Event ordering on home page

[Rene Schipper]

Hi,

On the homepage of the site we want to display the last entered event in a category. How can we arrange that because at this moment not the event with the last published date is visible but a event that has the highest date (from now).

For example:
Someone has published a event called ‘betoverende winterwandeltocht in Klarenbeek’ for 30 januari 2016. After this event was published another event in this category with an earlier date was published but not visible on the homepage.

Cheers,

Rene Schipper

[George]

Hey @Rene,

Most of what you’re trying to do would require writing custom code – that is unfortunately not something we offer support for, so we can’t help out a whole lot here, but I’m happy to share some resources to get you started in the right direction.

The first thing worth sharing is our Themer’s Guide, which will describe how to customize The Events Calendar views in a safe way. Check that out here if you haven’t already → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Next, and most important specifically to your request of displaying events by a certain category and order, is this article on using tribe_get_events() → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/using-tribe_get_events/

That tribe_get_events() function is how you’ll be able to get events by category and then sort them by publish date – check out that article and play around with things a bit, these resources combined should help quite a bit!

Cheers,
George

[Rene Schipper]

Hi George,

Thanks for the answer and I will look at the named options.

But… isn’t that a strange setting? I sounds logical to me to view the latest published event and not to publish an event with the latest date (in the future).

Rene

[George]

Hey Rene,

Thanks for your feedback here. I would tend to agree that it would be odd to make the order by start date an odd setting, but we’re not really making it a “setting” here – in your case, you want to write a custom query for events on your homepage:

On the homepage of the site we want to display the last entered event in a category.

For where we have our default event queries, showing events by start date makes some more sense because these are the default “out-of-the-box” calendar views, and just like any physical calendar out there or calendar app like iCal or Google Calendar, we show the events in the calendar by start date.

I’ll close up this ticket for now – I wish you the best of luck with your customizations!

Cheers,
George

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