How can I re-order events?

Events are sorted chronologically by default. Starting with the earliest, ending the latest. I think what you’re after is to hide past events (see Settings > Event Organiser).

If you just reverse the order you’ll end up with the ‘future most’ events first. So an event next year will appear before an event tomorrow.

Hi Stephen, Yes that’s what I want – the newest events at the top.

I don’t want to hide older events, I’d like them to be visible when you scroll down (or click next if on a single event). Will the ‘hide past events’ achieve this?

Sounds like once hidden they’ll no longer show…

Well here’s the code for reversing the order of events:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'marzypann_reorder_event_archive', 15 );
function marzypann_reorder_event_archive( $query ){

     if( $query->is_main_query() && is_post_type_archive( 'event' ) ){
         $query->set( 'orderby', 'eventstart' );
         $query->set( 'order', 'DESC' );
     }
}

But I’m not sure what you mean by newest. As mentioned above, an event next week will then appear after an event next year.

If you want events to be ordered by publish date you can change the above orderby to:

$query->set( 'orderby', 'date' );

though if doing that with recurring events, I’d suggest grouping events too.

I’m new to playing with code, can you tell me where these would go – in what .php file exactly?

Also, can I copy and paste these as they are? (I see you have added my username ‘Marzypann’ in the code, but that isn’t my admin name for my site).

No worries, fixed.