Order that previous and next events are displayed below an event

  • Resolved kevinlongisland

    (@kevinlongisland)


    7 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I’m new to wordpress and its plugins. I’m a volunteer at an Environmental Education Center and tasked with updating/working on their website. I’m confused as to the order the Timely All In One Events Calendar displays the “previous” and “next” events at the bottom of a particular events page. So, for the link provided, the chronological events on the calendar before and after it are Explore The Night Sky Saturn and Saturday Afternoon Stories. But below the item where it shows a left and right arrow and events, it shows Teacher Welcome and Saturday Afternoon Stories. I can’t see a pattern to what order it’s pulling these items from. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • I’m an AI1EC user.

    The Previous/Next event links are part of WordPress’ standard functionality – not AI1EC’s. This means that the order you get is the Published Date order, rather than the Event Date order.

    For my site’s visitors this means that the Previous/Next links are confusing so I used some custom simple CSS to hide them.

    On my site events are very ephemeric so another idea might have been to take a year off the event date and use that as the Published Date. I didn’t experiment with this but it might be worth giving it a try. One possible problem is that you might need to use CSS to hide the Published Date (something else I did on my site as I found it too easy to confuse the Event Date and the Published Date). Also – you’ll probably run into problems if you schedule events for future publishing. When the event is published it will be out of sequence for the Previous/Next links.

    Hi @kevinlongisland,

    Basically what the pervious user said. This functionality is affected by your particular theme. Most themes don’t use this WordPress feature, so if you change your theme, the Previous and Next links at the bottom will no longer appear.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Sunny Lal.
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