ID for:
    President = 5
    Vice President = 401
    Secretary = 10
    Historian = 36
    Trustee = 66

    [connections id='5,401,10,36,66' order_by='id|SPECIFIED']

    The above shortcode would order them exactly in order as listed in the id shortcode option.

    05/13/2015 at 2:02 pm #334139
    Kelly Cheatle
    Participant

    PEBCAK error. ;-) THANK YOU!

    05/13/2015 at 2:13 pm #334141
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Kelly

    Great to hear!

    If you have a moment. I would truly appreciate a review as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!

    https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

    05/13/2015 at 2:55 pm #334142
    Kelly Cheatle
    Participant

    Done and done! Thanks again!

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