[Snippet] Query string for future events

Hi there,

I saw a few posts asking about how to build a query to show only the future events. A lot of page builders now use the WP loop so a query could be really useful. Hopefully this may be useful for someone.

Here’s the code:

$meta_query[] = array(
	'key'     => '_event_start_date',
	'value'   => date('Y-m-d'),
	'compare' => '>=',
);

$query = array(
	'post_type' => 'event',
	'posts_per_page' => '4',
	'post_status'  =>  'publish',
	'meta_key' => '_event_start_date',
	'orderby' => 'meta_value',
	'order' => 'ASC',
	'offset' => '0',
	'meta_query' => $meta_query
);

echo( http_build_query( $query ) );

And here’s the query it builded:
post_type=event&posts_per_page=4&post_status=publish&meta_key=_event_start_date&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC&offset=0&meta_query%5B0%5D%5Bkey%5D=_event_start_date&meta_query%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D=2021-10-14&meta_query%5B0%5D%5Bcompare%5D=%3E%3D