List all events and sort by latest date

[Terrance]

Hi,
I’m able to use WP_Query to list out all the event in the event list. How can I sort them by the latest date. What is the parameter for orderby, or is there any better way of listing all events?

Thanks in advance.

[Rob]

We should be able to help you with this. I’ll get Jonah to comment directly.

[Jonah]

If you are working with WP_Query you should be able to use all parameters available to it. However, I would suggest using the plugin native function tribe_get_events instead because if you’re trying to orderby with WP_Query it’s going to order by the published date and not the date of the events.

To query using tribe_get_events you would do something like this:

global $post;
$all_events = tribe_get_events( array('eventDisplay'=>'all', 'posts_per_page'=>-1) );
foreach($all_events as $post) : setup_postdata($post);
echo '';
the_title();
echo '';

if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
echo '<a href="';
the_permalink();
} else {
echo the_excerpt();
}
endforeach;


You can change eventDisplay to ‘past’, ‘upcoming’, ‘day’, ‘all’ or ‘month’ and then you can still use all the other parameters available with WP_Query.

Hope that helps,
Jonah

[Terrance]

Thanks! Jonah. Got it working.

[Jonah]

Glad to hear! Let us know if you need anything else.

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