Pagination with past events list?

[Adam Abrams]

Hi Stephen!

My “Past events” link disappeared from my client’s site for some reason, so I’m attempting to restore it. I created (again!) a page called “Past events” containing this shortcode:

[eo_events event_end_before="today" order="desc" showpastevents=true numberposts=10]

I’ve also customized “shortcode-event-list.php” (a copy placed in my theme folder) to change from a bulleted list to just a list, add the excerpt, etc. So far so good.

BUT…. if I limit it to, say, 10 events, I don’t get any navigation to view more (i.e. “Newer events / Older events”).

I feel like I may be approaching this the wrong way altogether… I don’t recall having to edit the shortcode template before…. but it’s been a long time. Can you advise? Thanks!

Thanks!

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Adam,

The shortcode is for single page lists.

This url should show past events (assuming you have selected to for past events to be visible): http://yoursite.com/events/event/?event_end_before=now

[Adam Abrams]

Thanks Stephen! It was indeed the “Show past events” setting that was causing this behaviour.

One thing – past events are showing oldest-first… how can I reverse it so it starts with the most recently finished event and goes backwards instead?

[Adam Abrams]

Never mind that last question, I figured out how to reverse the order, using “orderby=eventstart” at the end of the URL:

https://website.com/events/event?event_end_before=now&orderby=eventstart

However… in order for these events to show up, I checked “Show past events” in EO settings.

But that causes past events to show even on my Upcoming Events page, reached via this URL:

https://website.com/events/event?event_end_after=now

Despite the query only requesting future events.

So, two questions:

1. How do I show future events only?
2. How do I have a different page title for the Past Events page?

Both are using archive-event.php (customized version in my theme folder), and the code below for the page title…

Thanks!

<header class="page-header">
    <h1 class="page-title">
            <?php
                if( eo_is_event_archive('day') )
                    //Viewing date archive
                    echo __('Events: ','eventorganiser').' '.eo_get_event_archive_date('jS F Y');
                elseif( eo_is_event_archive('month') )
                    //Viewing month archive
                    echo __('Events: ','eventorganiser').' '.eo_get_event_archive_date('F Y');
                elseif( eo_is_event_archive('year') )
                    //Viewing year archive
                    echo __('Events: ','eventorganiser').' '.eo_get_event_archive_date('Y');
                else
                    _e('Coming Attractions','eventorganiser');
            ?>
            </h1>
        </header>

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