tribe_get_events sort order

[kqed]

Hi – I made a widget to display events, but our editor would like the behavior to change from:
display active event tagged “ongoing” ordered by start date
to:
display active event tagged “ongoing” ordered by end date

I tried this but it didn’t have any effect:
$upcoming = tribe_get_events( array(
‘eventDisplay’=>’upcoming’,
‘tag’=>’ongoing’,
‘orderby’=>’EventEndDate’,
‘posts_per_page’=>’-1′
) );

Any advice would be appreciated!

[Barry]

Hi kqed,

That sounds like an interesting problem to solve 🙂

We’re a bit limited in terms of how much assistance we can provide for custom development tasks, but I want to highlight first of all that the meta key for the end date is actually _EventEndDate (note the leading underscore). If changing that by itself doesn’t help, might it be possible to steer away from tribe_get_events() in this situation and use WP_Query directly?

If you reference the orderby section of the WP_Query docs you can see it is possible to order against a meta key:

codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

If that doesn’t work it may be that you need to do some more advanced work and change the where clause using other filters and hooks provided by WP_Query.

I hope that at least provides some paths you can explore – and good luck!

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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