Past events — how to exclude them

[David]

Hi,

I looked around for a way to fix this but am not finding anything.

Our Event Calendar is showing a “Previous Events” link on the bottom of our first page of events, which, when clicked, shows events that are over.

We don’t want visitors to see the past events, but want to keep them in the back end. Is there a way to only have it show future events and, ideally, not display the link to previous events until we’re on page 2 of the future events listings, but still have the past event viewable in the admin?

Thanks
Dave

[Nico]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for reaching out to us on this! I can help you here…

Is there a way to only have it show future events and, ideally, not display the link to previous events until we’re on page 2 of the future events listings, but still have the past event viewable in the admin?

So, you want to hide past events from the site I get that he, but I’m not sure about what you mention regarding the previous events link, to show only in page 2. You mean that if the user is in the future he/she should be able to paginate to more recent upcoming events, but never see the ones before today?

Please let me know about it and I’ll create a snippet to get those out of the site if possible,
Best,
Nico

[David]

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[Nico]

Thanks for following up Dave, I get you now 🙂

Can you try with this snippet (from a past thread):

/* Tribe hide past events in the frontend */

add_filter('tribe_events_pre_get_posts', 'filter_tribe_all_occurences', 100);

function filter_tribe_all_occurences ($wp_query) {
if ( !is_admin() ) {
$new_meta = array();
$today = new DateTime();

// Join with existing meta_query
if(is_array($wp_query->meta_query)) {
$new_meta = $wp_query->meta_query;
}

// Add new meta_query, select events ending from now forward
$new_meta[] = array(
'key' => '_EventEndDate',
'type' => 'DATETIME',
'compare' => '>=',
'value' => $today->format('Y-m-d H:i:s')
);

$wp_query->set( 'meta_query', $new_meta );
}
return $wp_query;
}


Please let me know if it works for you,
Best,
Nico

[David]

Hi Nico, this didn’t work unfortunately. 🙁

I’ve set the past event to ‘Draft’ which alleviates the problem. How about this — is there a way to automagically set events that are over to ‘Draft’ rather than having to go in and do it manually?

[Nico]

Hey Dave,

Sorry to hear this didn’t work for you 🙁

I tested it in my local test site and it works as expected. Can you test this with default theme making sure you move the snippet to the correct functions file?

I think the suggested solution is better than the draft option which will surely be more complicated to instrument.

Please give this a try with default theme and let me know if it works in that scenario,
Thanks,
Nico

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[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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