Sort Order not working

Hi Alex, thanks for your reply.

I have just set up the following sort options in the Event Settings…

The ‘Recommended’ sort option as Spotlight > Rating > Event Date
The ‘Featured’ sort option as Spotlight > Featured > Event Date

Those are exactly how I need them to be.

I want to use ‘Recommended’ sort on the Top Picks widget on the home page.
I want to use ‘Featured’ as default sort on category / archive pages.

Here are the problem I’m having…

1) The ‘Recommended’ sort option isn’t available as an option for me to select under appearance > widgets in the WP Admin.

2) The ‘Featured’ sort is on the category/archive page by default, but is putting the Spotlight listings first, then followed by event date. Featured listings aren’t appearing second like they should be. Example here:
https://whatsonhub.co.uk/events/category/nightlife/united-kingdom/kingston-upon-hull/
‘Funny Friday’ is first as it should be. But the second item in the list should be ‘New Year’s Eve with Comedy Hypnotist’. Instead it’s third.

3) This recurring event here: https://whatsonhub.co.uk/events/united-kingdom/kingston-upon-hull/the-little-mermaid/ is marked as ‘featured’ but isn’t appearing at all in any of those 2 sorting options. It only appears in the listings when it’s sorted by other sorting options i.e. rating, event date.

Can you help me please?

Thanks,
Dave

Just going back to issue 1)…

Even though the sort has now appeared as an option to select in the home page widget, it’s not working correctly. It’s putting the ‘Spotlight’ listings first, but it should then be sorting by highest rating, but it’s not.
https://whatsonhub.co.uk/city/united-kingdom/kingston-upon-hull/

Thanks,
Dave