It happened that in Joomla 1.5.11 [so far as I've been informed] there's a lil bug forcing articles sorting on "order" instead of "latest". And here's the out commenting hack at hand:
Sftp in to path/whatever/components/com_content/models/category.php and out comment the lines as indicated below:
if ($filter_order && $filter_order_Dir)
{
$orderby .= $filter_order .' '. $filter_order_Dir.', ';
}
// elseif($filter_order == '' && $filter_order_Dir == '')
// {
// $filter_order='a.ordering';
// $filter_order_Dir='ASC';
// $orderby .= $filter_order .' '. $filter_order_Dir.', ';
// }
If you've downloaded J1.5.x past this moment [see the date of this post] then just ignore it.
