How to go about querying all events that have already ended

  • I am looking to do a wp_query for all events that already have finished, what field attribute do i check against today to see if the event is already over, is it different for recurring events?

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  • Thread Starter shuangmiles

    (@shuangmiles)

    I tried to do it like this but got no results



?// WP_Query arguments to find events that have ended

? ? $query_args = array(

? ? ? ? 'post_type' => 'event', // Custom post type name

? ? ? ? 'posts_per_page' => -1, // Retrieve all events, or specify a specific number

? ? ? ? 'meta_query' => array(

? ? ? ? ? ? array(

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 'key' => 'event_end_date', // Name of the custom field

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 'value' => $current_date, // Compare against today's date

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 'compare' => '<', // Look for dates before today

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 'type' => 'DATE', // Specify the data type for comparison

? ? ? ? ? ? ),

? ? ? ? ),

? ? ? ? 'orderby' => 'meta_value', // Order by the event_end_date

? ? ? ? 'order' => 'DESC', // Order descending, so the most recent end date is first

? ? );

? ? $query = new WP_Query( $query_args );
    Thread Starter shuangmiles

    (@shuangmiles)

    I saw that I can do something like but how can I instead of outputting html elements to output the array of items i want to access like the event post id for instance and loop through each

    if ( class_exists(‘EM_Events’) ) {

            echo EM_Events::output( array(‘limit’ => -1,’orderby’ => ‘name’, ‘scope’ => ‘past’, array) );

        }

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