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Kyle Nel
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October 29, 2014 at 4:19 am
Hi Folks, running the latest version of EE 4.4.3.p on WordPress 4.0.
I would like to provide the option to manually sort the events on the event archive for a site.
Have you got a recommended suggestion for doing this?
Thank you.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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October 29, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Hi Kyle,
The closest option to this would be to cluster events within a category. Then several of these category shortcodes could be added to a WordPress page:
[ESPRESSO_EVENTS category_slug=”featured-events-1″]
[ESPRESSO_EVENTS category_slug=”featured-events-2″]
[ESPRESSO_EVENTS category_slug=”featured-events-3″]
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Lorenzo
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Kyle Nel
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October 30, 2014 at 3:33 am
Hi Lorenzo, thanks for the response.
The problem I have with the shortcodes (and the main reason I am sticking with archives for the site) is that I can’t see how to modify the design and layout of the events in a shortcode.
I have modified the archive to display each event within an accordian, I wouldn’t know how to make a shortcode do this. Any suggestions?
Thank you.
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Dean
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October 30, 2014 at 5:56 am
You could create a custom query instead and add it to a page template – here’s an example query https://gist.github.com/joshfeck/e3c9540cd4ccc734e755
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Kyle Nel
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November 12, 2014 at 3:29 am
Hi Dean, thank you very much for your previous advice and I have done exactly what you said. I used that custom query to generate the list of events on my event archive. It works a treat…until I try to introduce a meta_key and try to sort by that. It simply displays this as normal. Here is my slightly modified query:
$atts = array(
‘title’ => NULL,
‘limit’ => 100,
‘css_class’ => NULL,
‘show_expired’ => TRUE,
‘month’ => NULL,
‘category_slug’ => $currentCategory,
‘meta_key’ => ‘order’,
‘order_by’ => ‘meta_value_num’,
‘sort’ => ‘ASC’
);
global $wp_query;
$wp_query = new EE_Event_List_Query( $atts );
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
Is there something wrong with using meta values for sorting in this way?
Cheers folks
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Seth Shoultes
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November 12, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Hello Kyle,
I’m not sure ‘meta_value_num’ is available in this query.
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Josh
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November 12, 2014 at 1:56 pm
Hi there,
Yeah, the the meta value gets filtered out. You can use the post_orderby filter instead. Here’s a good answer from stackexchange that may help:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/15629
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Kyle Nel
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November 13, 2014 at 4:31 am
Thank you Josh. I got that working mostly. I am still working out how to make that work with a numerical field – the example works with meta_value which sorts alphabetically and replacing meta_value_num in this code doesn’t seem to work.
Unfortunately this leads to values of 1, 11, 111 appearing before 2 and 22 etc. I got around this by starting the numbering at 10 or 100.
Just thought that information might be useful to other members if they come across this same situation.
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Josh
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November 13, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Hi Kyle,
Here’s another related Stackexchange thread that may help.
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/13129/wordpress-orderby-numeric-value-not-working
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