Event order the wrong way around

[Filip]

OK, so now I do this

 <div id="stadspodium">
	    <?
	    // Retrieve events
	    $events = tribe_get_events( array(
		    'posts_per_page' => 3,
		    'tax_query' =>  array(
			    array(
			    'taxonomy' => 'tribe_events_cat',
			    'field' => 'slug',
			    'terms' => array('grotekerkplein'),
			    'operator' => 'NOT IN'
			    )
		    ),
		    'start_date' => new DateTime()
	    ) );
	    // setup thumbnails
	    $spr_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($event->ID);
	    $spr_url = wp_get_attachment_image_src($spr_id,'medium');
	    $spr_url = $spr_url[0];
	    // Loop through the events, displaying the title
	    foreach ( $events as $event ) { ?>
		    <article style="background: url(<? echo $spr_url ?>) center no-repeat; background-size: cover">

			    <div class="meta">
				    <!--what-->
				    <? echo str_replace(
					    ':',
					    '',
					    tribe_get_event_categories($event->ID, array('label'=>''))
				    ); ?>
				    <!--when-->
				    <?php if (tribe_get_start_date() !== tribe_get_end_date() ) { ?>
				    <span class="when">
                 <?php echo tribe_get_start_date($event->ID, false, 'j F Y H:i'); ?> - <?php echo tribe_get_end_date($event->ID, false, 'H:i'); ?>
					    <?php } else { ?>
						    <?php echo tribe_get_start_date($event->ID, false, 'j F Y H:i'); ?>
					    <?php } ?></span>
				    <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> </a></h1>
			    </div>
		    </article>
	    <?}
	    ?>

</div>
<div id="grotekerk">

	<?
	// Retrieve upcoming events
	$events = tribe_get_events( array(
		'posts_per_page' => 4,
		'tax_query' =>  array(
			array(
				'taxonomy' => 'tribe_events_cat',
				'field' => 'slug',
				'terms' => array('grotekerkplein'),
				'operator' => 'IN'
			)
		),
		'start_date' => new DateTime()
	) );
	// setup thumbnails
	$gkp_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($event->ID);
	$gkp_url = wp_get_attachment_image_src($gkp_id,'medium');
	$gkp_url = $gkp_url[0];
	// Loop through the events, displaying the title
	foreach ( $events as $event ) { ?>
		<article style="background: url(<? echo $gkp_url ?>) center no-repeat; background-size: cover">
			<div class="meta">
				<!--what-->
				<? echo str_replace(
					':',
					'',
					tribe_get_event_categories($event->ID, array('label'=>''))
				); ?>
				<!--when-->
				<?php if (tribe_get_start_date() !== tribe_get_end_date() ) { ?>
				<span class="when">
                 <?php echo tribe_get_start_date($event->ID, false, 'j F Y H:i'); ?> - <?php echo tribe_get_end_date($event->ID, false, 'H:i'); ?>
					<?php } else { ?>
						<?php echo tribe_get_start_date($event->ID, false, 'j F Y H:i'); ?>
					<?php } ?></span>
				<h1><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> </a></h1>
			</div>
		</article>
	<?}
	?>
</div>

This gets me 3 events with the same featured image and the wrong events in Stadspodium, and in Grotekerkplein the same 4 events with another featured image, and supposedly the right category (but when in fact: the wrong category). Please help me solve this mess, so I can move on to profitable projects. Thanks.

[Filip]

Ok, thumbnails were outside of foreach, so those work (my bad). The dates are probably correct, now only for the titles (and permalinks).

[Filip]

And solved, apparently there setup_postdata does not prevent having to call $event->ID all the time and echoing works better than just outputting results. Phew. In comparison this is what the competion needs for about the same result echo do_shortcode([event_list limit=3 category="3"]);

FWIW we run php5.5 local and php5.4 remote; nothing too outdated for that, as I’m sure you agree.

As for documentation: I’d focus on theme developers, the documentation is either too simple/generic, or too hardcore and riddled with links to the codex. For this specific issue there were at least 4 possible solutions, both inside and outside the documentation. That just confuses people, I’m sure.

[George]

Thank you for your feedback about our documentation, Filip. I’m not just saying that to be a “polite customer support person” – your comments, especially here at the end, are valuable ones and I think you make a good point about how we have things organized!

Best of luck with your site,
George

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