Sorting Events Calendar with Views

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Last updated by Luo Yang 6 years, 3 months ago.

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October 17, 2018 at 4:42 pm #1129296

jennyleeS

We are using a plugin named The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe. Is there a way for Views to sort on the event date field provided by this plugin? Currently it's sorting by post date, which is not useful.

We have coders on staff, so a programatic solution is OK.

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October 18, 2018 at 3:33 am #1129549

Luo Yang

Hello,

Yes, it is possible to sort the view's result by event date field.
The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe plugin is using some hidden custom fields to store the date values.

For example, you can try these:
1) Dashboard-> Toolset-> Settings-> Front-end Content
In section "Hidden custom fields", click button "Select custom fields", enable option "_EventStartDate", and save

2) Create a post view, query "Event" posts, in section "Ordering", you will be able to see the option "_EventStartDate".