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*bump* -- can no one help at all? i can't possibly be the first person to want to display categories in a different order than the one in which they were created? please ??? UPDATE: seeing as there didn't seem to be a solution to this i've decided to drop the category view and simply list the articl...

still no luck. sigh. although the categories are displaying correctly, they appear below their respective news items which are now showing up in an order which makes no sense: http://www.grumpyfrombirth.com/cmsmadesimple/index.php?page=news i really didn't think this was going to be so difficult as ...

Nullig wrote: You could try:

$query .= ' ORDER by news_category_name DESC';

instead.

Nullig

thanks nullig -- will give this one a try and hope it does the trick!

aura.

mark wrote: And what does the tag look like now?...

hi mark -- please see my earlier post where i copied in the code i'm using and how i've set things up.

thanks,

aura.

unfortunately this didn't work. please have a look at the test site: http://www.grumpyfrombirth.com/cmsmadesimple/index.php?page=news although the latest category (2009) is now displaying above 2008, the associated articles are no longer displaying below their respective categories (for instance, wh...

hi nullig -- thanks very much, will give it a go. fingers crossed!

aura.

yes that's the problem. the categories are years, so this will always be an issue since the latest year should be at the top but will always be created later. sigh have updated my previous post with code in the hope that it will expose some fatal flaw which i can fix.

aura.

hi mark -- my mistake, my news call on the news index page is: {news sortby="news_category" browsecat="1" sortasc="false"} but any changes i make to the tag seem to only affect the news article order when i click on a category but doesn't seem to affect the order in whi...

hi nullig, thanks again. in the news page template, i use the following: {content dateformat="%b %d, %Y" summarytemplate="BDMLR news"} the summary template looks like this: {if $pagecount > 1}   <p> {if $pagenumber > 1} {$firstpage} {$prevpage}  {/if} {$pagetext} {$pagenumber} {$...

hi nullig - thanks for the quick reply, really appreciate it. i'm not entirely sure where i need to add what you suggest. is it in the browse category template? sorry i'm not very technical.

aura.

i need to change the order in which categories are displayed on my news index page. currently, the newest category shows up at the bottom of the list, which is a problem seeing as my categories are years(!) and i need to have 2009 displayed at the top ;) can anyone please tell me how to do this? ide...

i've run across a major problem. while i can edit content/add news items, etc using firefox (v.3.0.3. on mac os x), i can't actually upload images or any other files (it keeps giving me a red banner error message saying that the file couldn't be uploaded). when i try doing the same thing using safar...

thanks very much! 

hello -- basically i need to have a page which password protected behind a single user account. i've just installed the custom content + front end user management modules. my problem is that i don't know what to do with them! i've looked at the help files and documentation but can't quite figure out...

ronny's suggestion appears to have done the trick! thank you again so much.

aura.