Beaver Builder uses post date rather than event date

I’m working on a site that uses Beaver Builder/Beaver Themer. I want to use the BB ‘Posts’ module to display the last four events in a row on the front page. Unfortunately, the BB ‘Posts’ module uses the event creation date, rather that the event date, to determine what to display.

Does anyone have experience with this and has worked around it? BB has built-in support for another plugin (“The Events Calendar”), which eliminates this problem, but as the site is already using Sykes’ plugin (and because I already like and know it well), I’d like to stick with it.

H.

With “WP Events Manager”, I can do this (using either the BB Posts module or the UABB Advanced Posts module), but while I can get the correct event date to appear on the post, I cannot get the posts to show in order of event date – they show up in the order of the event *creation* date.

If I use “The Events Calendar”, I can get the event posts to show up correctly on the front page, but I cannot display past events on a page, because the plugin does not provide shortcodes in the free version (I’d be willing to pay a reasonable amount to use shortcodes, but I’m not willing to pay the full price for all the paid features, 99% of which I won’t use on this non-profit site).

Since “WP Events Manager” is very popular, I’m hoping you might have run into these questions before.

I guess my questions are:

1) Do you have any plans to support “WP Events Manager” similar to the way you do “The Events Calendar”?

2) Do you happen to know of a way I can either:

a) Get the BB Posts module to display events in order of event date rather than event creation date when using “WP Events Manager”?

[or]

b) Display ‘Past Events’ without a shortcode when using “The Events Calendar”?

3) Should I consider abandoning both and just making my own custom post types, since my use of the event plugin features is mostly limited to the calendar portion? (I have just slight experience with CPT).