Amy55

Thanks for your quick response. I do have a caching plugin, but there’s no way for me to know if the users’ browsers are caching (and the answer always seems to be for them to clear their cookies). My hosting service also has a 3-hour caching setup, which I could disable if I had to.

I figured it out. The settings.php called “featured1” not “featured” as the name of the field. So I changed that in the code above

from

query_posts('showposts=4&cat=' . get_cat_ID(dp_settings('featured')));
to
query_posts('showposts=4&cat=' . get_cat_ID(dp_settings('featured1')));

Now I can sort by category. Very frustrating, but fixed now.