1. Issue with getting filtered categories to populate when using directory module on a page. It did this with three categories: Curriculum and Instruction; Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies; and Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling. I was able to create shorter categories and slugs (Curriculum, ELPTS, and ESPRMC) in order to get them to filter and populate. However, it appears that if the title or slug is long, it will not work. Even without hyphens or special characters. Was never able to get slug "curriculum-instruction" to work.
2. When using categories on the left side on main directory, listings are in order from most recently posted not by last names. Can we fix?
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**Reported by:** kelcey.sexton@ua.edu

## Describe the Issue and the Expected Behavior
1) Working on a draft for a department page. Added directory module/block to Minerva grid. When highlighting block and trying to filter by category in block settings, three of them will not work: Curriculum & Instruction (curriculum-and-instruction) ; Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies (educational-leadership-policy-technology-studies); and Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling (educational-studies-in-psychology-research-methodology-and-counseling). I was later able to create shorter names and slugs for the three in order to get them to populate: Curriculum & Instruction (curriculum), ELPTS (elpts), and ESPRMC (esprmc). Also tried curriculum-instruction, but even that wouldn't work. Appears to be longer titles and slugs that do not work. Could still be a bug?

2) Went to main directory page, https://education.ua.edu/directory/. When clicking on any of the categories on the left to sort directory entries by department, the listings are in order from most recently posted. Would like option to be able to sort by last name instead.

## How to reproduce
1) Working on a draft for a department page. Added directory module/block to Minerva grid. When highlighting block and trying to filter by category in block settings, three of them will not work: Curriculum & Instruction (curriculum-and-instruction) ; Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies (educational-leadership-policy-technology-studies); and Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling (educational-studies-in-psychology-research-methodology-and-counseling). I was later able to create shorter names and slugs for the three in order to get them to populate: Curriculum & Instruction (curriculum), ELPTS (elpts), and ESPRMC (esprmc). Also tried curriculum-instruction, but even that wouldn't work. Appears to be longer titles and slugs that do not work. Could still be a bug?

2) Went to main directory page, https://education.ua.edu/directory/. When clicking on any of the categories on the left to sort directory entries by department, the listings are in order from most recently posted. Would like option to be able to sort by last name instead.

### Where the problem occurs
a-specific-page

## Diagnostic Info

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Site URL: | https://education.ua.edu |
| Theme: | UA Theme 3.6.1 |
| Parent Theme: | N/A |
| Wordpress Version: | 6.8.3 |
| PHP Version: | 7.4.33 |
| Multisite? | Yes |
| Custom CSS? | No |
| Operating system: | Win64x64 |
| Browser: | Chrome 141.0.0.0 |
| Javascript enabled? | Yes |
| Cookies enabled? | Yes |
| Browser Size: | 1436 x 903 |

### User Agent String

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

### Plugin List

| Name | Version | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection| 5.5 | Inactive |
| Forminator| 1.47.0 | Inactive |
| Gravity Forms| 2.8.17 | Inactive |
| Gravity Forms Chained Selects Add-On| 1.7 | Inactive |
| Gravity Forms reCAPTCHA Add-On| 1.6.0 | Inactive |
| Hello Dolly| 1.7.2 | Inactive |
| Pretty Google Calendar| 2.0.0 | Inactive |
| Redirection| 5.5.2 | Active |
| UA Allow Iframes| 1.0.0 | Inactive |
| WordPress Importer| 0.9.4 | Active |
| WPForms Lite| 1.9.8.2 | Inactive |
| X3P0: Breadcrumbs| 1.0.1 | Active |

Theme 3.6.3

Directory Module Issue

## Background

Heading text wraps by individual letter on certain screen sizes rather than some form of intelligent wrapping.
Visible within this section on afford.ua.edu:

![textwrapping](https://github.com/UA-Stratcom/ua-theme_v3/assets/110553212/53e894da-0535-422b-becc-68843914efce)


## Description

A plugin to determine best-case hyphenation and wrapping, or enabling the \&shy; character or \<wbr> element within the WordPress code editor for manual insertion 

## Workarounds

No current workaround available/known

## Additional information

Related issue: https://github.com/UA-Stratcom/minerva/issues/179


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