hyperbytes

Firstly, assuming you are using a child theme the following will allow you to specify if a category, tag or author is shown. It should be added to your child theme functions.php
(code from stackexchange.com).
add_filter( ‘get_the_archive_title’, function ($title) {
if ( is_category() ) {
$title = single_cat_title( ”, false );
} elseif ( is_tag() ) {
$title = single_tag_title( ”, false );
} elseif ( is_author() ) {
$title = ‘<span class=”vcard”>’ . get_the_author() . ‘</span>’ ;
}
return $title;
});
Secondly again add this code to your child theme functions.php code which allows you to specify how the posts are ordered etc. (reoplace “XXXX” with your post type

function my_pre_get_posts( $query ) {

// do not modify queries in the admin
if( is_admin() ) {

return $query;

}

// only modify queries for ‘xxxx’ post type. This code can be duplicated and repeated for multiple post types
// simply change meta-key as required and order as required
if( isset($query->query_vars[‘post_type’]) && $query->query_vars[‘post_type’] == ‘XXXX’ ) {

$query->set(‘orderby’, ‘meta_value’);
$query->set(‘meta_key’, ‘order’);
$query->set(‘order’, ‘DESC’);

}

}

Could it simply be a cache issue? I find that pages often don’t refresh correctly if only an “element” of the page is changed, especially with some fast cache plugins.. Try forcing a refresh by adding a parameter to the end of the string i.e. add something like ?x=1 which will force a full page refresh. Alternatively clear your browser cache.