Not sure how much of this you can help with as it is down to Divi, ACF, and you. (tested by deactivating all other plugins but those
ON this test page: https://ncdcstaging.wpengine.com/alumnus/ you can see the results of a custom post type: alumni_list sorted as we want it.
But here: https://ncdcstaging.wpengine.com/state/south-carolina/ you can see the same Divi template being applied to the “state” taxonomy but the order is by date…
When I echo out the order and orderby values the page that works shows ASC and last_name (which is correct) but on the broken taxonomy pages the same echo shows DESC and nothing for the orderby
I just don’t understand it as they use the same template and the code i use to set the sort fires on both pages…
What the hell am I missing?
Note: I have tested with every kind of sorting option and cannot get any of them to work. Including editing the DIVI blog.php file directly