Title: Sorting Events by Start Date
Last modified: March 12, 2019

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# Sorting Events by Start Date

 *  Resolved [jagudesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jagudesign/)
 * (@jagudesign)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-events-by-start-date/)
 * How can we sort the events by start date? Currently, there is no option to sort
   the events by start date in the frontend. We can sort by event created date.
   
   Please help us asap.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsorting-events-by-start-date%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Ed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erishel/)
 * (@erishel)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-events-by-start-date/#post-11401153)
 * Hey there,
 * Thanks for reaching out 😄
 * Sorry for the wait! We’ve been experiencing a high volume of support requests.
 * Though I’m limited to the amount of support I can provide for customizations,
   I’ll give you a snippet to get started with:
 *     ```
       $args = array(
       		'post_type' => 'tribe_events',
       		'posts_per_page' => 3,
       		'orderby' => '_EventStartDate',
       		'order' => 'DESC'
       );
       query_posts($args);
       ```
   
 * Hope that helps!
 * Take care,
    Ed 🤟

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## Tags

 * [events](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/events/)
 * [sorting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sorting/)
 * [start date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/start-date/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erishel/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-events-by-start-date/#post-11401153)
 * Status: resolved