Title: Catablog now working erratically
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Catablog now working erratically

 *  Resolved [beelzebomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beelzebomb/)
 * (@beelzebomb)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/catablog-now-working-erratically/)
 * Suddenly (& I mean suddenly) not working as expected.
 * Was on WP 4.3 with no issues, did not upgrade to latest WP 4.4 until unexplained
   problems started to happen – upgrade didn’t fix.
 * How My Site _Should_ Work
    -  Each individual page should have new items appear at the top (descending)
      
      each new item should also go to the top of the home page.
 * How My Site is _Now_ Working
    -  No new items are appearing on the home page.
       One of the individual pages
      does not load items at the top (descending)
 * Relevant Code:
    Home page:
 *     ```
       <?php  echo do_shortcode( '[catablog template="seantcatablog" category="everything-else,seating,shelving,storage,tables-and-desks,trolleys," limit="6" navigation="no" order="desc"]' );  ?>
           <?php /* echo do_shortcode( '[catablog]' );*/ ?>
       ```
   
 * Example of Individual Page:
 *     ```
       <?php  echo do_shortcode( '[catablog template="seantcatablog" category="tables-and-desks" limit="10" order="desc"]' );  ?>
           <?php /* echo do_shortcode( '[catablog]' );*/ ?>
       ```
   
 * Rogue Individual Page Where Items are Not Appearing at the Top:
 *     ```
       <?php  echo do_shortcode( '[catablog template="seantcatablog" category="everything-else" limit="10" order="desc"]' );  ?>
           <?php /* echo do_shortcode( '[catablog]' );*/ ?>
       ```
   
 * I hope I’ve explained this clearly, but with other longstanding, seemingly unresolvable,
   issues – has Catablog simply had it’s day?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/catablog/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/catablog/)

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 *  Thread Starter [beelzebomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beelzebomb/)
 * (@beelzebomb)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/catablog-now-working-erratically/#post-6860638)
 * Ok this is resolved.
 * Here’s the solution if it helps others…
 * Each line of code was requiring an addition:
 * `sort="date"`
 * So instead of:
    `<?php echo do_shortcode( '[catablog template="seantcatablog"
   category="seating" limit="10" order="desc"]' ); ?>`
 * We now have:
    `<?php echo do_shortcode( '[catablog template="seantcatablog" category
   ="seating" limit="10" sort="date" order="desc"]' ); ?>`
 * This solves the issue – it is likely that the extra code snippet should have 
   been included from the start, but as is the way of code, it had compensated and
   worked fine up until early December.
 *  [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/catablog-now-working-erratically/#post-6860763)
 * Hi, I am glad you resolved your issue by adding the simple snippet code. Can 
   I ask you for a favor and click on the front to say that it is compatible with
   WordPress 4.4.
 * Thank you kindly also for sharing your solution above.
 * Kind regards
 *  Plugin Author [macguru2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macguru2000/)
 * (@macguru2000)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/catablog-now-working-erratically/#post-6860893)
 * Sounds to me like WordPress core changed how it sorts by default, thus you are
   now being forced to set the sort parameter to `date`. Thanks for posting your
   findings, I hope it helps other CataBlog users.

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## Tags

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 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [macguru2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macguru2000/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/catablog-now-working-erratically/#post-6860893)
 * Status: resolved