Drapetomaniac

Information on this problem seems sparse or spread around, so I thought I’d post it here.

I upgrade last week to Joomla 1.5.11

We noticed the problem of Category Blog not showing in proper order after that.

It was stuck on Order no matter how I configured the Category and Primary Order.
I set it to Primary order only, then Primary to most recent. Even which I changed this around, it remained in order.
I changed to multiple templates and it was stuck on Order.
I changed it from Blog view to List View and it was stuck on Order.

I finally looked at the 1.5.11 patch

This was added to:
components/com_content/models/category.php

Code:

 if ($filter_order && $filter_order_Dir)

 {
 $orderby .= $filter_order .' '. $filter_order_Dir.', ';

 }

+       elseif($filter_order == '' && $filter_order_Dir == '')

+      {

+            $filter_order='a.ordering';

+            $filter_order_Dir='ASC';

+            $orderby .= $filter_order .' '. $filter_order_Dir.', ';

+      }

I removed the added lines and it works again – selecting by most recent first.

It looks like they removed the code for the next patch
#15541 http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=15541

Commit
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2F&view=rev&revision=12028

Erik Mauck and others have been working for some time on a documentary about the Austin Time Exchange.  It took a lot of the early start and showed a lot of the ups and downs, evangelists and naysayers. I’m glad to see their work.

Time is Money (Documentary about the Austin Time Exchange Network) from Erik Mauck on Vimeo.