Different order for Future and past events

Got it.

In Events -> Settings -> Formatting (tab) -> Events Categories (accordeon)

I put for past events:

[events_list category=”#_CATEGORYPASTEVENTS” scope=”past” order=”desc” orderby=”event_start_date” pagination=1]

Based on a message I found and changed a bit to fit my needs on this forum 1 year ago.

So the above does not work for all categories I guess I need to find a way to get current category id but it seems I cannot. Any help?

So I thought I would output the last segment of the URL into a shortcode and use this for the categories filter but in no avail.

I use this in functions.php

function get_last_url_segment() {
    $current_url = home_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    $url_segments = explode('/', trim(parse_url($current_url, PHP_URL_PATH), '/'));
    if (defined('ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE')) {
        $current_language = ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE;
        if (!empty($current_language)) {
            $url_segments = array_filter($url_segments, function($segment) use ($current_language) {
                return $segment !== $current_language;
            });
        }
    }
    $last_segment = end($url_segments);

    return $last_segment;
}
add_shortcode('last_url_segment', 'get_last_url_segment',5);

and in events manager:

[events_list category="[last_url_segment]" scope='past' order='desc' orderby='event_start_date' pagination=1]

But while the shortcode [last_url_segment] correctly outputs the slug outside their shortcode and if I enter it manually correctly picks up the category shortcode inside shortcode is not working.

So I think I got it. I used another function to nest the shortcodes

function events_list_with_last_url_segment($atts) {
    $atts = shortcode_atts(
        array(
            'scope' => 'past',
            'order' => 'desc',
            'orderby' => 'event_start_date',
            'pagination' => 1,
        ),
        $atts
    );

    $last_url_segment = get_last_url_segment();

    $events_list_shortcode = "[events_list category='$last_url_segment' scope='{$atts['scope']}' order='{$atts['order']}' orderby='{$atts['orderby']}' pagination='{$atts['pagination']}']";

    $events_list_output = do_shortcode($events_list_shortcode);

    return $events_list_output;
}
add_shortcode('events_list_with_last_url_segment', 'events_list_with_last_url_segment');

and in plugin:

[events_list_with_last_url_segment]

But ill leave this open in case someone has a better way.