NOTA BENE: WE WILL BE WITHDRAWING THIS PLUGIN 1 APRIL 2023, SO IF YOU ARE PLANNING EVENTS FOR 2023 PLEASE ACTIVATE THE NEW EVENTS CALENDAR PLUGIN
Some people liked the old events tool as it uses a post to announce an event. No extra functions were necessary. When the post slides down the list this can be confusing in a list of posts, so you are better off displaying events separately in a list via a shortcode or the block.
WordPress lists posts in reverse chronological order, so the most recent post will always appear first in a list, unless you’ve chosen to make an older post sticky, so that it will trump the aforementioned rule.
Few of the tricks that you can deploy, such as tweaking the publication date are not entirely satisfactory workarounds.
To display events using the event manager plugin there are now 3 solutions.
- You can add an event widget to a sidebar or the main content and tune the settings to taste – though widgets and sidebars are a bit out of fashion
- Create a separate page for all of your events (again add via a shortcode or the event block)
- And, optionally, having just activated the new plugin, ensure that the events integration option is selected in the settings
The latter doesn’t fix the wordpress chronology problem, but helpfully integrates events and posts.