List all upcoming programs, but not each individual occurrence

[Simon]

I’m looking to put together a page which lists all of our upcoming/ongoing programs. Is it possible to simply display 1 occurrence of each recurring program?

I’ve managed to call posts in a particular Events Calendar category, but the query is displaying every occurrence.

Here’s the code I’m currently using:

‘tribe_events_cat’,
‘post_type’=> ‘tribe_events’,
‘tag_ID’ => ‘7’
);
query_posts( $args ); ?>

[Jonah]

Hi Simon,

So you want to be able to display all instances of a particular reoccurring event or only 1?

Can you paste your code somewhere else like http://pastebin.com / http://pastie.org or http://gist.github.com so I can see what you’re working with?

Thanks,
Jonah

[Simon]

Jonah, I’m looking to setup a page that publishes only 1 instance of recurring events from a particular event category.

For instance, I’ve got a bunch of recurring events in the Summer Camp category – I want to have a page that lists all the different summer camps, but only want each of the camps to show once. If Kestrel Camp meets 14 times I only want it to displayed once on this particular page.

How would one use query_posts to display a particular category of Events Calendar events? Also, how would one use query_posts to display each event only once?

Thanks,
– Si

[Simon]

Here’s what I’m working with right now… It’s not working though … I’m yet to figure out how to query posts from a particular category within Events Calendar. Same with displaying each event only once.

http://pastebin.com/G8YtZWEH

[Jonah]

Hi Simon,

First, don’t use query_posts or get_posts for queries outside the loop. Those two query functions are more meant for modifying the current loop or getting post data to be used for other functions like in a plugin. Use WP_Query instead.

Another issue is you cannot use taxonomy as an argument like that, you’ve got to use tax_query and if you look at the third example for the tribe_get_events() function in our doco you can see how it is supposed to be used: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/the-events-calendar-template-tags-general-functions/#functiontribe_get_events

Another issue is you cannot tribe_meta_event_cats() as an argument. So if you clean up those things you should be able to get it to work.

Let me know if you need anything else with this.

Cheers,
Jonah

[Simon]

Sweet! Much better. Where would I find out how to display each program 1-time instead of # of event repetitions?

[Jonah]

Hi Simon,

Perhaps this is along the lines of what you are looking for to limit the display of recurring events: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/reoccuring-event-shows-multiple-times-in-loop/

Unfortunately there’s no other easy way to do this…

I hope that helps!

Cheers,
Jonah

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