Steven Zahm@ bo blaze
re: When you go to the initial page. I’d like to only display the “featured category” but have people be able to use the category search by state or all.
You can use the category shortcode option to set the “featured” category as the sudo default.
Selecting categories from the drop down will still work correctly, however, searches would be limited to the “feature” category. To get around that, see this.
re: when you click on a state, say NJ, the output would be people with the categories NJ AND Featured first and then just NJ.
I’m assuming that the featured will be only those that are in NJ, correct? This one is a bit more tricky and I do not have a known working way to do this, but I do have an idea…
You can use this method to create a custom order Except you would want to use this shortcode:
[connections order_by="meta_key:order|NUMERIC_ASC,sort_column"]
For “featured” entries you should set them to 1 and the not “featured” to 0.
My guess this will work, giving you the results you want, but I’ve never tried it. You’ll have to let me know how it goes.