tribe_get_events returns posts when it should not

[Greg Perham]

I have a recurring event tagged “featured” starting 2016-07-08 and ending on 2016-08-26. Today is 2016-10-20, and I have no other events with that tag. Nevertheless, this returns the first two events from 7/8 and 7/15:

tribe_get_events( array(
'eventDisplay' => 'list',
'posts_per_page' => 2,
'tag' => 'featured',
'start_date' => date( 'Y-m-d' )
) );

tribe_get_events should return nothing in this scenario.

[Josh]

Hey Greg,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

As a first test here, can you try changing the “date( ‘Y-m-d’ )” to “<span class=”pl-c1″>date</span>(<span class=”pl-s”><span class=”pl-pds”>'</span>Y-m-d<span class=”pl-pds”>'</span></span>)<span class=”pl-k”>.</span><span class=”pl-s”><span class=”pl-pds”>'</span> 00:00:00<span class=”pl-pds”>'” to see if that helps here. </span></span>

Alternatively, you could try using a meta_query there using the following options:

'key' => '_EventStartDate',
'value' => date('Y-m-d').' 00:00:00',
'compare' => '>=',
'type' => 'DATETIME'

Let me know if either of those approaches helps here.

Thanks!

[Greg Perham]

I can’t read your reply with all those spans

[Greg Perham]

Changing the date format does not help. I cannot use tribe_get_events. I am not marking resolved because the function should be fixed to behave as expected and as documented.

Ultimately wound up using

	$events = new WP_Query( array(
		'post_type'  => 'tribe_events',
		'tag'        => 'featured',
		'meta_query' => array(
			'key' => '_EventEndDate',
			'value' => date( 'Y-m-d 00:00:00' ),
			'compare' => '>=',
			'type' => 'DATETIME'
		),
		'posts_per_page' => 2,
	) );
	
	if( $events->have_posts() ) :
etc

[Josh]

Hey Greg,

I apologize for the confusion there with that previous response and the odd formatting there.

I’m glad you were able to find a solution here.

I did some further testing but I was unable to replicate the issue. If I use just:

https://gist.github.com/BeardedGinger/809353fe857ed2d50db7fde2edfe0c2a

It works and only pulls upcoming events (or in my case no events since I only tagged past events with the “featured” tag). If I remove the “eventDisplay” setting from being “list” then those past events get included.

This makes sense due to the way the filters are intended to work there. I’m curious if you maybe have some additional query alterations to possibly “suppress_filters” elsewhere on your site?

Thanks!

[Greg Perham]

Perhaps this was fixed in the recent minor update that came out a day or two after I created this topic. It’s now working as expected. I did verify the behavior on Twentysixteen with all other plugins disabled before posting.

[Josh]

Hey Greg,

Awesome! I’m glad this has been resolved.

There may have been an unrelated issue that was addressed in that that fixed this particular issue here.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread for now. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to open a new one.

Thanks!

[Author]

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