[Steven Zahm]

@ 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!