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August 21, 2012 at 1:48 pm

What you are talking about are two different things and how you handle it would depend on which of these things you want to do.

The Add Post for This Event option will create a blog post for the event. This is in addition to the regular event you just created. The [EVENT_LIST] shortcode has nothing to do with blog posts — it only displays events. So, how you would choose to display and organize the event posts would happen in your theme by manipulating the WordPress loop or creating a custom page, or putting all of those in a category, or using the Custom Post Type option in Event Espresso and splitting those off into separate Espresso Event Posts so they are not handled the same as blog posts.

However, displaying a list of events with their title, date, and a brief description can be done without creating blog posts or event posts at all. [EVENT_LIST] already does half of that, the other half would be done by manipulating the [EVENT_LIST] shortcode and using the <!-- more --> tag…

In your event, write up your description and add a <!-- more --> tag somewhere in the description where you want the short description to end. On your Template Settings page, be sure you set “Display Short Descriptions in event listings” is set to Yes.

To limit the number of events that display on the page, use this shortcode:

 [EVENT_LIST limit=5]

or

 [EVENT_LIST events_per_page=5]

if you want to add pagination to your mini event list.

August 23, 2012 at 9:11 pm

Yes, the position of the event parameters can be controlled from within the Event Espresso template files.

You can sort the data using the “order_by” parameter of the EVENT_LIST shortcode. Eg. [EVENT_LIST order_by=date(start_date),id]

September 6, 2012 at 1:48 am

Have you tried changing order_by=date(start_date) to order_by=date(end_date)?

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