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Content Query web part sort order incorrect
Hello! We're on SharePoint Server 2016, and are using content query web parts to pull in links from several of our lists and document libraries. In the settings for one of these web parts, we have it...
Sandra_Flanagan I realise this post is a year old now but I found it from a web search when I ran into the same issue today on SP2019 and wanted to leave a comment for future SharePoint trouble-shooters to find.
Turns out the order was corrected only after I changed the content type in the query section from "<All Content Types>" to the content type of the items in the library (documents in my case).
Documents and folders were the only two content types available in my library and there were no folders in said library, so I'm not sure why this makes a difference.