{"id":1022372,"date":"2015-11-05T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T23:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/tribe_get_events-orderby-post-date-rather-than-event-start-date\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:30:58","slug":"tribe_get_events-orderby-post-date-rather-than-event-start-date","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/tribe_get_events-orderby-post-date-rather-than-event-start-date\/","title":{"rendered":"tribe_get_events orderby Post Date rather than Event Start Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Guys,<\/p>\n<p>I have a section on the home page on my local install of eamba.amba.org.au that pulls in a single event using tribe_get_events(). I&#8217;m trying to grab the post that was most recently created (post_date). My arguments are currently:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$events = tribe_get_events( array(\n&#039;posts_per_page&#039; =&gt; 1,\n&#039;orderby&#039;        =&gt; &#039;date&#039;,\n&#039;order&#039;          =&gt; &#039;DESC&#039;,\n) ); ?&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This query, however, returns the event with the event start date that is farthest in the future. I&#8217;ve tried orderby =&gt; ID rather than date, as this is effectively the same thing (assuming one doesn&#8217;t change the post_date manually) but I can&#8217;t seem to make it work as intended. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the forum posts I&#8217;ve read and applied to resolve it but without any success:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/possible-fix-for-tribe_get_events-ignores-values-of-order-and-orderby-args?replies=13#post-4814011<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/tribe_get_events-sort-order\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any help would be appreciated. BTW, our license is a free community one (we&#8217;re a not-for-profit), so if this precludes me from support I understand.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve ticked the &#8220;YES, I&#8217;ve reverted to TwentyFourteen&#8230;&#8221; box and &#8220;YES, I&#8217;ve deactivated&#8230;&#8221; checkboxes in order to send this request. I have to use the theme, Forsythes, in order to use the query, and have those plugins enabled to make the page work.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Joel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1022372","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>tribe_get_events orderby Post Date rather than Event Start Date -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/tribe_get_events-orderby-post-date-rather-than-event-start-date\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"tribe_get_events orderby Post Date rather than Event Start Date -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi Guys, I have a section on the home page on my local install of eamba.amba.org.au that pulls in a single event using tribe_get_events(). 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