Calendar Sort Order Ascending displays as Descending

Hi @eugenefraxby,

Did you try a default theme like Rookie or Twenty Seventeen?

Thanks,
Savvas

Sorry now the site is live I’ve been wary of switching themes due to some permissions error when I revert back that I’ve not got to the bottom of yet. But what the heck I went for it (and I have reverted back ok despite the error ?? ). It does indeed sort correctly as ascending on Twenty Sixteen so I’ll have another look through my custom theme code.

If you have any pointers as to what typically causes this in custom themes please let me know.

Many thanks for your quick response.

Hi @eugenefraxby,

Well for start I was going to search for any DESC appearance!

Also it worth to look for a file called single-list.php.

Thanks,
Savvas

single-list.php isn’t present anywhere in my installation. Neiter child nor champion theme folders.

I don’t have shell access on my hosting so have used one of these crude php search scripts to search for ‘ DESC ‘. A lot of noise in the search output but doesn’t seem to be any culprits. Really though in my child theme there aren’t many files so I have gone through those individually. Could be the web devs have edited a file within the Champion parent theme.

It’s a strange one, probably will end up being something really simple/obvious but just difficult to detect.

Hi!

Thanks for your reply.

At this point, it’s worth contacting the theme authors, as we don’t know how the theme is coded.

If they don’t have the single-list.php file, you’ll probably need to check other files such as the single.php, index.php but it could be anywhere really (using custom functions).

Thanks!

I did another test. In theme customisation changed Event List Layout from Theme Default to Sportspress Customizable. This also correctly sorts future calendar by ASC. But that layout won’t work for me so I need to get my Theme Default working.

Do you know if below are the correct files to target?
(I can see $order is set to ‘default’ then pulled in from the calendar setting, though I can’t see it used in a list sort)

If so I will do comparisons between mychildtheme and champion for the differences (which are minor I think), then if necessary champion and sportpress templates.

/wp-content/themes/mychildtheme/sportspress
event-list-theme.php

/wp-content/themes/champion/sportspress
event-list-theme.php
event-list.php

/wp-content/plugins/sportspress/templates
event-list.php

My betwill go to change the `/wp-content/themes/mychildtheme/sportspress
event-list-theme.php`.

But you have to talk with your theme developers, even the Champion ones at https://themeforest.net/item/champion-soccer-football-wordpress-theme/9451661 (it had update actually one week ago)

We can’t help you more in that unfortunately…

Thanks,
Savvas

No problem thanks. My theme developers are no more as they have shut down their business but it’s closely based on Champion so I should be ok working things out from there before contacting the Champion devs.

Thanks again

Hi!

That’s unfortunate. I hope you are able to achieve this though. Sometimes the theme devs can still at least reply to your question on whether or not that’s possible to change or point out which files you’ll need to edit.

Thanks!