Reoccuring event shows multiple times in loop

[Michael]

@Marty: Brilliant, thank you!

[Rob]

Thanks for sharing your results, Marty. They were useful to Michael and will serve useful to anyone else who comes with a similar request down the road. Cheers.

[Simon]

Thanks for sharing this, but I’m having trouble seeing where @Marty’s code would be applied.
Here’s the code I’m working with: http://pastebin.com/XxvJWHfZ
Where would I insert @Marty’s code?

[Rob]

Hey Simon: sorry that this thread has slipped through the cracks until now. Are you still having issues here or did you get this figured out? Let us know and we’ll follow-up as needed.

[Marty]

I’m not sure the solution I posted above is bullet proof. I haven’t gone too deep into it yet, but it seems that there are cases when instances of an event may become separated from the others and given their own post ID.

Perhaps someone can shed more light on this?

[Rob]

Hey Marty, thanks for the heads up. Any pattern to the events that are being separated out?

[Marty]

Hi. Yes, a new ID is created anytime you make a change that does not affect every recurrence. For example, if you make a change to the 2nd instance of a recurring event and choose “Future Events” when saving, that instance (and all future instances) will be given a different ID than the 1st entry. Same if you were to choose “This Event Only” — that instance would be given a unique ID.

Moving forward I’m going to pick up the trail left by Cliff, above.

[Rob]

Ah, gotcha. There are certain changes made to events that are always going to break them out of the recurrence pattern – changing the event name, for example. Could that be the cause here?

[Kenny]

Hi all, I’m also trying to show just one instance of a recurring event in the loop and I’m not sure how to apply Marty’s code to mine: http://pastebin.com/YXfLLg7x

I’d love some guidance here, thanks!

[Kenny]

Hi all, I’m also trying to show just one instance of a recurring event in the loop and I’m not sure how to apply Marty\’s code to mine: http://pastebin.com/YXfLLg7x

I’d love some guidance here, thanks!

[Rob]

Hey Kenny. Thanks for the note here; no guarantees we’ll be able to assist as we didn’t write that code to begin with, but let me see whether our dev Jonah can point you in the right direction when he hits the forums next. Stay tuned!

[Kenny]

Understood Rob thanks; my fingers are crossed.

[Kenny]

UPDATE: I figured it out. Here is how I was able to use Marty’s code to display just one instance of a recurring event:

First, don’t use tribe_get_events(). Use instead WP_Query().
After that it was easy, here’s the code:
http://pastebin.com/kpaEUDZA

Thanks Marty!

[Jonah]

Hey Kenny,

Looks good! Thanks for working this out, I’m sure it will help others 🙂 Let me know if there’s anything else I can do here.

Cheers,
– Jonah

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