[Rebecca]

This worked perfectly! Thanks! I ended up with:

[connections category=10 order_by='meta_key:order|NUMERIC_ASC' template='profile']

This let me filter by a category, order by my custom field “order,” and use a different template from elsewhere on our site. One note for others trying this – because I had more than 10 individuals, I needed to do the numbering in the “order” field as 01, 02, 03… instead of 1, 2, 3…

Thank you again! Wonderful plugin.