Hide past events by day and time, not just day

you can try this tutorial for custom scope – https://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/create-your-own-event-scope/

Has anyone found a working example for this? I can’t figure out how to make this scope, where to put the code and change it for the time, like the OP asked.

So this is probably my fault, but I think I asked this right before I updated the plugin (or maybe the update came shortly after my question? I’m not sure?), but things seem to be working how I want them to without creating the custom scope and just using the default “future” for scope.

That said, I still wanted to try playing with the custom scope thing, so thank you angelo, for providing the tutorial link! I think I could really fine tune with that should the need arise in the future!

tse11, here’s something I was trying based on the tutorial above. It seemed to work, though I honestly didn’t test much beyond “Yay, I seemed to get the expected results.”
You’ll probably have to make a few edits to the MySQL bits to fit your needs. You can put it in your theme’s functions.php file:

//custom scope conditions
add_filter( ’em_events_build_sql_conditions’, ‘my_em_scope_conditions’,1,2);
function my_em_scope_conditions($conditions, $args){
//scope “future-hours”
if( !empty($args[‘scope’]) && $args[‘scope’]==’future-hours’ ){
//get the current date
$start_date = date(‘Y-m-d’,current_time(‘timestamp’));

//get the current time
$start_time = date(‘H:i:s’,current_time(‘timestamp’));

//find all events starting >= to the current date with an end time > than the current time
$conditions[‘scope’] = ” (event_start_date >= CAST(‘$start_date’ AS DATE) AND event_end_time > CAST(‘$start_time’ AS TIME))”;
}
return $conditions;
}

//add custom scope “future-hours” to list of available scopes
add_filter( ’em_get_scopes’,’my_em_scopes’,1,1);
function my_em_scopes($scopes){
$my_scopes = array(
‘future-hours’ => ‘Future by Hours’
);
return $scopes + $my_scopes;
}

Jrvin, that is excellent! Thank you so much for taking the time to help and reply. I will try this. I agree, the update does solve some issues but for me not all as far as time. ??