Trying to get "next upcoming event" but it's pulling wrong event…

[Trevor]

I have a section on my site where I’m trying to pull just the next upcoming event, but it’s like it’s skipping a bunch of events and pulling one from March.

You can see it here on the main page: http://harvestpensacola.com right where it says “CALENDAR”. And then on the events page, there are obviously other events that it’s not pulling. http://www.harvestpensacola.com/events/

Here is code: http://pastebin.com/2HmVkTum

[Trevor]

Anyone?

[Trevor]

Any news yet? I really need to get this fixed quickly.

[Rob]

Hey Trevor. Should have a response for you today. Apologies for the delay thus far, we generally don’t get on the forums over the weekends.

[Trevor]

This guys seems to have a similar issue: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-the-events-calendar-the-next-three-events-in-the-widget?replies=3

Could it be that there’s no sort by for the tribe_get_events() function that I’m using?

[Jonah]

Hi Trevor, the code you posted works fine for me. It’s pulling in my closest upcoming event on my local test site even when I have plenty of events after it.

I wonder if there’s some conflict with another plugin going or some script in your theme? Have you tried disabling some plugins to see if this fixes it? The site you posted loads very slow for me in Chrome so I wonder if this is related to the issue.

Another thing you could try is to just use WP_Query() and pass in tribe_events as the post type…

I hope that helps,
Jonah

[Trevor]

Hi Jonah,

Okay I will try using get_posts() to pull in the posts… how do I set the date to be after a certain date (or upcoming)?

[Trevor]

Okay Jonah, it’s definitely not a conflict… it’s something with the fact that the next event is a recurring event. It pulls the next events just fine if it’s just a regular, one-off event, but if it is a recurring event, it pulls the event, but the DATE is incorrect…

See here: http://www.harvestpensacola.com/
The event is listed as “Growth Track 401 – Dec 23”.

When if you look here: http://www.harvestpensacola.com/events/upcoming/
The event is correct, but the date should be Jan 29.

It’s like it’s pulling the wrong occurrance of the recurring event.

[Trevor]

Okay, I fixed it. In case others run into the same issue, I’ll post the solution.

Basically, recurring event occurrences have the same post ID, so if you pass an ID into functions like tribe_get_start_date() outside of the loop, you’ll get an unexpected result.

It works now if I set global $post, and then wp_reset_query() afterward, like so:
http://pastebin.com/BsYkidsS

Not sure if this is expected behavior, but it works now.

[Rob]

Thanks for the heads up, Trevor – glad to hear you got this figured out. Let me see if Jonah or anyone else on the team has a suggestion re: how we can workaround the post ID issue in the official code. That way if a fix is possible, we can get it in for 2.1 or a subsequent release.

[Joey Kudish]

Hi Trevor,

I’m a developer on the team here. As best as I can tell the function is working as intended and I don’t believe that what you’re doing is a hack or workaround, that’s how the function is intended to be used. Am I missing something?

[Trevor]

Yes I see that in the example functions you always declare global $post; and use setup_postdata(). I guess I didn’t realize that this was a requirement for the functions to work properly. Maybe make a note in the knowledge base that mentions they must be used with the global $post variable?

[Joey Kudish]

Hey Trevor,

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll pass that along to Rob so that he can update the docs.

Cheers

[Rob]

Thanks guys! Just a heads up that this has been updated per Trevor’s note.

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