Posts are showing up in ascending order

can you post a direct link to the web page where this happens?

I checked the ‘events’ category archive page, and the post order seems to be normal with the latest post at the top.

Thanks for your quick response (unlike my own…) This would be at the main page under the headline “Upcoming Events”, but also under the link for events. The event on top shows a post for an event in August, and at the bottom the an event for December is showing. This is of course “event dates” and not publish dates, however the post for the top event was published back in July and the newest one is from earlier this month.

Many thanks for you assistance!

the direct link for ‘events’ is going to a page which is using a page template page-events.php

what is the full code of that page template?

Thanks to your guidance I was able to locate the code to modify. The order for both page-events.php and front-page.php had order set to ASC. This I changed to DESC which solved the problem.

Thanks again for brilliant help!

(Posted the code below incase it could help other rookies out there)

<h2>Upcoming events</h2>
                <hr>
                <?php
                $args = array(
                    'numberposts' => 5,
                    'meta_key' => 'start_date',
                    'orderby' => 'meta_value',
                    'order' => 'DESC', // Changed from ASC
                    'meta_query' =>array(
                        array(
                            'key' => 'show_on_front_page',
                            'value' => '1'
                        )

                    )
                );