Custom Event Loop, Orderby not working

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(@mkormendy)

I am trying to make my own custom loop of events with special row demarcations, and I have tried to use many different argument combinations with the new WP_query object, just to get it to sort future events from immediate to later in the future.

Unfortunately, the order keeps sorting it by name. I have looked at the following posts, and tried their different argument structures to no avail:

(Agelonwl example) https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-query-ignores-scopefuture
(Marcus example) https://wordpress.org/support/topic/infinite-scroll-6?replies=17

This is my code block:

<div class="pad group">
    <h1 class="post-title">Upcoming Events</h1>
    <?php
    $args = array('post_type' => 'event',
                  'orderby' => 'event_start_date',
                  'order' => DESC );
    $events_query = new WP_Query( $args );
    ?>
    <?php if ( $events_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
    <div class="post-list group">
      <?php $i = 1; echo '<div class="post-row">'; while ( $events_query->have_posts() ): $events_query->the_post(); ?>

        <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class('group post'); ?>>
          <div class="post-inner post-hover">

            <div class="post-thumbnail">
              <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
                <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ): ?>
                  <?php the_post_thumbnail('thumb-medium'); ?>
                <?php elseif ( ot_get_option('placeholder') != 'off' ): ?>
                  <img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/thumb-medium.png" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
                <?php endif; ?>
                <?php if ( has_post_format('video') && !is_sticky() ) echo'<span class="thumb-icon"><i class="fa fa-play"></i></span>'; ?>
                <?php if ( has_post_format('audio') && !is_sticky() ) echo'<span class="thumb-icon"><i class="fa fa-volume-up"></i></span>'; ?>
                <?php if ( is_sticky() ) echo'<span class="thumb-icon"><i class="fa fa-star"></i></span>'; ?>
              </a>
              <?php if ( comments_open() && ( ot_get_option( 'comment-count' ) != 'off' ) ): ?>
                <a class="post-comments" href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><span><i class="fa fa-comments-o"></i><?php comments_number( '0', '1', '%' ); ?></span></a>
              <?php endif; ?>
            </div><!--/.post-thumbnail-->

            <div class="post-meta group">
              <p class="post-category"><?php the_category(' / '); ?></p>
              <p class="post-date"><?php get_post_meta($post_id, '_event_start_date', true); ?></p>
            </div><!--/.post-meta-->

            <h2 class="post-title">
              <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
            </h2><!--/.post-title-->

            <?php if (ot_get_option('excerpt-length') != '0'): ?>
            <div class="entry excerpt">
              <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
            </div><!--/.entry-->
            <?php endif; ?>

          </div><!--/.post-inner-->
        </article><!--/.post-->

      <?php if($i % 2 == 0) { echo '</div><div class="post-row">'; } $i++; endwhile; echo '</div>'; ?>
    </div><!--/.post-list-->
    <?php get_template_part('inc/pagination'); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
  </div>

https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

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Plugin Support angelo_nwl
(@angelo_nwl)

10 years, 6 months ago

you can try the last snippet shared by Marcus from this thread – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/em-with-wp_query-and-orderby-date?replies=15
Thread Starter mkormendy
(@mkormendy)

10 years, 6 months ago
Actually that was another reference of a script I already tried that did not work.
In that case, I copied and pasted Marcus’s exact code and the outcome was in this order:
- “Not So Classic” Golf Tournament – 2015-10-02
- CTAC’s Annual Base Ball Banquet – 2015-10-22
- D & G 4-D Barrel Race – 2015-09-25
- Duncan Little Theatre’s – 2015-11-13
- Duncan Little Theatre’s – 2016-02-19
- Duncan Little Theatre’s “Becky’s New Car” – 2015-09-18
- Duncan Little Theatre’s Miracle on 34th Street – 2015-11-13
- Duncan’s Little Theatre presents – 2016-02-19
- National Swine Registry Fall Classic Hog Conference – 2015-11-18
- Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo – 2015-10-15
- Simmons Center Fall Festival Craft Fair – 2015-09-25
As you can see, the order is alphabetical by the first letter.
Thread Starter mkormendy
(@mkormendy)

10 years, 6 months ago
I have resolved my problem .. I found this piece of code in my theme was sorting all of my custom post types alphabetically.
```
function modify_query_order( $query ) {
    if ($query->is_tax() || (!$query->is_post_type_archive() && !$query->is_post_type_archive())) {
        $query->set( 'orderby', 'title' );
        $query->set( 'order', 'ASC' );
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'modify_query_order');
```

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