multari_r

Part of my problem is that I can get the subcategories to show in the hierarchy they are supposed to be in in but then the posts won’t show.

I think the key is to combine these two pieces of code.

<?php
global $query_string;
query_posts( $query_string . '&orderby=date&order=DESC' );
?>
<?php if (have_posts()){?>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold">Sort by Date:</span> <a href="<?php echo str_replace(('?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']), '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).'/?sort=date'; ?>">Newest</a> &nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href="<?php echo str_replace(('?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']), '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).'/?sort=date2'; ?>">Oldest</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="font-weight:bold">Sort by Title:</span> <a href="<?php echo str_replace(('?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']), '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).'/?sort=title'; ?>">A to Z</a> &nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href="<?php echo str_replace(('?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']), '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).'/?sort=title2'; ?>">Z to A</a></p>
<?php } ?>
<?php
    if($_GET['sort'] == 'date') query_posts( $query_string . '&orderby=date&order=DESC' );
    if($_GET['sort'] == 'title') query_posts( $query_string . '&orderby=title&order=ASC' );
    if($_GET['sort'] == 'date2') query_posts( $query_string . '&orderby=date&order=ASC' );
    if($_GET['sort'] == 'title2') query_posts( $query_string . '&orderby=title&order=DESC' );
    if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
<div class="home_closed">
    <div class="home_closed_cap"></div>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" class="home_closed_left_cap" rel="bookmark">
        <div class="even">
            <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
            <p class="home_closed_posted_date">Posted <?php the_time('F j, Y') ?></p>
            <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
        </div>
    <div class="home_closed_cap"></div>
    </a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

and

<?php
if(is_category()) {

	$breakpoint = 0;
	$thiscat = get_term( get_query_var('cat') , 'category' );
	$subcategories = get_terms( 'category' , 'parent='.get_query_var('cat') );

	if(empty($subcategories) && $thiscat->parent != 0) {
		$subcategories = get_terms( 'category' , 'parent='.$thiscat->parent.'' );
	}

	$items='';
	if(!empty($subcategories)) {
		foreach($subcategories as $subcat) {
			if($thiscat->term_id == $subcat->term_id) $current = ' current-cat'; else $current = '';
			$items .= '
<div class="home_closed">
    <div class="home_closed_cap"></div>
    <a href="'.get_category_link( $subcat->term_id ).'" title="'.$subcat->description.'" class="home_closed_left_cap" rel="bookmark">
        <div class="even">
            <h3>'.$subcat->name.' ('.$subcat->count.' posts)</h3>
            <p class="home_closed_posted_date">Posted '.get_the_time('F j, Y').'</p>
        </div>
    <div class="home_closed_cap"></div>
    </a>
</div>
			';
		}
		echo "$items";
	}
	unset($subcategories,$subcat,$thiscat,$items);
}

else {
	// If no current cat query, just get the top level ones using wp_list_categories.
	?>
	<ul>
		<?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&depth=1');?>
	</ul>
	<?php
}
?>

I’m wonder if some kind of an “if/then” statement might work but I’m more of a front end developer with a little backend experience. Usually I can fumble my way through but I can’t figure this one out for the life of me.