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KineticPulse
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January 5, 2017 at 4:57 am
My client wants to be able to manually order events within a category archive page. With regular custom posts I would do this by changing the loop query to ‘orderby’=>’menu_order’ and get them to amend the ‘sort order’ in the post or use a post re-ordering plugin. However, this doesn’t seem to be possible with Events – any plugin I use for drag & drop reordering doesn’t work for Events.
Can you suggest a way of allowing manual reordering of events?
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Josh
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January 6, 2017 at 9:14 am
Hi there,
Yes, there’s a hook that you can use to add support for the Menu Order option in the Page Attributes box of the Event Espresso event editor:
https://gist.github.com/joshfeck/982b124869afadd38f3ce19dedf8721a
You can add the above to a functions plugin or into your WordPress theme’s functions.php file.
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KineticPulse
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January 6, 2017 at 9:52 am
Unfortunately it seems to make no difference..
My code is
global $wp_query;
$args = array_merge( $wp_query->query_vars, array( 'orderby'=>'menu_order','order'=>'ASC' ) );
query_posts( $args );
But the page is still listing posts in post_date order
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Josh
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January 6, 2017 at 9:58 am
It will help to see that code in context, can you post that in a gist or paste bin?
Along with that, I should mention that the code in the gist only adds support for changing the menu order values within the event, so did you make sure the event posts have menu_order values set?
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KineticPulse
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January 6, 2017 at 10:02 am
Sure – I’ve manually added sort order to some events to test, and the code is on the taxonomy-espresso_event_categories.php template
https://gist.github.com/bathdrummer/5c956aecb80bf6aaa15351944d9235d4
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Josh
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January 6, 2017 at 10:02 am
Oh and for what it’s worth, it’s recommended to use get_posts() instead of query_posts().
https://developer.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/querying-posts-without-query_posts/
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Josh
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January 6, 2017 at 12:00 pm
OK thanks, so you can remove the call to query_posts() from the template, and the add a filter function to a functions file that hooks into the
pre_get_posts hook that will set the orderby for category archives.
https://gist.github.com/joshfeck/982b124869afadd38f3ce19dedf8721a#file-set_tax_query_orderby-php
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KineticPulse
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January 6, 2017 at 3:24 pm
Brilliant, works perfectly. Thanks!
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