Maybe some screenshots or more detailed "Steps to reproduce the issue" can help to understand the issue. I don't understand what you are talking about.

Hi:

Sorry. I should have been more forthcoming. You will see from this link that it is a list from the category "2021 Candidates" and the list is in the order they were entered. http://northpennvotes.org/index.php/14-2021-candidates. I am trying to get it alphabetical order by name

No matter where I go to change the order of that list by title. Attached are some screen shots from efforts to change the order.
I am technical and proficient in Java but not PHP. But I am sure that I could help debug if you need me to. The site is a live site, So I don't want to stray too far with it.

Regards,
Rob

It is probably due to a bug in your template which produces this javascript error when you click on the title

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'value' of undefined
    at Object.e.tableOrdering (core.js?a9b3631d7ca9065548b61b66fafd2ef4:1)
    at HTMLAnchorElement.onclick (14-2021-candidates:129)

You can confirm if I am correct and it is the template by temporarily switching to the default protostar template and see if the sort works

Hi Brian:
I switched to the prostar template and confirmed that the list sort order was by title and got the same result I am afraid.
The uncaught error in that is in your email, how did you generate that.? I inspected the console in chrome and did not see any javascript error when I displayed the page.
Regards,
Rob

Sorry , I forgot to include a new screenshot.

Brian:

I have narrowed it down further and fixed the issue.

I was getting to the list directly via the breadcrumbs. I had no actual menu for that category list.

As soon as I created a menu for that list, both the menu item and the breadcrumb link worked!

I confirmed that removal of the menu item altered the behaviour of the breadcrumb link to not recognise the ssort.

Regards,
Rob

This should now be closed as resolved