Display a List of Events with "Month Year" Headers with Low Events

Question

We have a channel with events in it, and are utilizing Low Events. The design calls for a list of events, with Month Year as a heading, such as this:

January 2014

• Event 1 Details
• Event 2 Details

February 2014

• Event 3 Details
• Event 4 Details

... and so on.

I suspect I need to compare the month/year of entry i with that of entry i-1; if they're not the same, display the month/year of entry i. What's the best way of doing that?

It looks like EE has a native tag pair for handling this, {date_heading display="monthly"}, but that appears to be based on the entry_date, and not the value of my Low Events field. It appears that Low Events has the ability to sync the date of the events field with the entry_date, but would prefer to keep them unrelated if possible.

Answer 1

Try using the :first modifier to generate those headings.

Answer 2

If that's a Stash build, you could simply use this method for ordering entries by month and then by year (or any variation). Used it on a recent build. Works flawlessly.