Prioritise events starting on the day

[eastlife]

Hi there!

Is there a way to sort events so that events that start on a particularly day show in the list ahead of recurring events which may have started weeks or even months ago?

So for example say it is October 1, 2015 today.
I have three events which started on September 15 and one event which started on October 1.
At the moment the three events which began on September 15 appear before the event which started on October 1.

I suppose I could turn the long running events into recurring events, but I’m trying to avoid that option as it conflicts with the way I am importing events (I’m importing several xml feeds and need to update events as well as adding new ones so if an events details changes that is reflected. If I convert the events to recurring events that may mess with these imports.)

Thanks!

[George]

Hey @eastlife,

The ability to more easily change/customize the ordering of events in various views is something we’re working hard on, but at this time there is unfortunately no easy way to do this. It would require some extensive code customization, and not even the recommended kind where you can make all the code tweaks outside of the plugin itself in your theme or something; it would take customizing internal plugin code directly, which is a bad idea and means that a plugin update would wipe your customizations out completely unless you back them up and then manually replace them one-by-one in the new code after update.

Alternatively, you might be able to write some clever JavaScript that checks for events in each day on a page and shuffles things around based on data attributes and the calendar date; but this, too, is some extensive custom development and I can’t think of an efficient/performant way of doing this.

I’m sorry about this disappointing news @eastlife – let me know what you think about it all, and/or if I can help with anything else!

— George

[Cynthia Lockley]

This may help you. See the modifications you can add to your child-theme’s functions.php file on https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/customize-rss-feed/ under the heading “Order Event by Publication Date”.

[George]

Thanks for sharing that @Cynthia!

@eastlife, do you have any thoughts on the things posted here? No worries if not and/or if you’re just busy and haven’t been able to respond yet; just wanted to keep the thread alive and post an update 🙂

— George

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