Display via Custom Meta Field on post or custom post type

[calarttech]

Hello Tribe,

I have been doing a lot of work with your plugin recently and I figured out something that I would like to share and something that I am getting caught up on. Any feedback or help would be really appreciated.

I had my client purchase your plugin and for scheduling classes for technical training. I needed something that would work with the custom post types of courses. I realize that ECP makes its own CPT’s but I wanted to have a separation between temporal and “static” content. I then created a custom meta-fields named course ID that both CPT’s could share. I created the variable of $cpt_course_id and passed that in with the $get_posts query, spitting out 3 upcoming courses while on the single courses CPT page.

This is exactly what I need it to be doing with one exception. When I have a recurring event it repeats the same event and dates. For example, if I put a recurring setting on a CCNA course for the dates 15th, 16th, 17th it will just display all dates and permalinks for the course on the 15th.

Here is my code:

‘upcoming’,
‘posts_per_page’=>3,
‘meta_query’ => array(
array(
‘key’ => ‘_ecp_custom_6’,
‘value’ => $cpt_course_id,
)
)
) );

foreach($get_posts as $post) { setup_postdata($post); ?>

<a href="” id=”post-“>
<a href="”>ID, true, ‘M j, Y’); ?>

Any help or advice is really appreciated.

Thanks!!!

[Rob]

Hey calarttech. Sorry that this one has slipped through the cracks – it’s on our radar now and I’m committed to helping get it addressed. While this is a bit outside my area of expertise I have it on the list for one of our more dev-minded team members, so we can try to point you in the right direction from there.

We’ll get you a reply in as timely a fashion as possible. Thanks for your support and patience in the interim.

[Barry]

Hi calarttech – unfortunately this forum isn’t the best at dealing with code – it’s much better to share code by adding it to a service like Gist or Pastebin and dropping the link in here (I suspect we’re missing some of what you wrote, for instance).

However, I suspect you may be using a WordPress API function to retrieve those posts … for events can you instead try using tribe_get_events()? That might help to ensure you get back event posts organized in a more meaningful manner.

Thanks (apologies also for the delay)!

[Author]

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