Hi Devin,
Thank you.
I am glad that it did work 🙂

1. That is doable, we will need to use some code to do that

2. Yes, it is doable too. We are using wp_dropdown_categories() which allows us to sort by ID,Name,slug in ascending or descending order. which order you want?

Please let me know and I will put the code 🙂

Hi Devin,

1. to set a default category when the user does not choose it

add_action( 'bsfep_post_saved', 'buddydev_add_default_category_to_post' );
function buddydev_add_default_category_to_post( $post_id ) {
    
	$tax = array_filter( $_POST['tax_input'] );
	
	if( empty( $tax ) && $post_id ) {
		//no category was set
		$term = 32;//ID
		wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $term, 'category' );
		
	}
    

}

Change the value of term with the ID of the category you want to assign.

2. To Order the list display, I am sorry but that will need another update for simple front end post. you can download it from the site now. and then, as in my previous replies, I had posted the code for modifying setting, here is updated version of that

function buddyblog_show_custom_cats( $settings ) {
	$tax = array();
	 
	$tax['category'] = array(

		'taxonomy'		=> 'category',
		'view_type'		=> 'dd',
		'child_of'		=> 29, //CHAGE It with the correct ID,
		'orderby'		=> 'slug',
		'order'			=> 'ASC'
	);
	
	$settings['tax'] = $tax;
	
	return $settings;
}

Hope that helps.

Please do let me know how it went for you.