somehow Events Calendar Pro is breaking my WP_Query

[Davide]

I am trying to put some “related posts” into my single-post.php.
I am setting WP_Query with ‘post_type’ => ‘post’ , but somehow the query is executed with ‘post_type’ => array(‘post’,’tribe_events’).
AAARGHHH this is driving me crazy…

[Barry]

Hi – I’m sorry you’re facing difficulties here.

Though the amount of help we can offer with custom code is admittedly limited we might be able to offer a pointer in the right direction.

Can you provide a little more detail though? What is the actual code you have put in place (if you can share via a link to Pastebin/Gist/similar that would be great) and when and how is it called?

Thanks!

[Davide]

Hi Barry,
thank you for your reply… here is my code: http://pastebin.com/fqanAnyb
This code is from my functions.php, and I call rm_related_posts(get_the_ID()); in my single-post.php.
Uncommenting line 21-22-23, I can see that somehow WP_Query has been modified adding ‘tribe_events’ to the ‘post_type’ parameter.
DV

[Barry]

Thanks!

Yes, that ‘s exactly what happens (the event post type is added to the query) as events also make use of regular post tags – so this is actually expected behaviour. What you could do though is also define the following functions:

function stick_to_posts() {
	add_action( 'parse_query', 'force_post_type_to_posts', 60 );
}

function force_post_type_to_posts( $query ) {
	remove_action( 'parse_query', 'force_post_type_to_posts', 60 );
	$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post' ) );
}

Then, at the top of your rm_related_posts() function (right above $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post_id)) add:

stick_to_posts();

Does that help with this?

[Davide]

GRANDE Barry! It worked.
Thank you so much!

[Barry]

Awesome, happy to help!

I’ll go ahead and close this thread – but if we can help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed … also – if you have a moment and wanted to leave a review, that would be great – we always love to hear about people’s experiences with The Events Calendar 🙂

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