[EventCalendar] Sort posts by event date...

[David Garlitz]

OK, I've found the answer! In case anyone is in the same boat as me,  
i.e. trying to set up a feed/category page/or other more elaborate  
post output than the one you get with ec3_get_events, the key is in  
the options panel option "Keep Events Separate." If you have selected  
"Events are Normal Posts," then they will be sorted according to post  
order. Change this to "Keep Events Separate," and a simple query to  
ec3_after=today will bring up posts in the order of the post date.

This distinction was not intuitively clear to me! I assumed that  
"Keep Events Separate" meant that they would only be displayed in the  
calendar or events list! It never occurred to me that it would also  
influence the sort order of the posts in other outputs! Something to  
include in the README, or perhaps to add to the admin interface (i.e.  
"Keep Events Separate (always sort by event date)")

Anyway, I'm glad to have found the solution, even if now I am kicking  
myself for how long it took to figure it out! Hopefully this posting  
to the mailing list will help others as well...

Dave



On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:14 AM, David Garlitz wrote:

> I need to be able to display all the posts in my events category  
> sorted by their event start date rather than post_date. I know that  
> this feature might already be on the way in the form of a patch or  
> in the next version, but does anyone have any temporary hacks for  
> this?
>
> Thanks!
> Dave