Remove Duplicates from Upcoming Events List

[Beth Bucciferro]

I have an event that is entered for performances on the same day at different times and I only want it to appear once for that date on the upcoming events list they are not Recurrences but Stand alone events. Is there a way to select distinct post_title from the query so it will appear once no matter how many times it is set to appear over the course of days?
I thought I could use pre_get_post but I don’t know how to ask for distinct post_title.

[Barry]

Hi Beth,

I think you’re basically on the right track but perhaps what you need to do is build a list of post IDs that you wish to exclude, and then add those to the query via a post__not_in argument?

[Beth Bucciferro]

Barry

Are there any examples you could point me to that could help in this process?

Thanks
Beth

[Barry]

Hi Beth,

I don’t have any specific examples to hand, I’m afraid, and as this is customization territory it’s really something we’d need to leave in your hands (bearing in mind you will need to be responsible for the code’s future maintenance) 🙂

The Codex itself is probably the best source of information on using post__not_in but essentially you would use it to provide an array of post IDs for exclusion:

$args = array(
    /* ... other args ... */
    'post__not_in' => array( 10, 20, 30 ),
    /* ...more args ...*/
);

Of course you’d probably want to create the array of IDs dynamically and would create a separate query for that.

[Barry]

Hi!

It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this topic.

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Thanks!

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