[Steven Zahm]

@ ssnoomann

re: In these special sections I only want to display those database entries that are classified as Organizations – and not display anything set as an Individual using the Names template.

If I understand correctly, you should be able to use the list_type shortcode option by adding the list_type="organization" to the ***existing shortcode.

re: I guess if I could find a list of all the available shortcodes I could probably figure it out myself, but I’ve only been able to find bits and pieces of the shortcode options throughout various posts and documentation.

The core shortcode options are found on this doc page. These will function regardless of template used.

The cMap template does support additional shortcode options but it is highly recommended to use the Template Customizer instead. Here’s is the link to the doc page which goes over the cMap template’s shortcode options.

re: order_by=”meta_key:order|NUMERIC_ASC,sort_column”

I see you are using a meta query to order your entries. Another option which I suggest over this method is the Custom Entry Order extension. The end result of both methods are the same but the Custom Entry Order extension does it a little more efficiently because an optimized db query can be used rather than a meta query.

Hope this answers your questions thoroughly!