FINAL UPDATE: GOT IT. A rogue plugin. I have no idea why it was affecting just *that* cateogry, and no idea why I can't find the proper category numbers in WP 3.0, but at least the updates are sorting correctly. GAH.
OKAY IT WASN'T SUCH A FINAL UPDATE FIxed that page. Screwed up the Panelists and Guests of Honor category pages. GAH.
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The Arras theme in Wordpress simply insists on ordering category page results in chronological order, which MAKES NO SENSE.
See?
http://www.condfw.org/category/update/No clue yet how to fix it. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
Update: STILL NO CLUE. This SHOULD work:<?php if (is_category('9')) { $posts = query_posts($query_string. '&orderby=date&order=DESC' ); } ?>
Assuming that I'm getting the category number correct, that is. WP seems to have changed that in 3.0, so that cat_ID doesn't show up, instead tag_ID does, which doesn't seem to be effective in the above code. I had to go to a test install of WP that I used several months ago to mess about with the site to see what the category number USED to be. And the reason I think it's using what the category number used to be is...it's using that for the Guests of Honor and Panelists category pages. If I change those in a similar bit of code to the above to the tag_ID, then it FAILS.
Update again: STILL WEIRDER.OK, so THIS still shows the update posts (category 9) in chronological order instead of reverse chronological order (and no, changing DESC to ASC does not re-order them, either):
<?php $posts = query_posts($query_string. '&cat=9&orderby=date&order=DESC' ); ?>
However, THIS:
<?php $posts = query_posts($query_string. '&orderby=date&order=DESC' ); ?>
gets ALL posts ... and orders them in reverse chronological order! Exactly as it should work! WHAT GIVES?!
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