Querying Pending/ Draft Events

[colin]

When events are created via community events they are created with a draft status however when i query an event by it’s post id it will not appear in the query even if i set the status. do you have a solution for this. on event_tribe function which returns event data for a give post id regardless of status

$event_id = 1001;
$args = array(
‘p’ => $event_id,
‘numberposts’ => -1,
‘post_type’ => ‘tribe_events’,
‘post_status’ => array(‘draft’,)
);
$query = new WP_Query();
$posts = $query->query( $args );

[George]

Hey Colin,

Thanks for reaching out here. First, if you already have the Event ID, then does the simpler function get_post() work for you? Like this:

$post = get_post( 1001 );

That example assumes that 1001 is your post ID. You can learn more about the get_post() function here → https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post

If you’re only querying for one event post, I really recommend just using get_post() instead of WP_Query.

If you want to use WP_Query instead, then one thing I noticed about the code you posted here was a typo for the ‘post_status’ parameter. In the code you posted, it looked like this:

‘post_status’ => array(‘draft’,)

That extra comma after the word ‘draft’ could be causing problems, so make sure it’s just this:

'post_status' => array( 'draft' )

Let us know if any of this information helps!

Cheers,
George

[colin]

get_post($event_id) does the trick thanks

[George]

Nice! Best of luck with your project Colin, cheers.

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