Upcoming events list displays passed events

[Sandro]

Hi,
I’ve a big problem, that I’ve been dragging around but could not fix for a while now.
Upcoming events list displays events from the previous day.

For example:
http://holiday.ge/en/events/category/tbilisi/upcoming/
SOLAR ECLIPSE / VAKO K @ Festival – Restaurant Divan

Start:
March 15, 2013 11:00 pm
End:
March 16, 2013 5:00 am

Right now it is 16th 3:32PM so this event is irrelevant by a long time now and should not be displaying on the list.

What can I do? How can this be fixed?

[Barry]

Hi Sandro,

Unfortunately this is a known bug as Jonah covered here – he also advised about a temporary workaround which can be used until 3.0 is released.

The only other alternatives that comes to mind would be to either customize the widget so that it does not display events that took place earlier in the day or else build a replacement widget that uses a different query.

[Sandro]

I see, thank you for the reply.
For the sheer volume of events that we have per day it will be impossible to use proposed solution.

I will try to build a custom query.

But when will 3.0 be out? I’ve heard about it 3 month ago already, approx. when are you gonna show it to us? 🙂

[Barry]

Soon 🙂

We can’t provide a firm date because we want to give it a good beta run in order to iron out the last few wrinkles – but it should be worth the wait.

[Sandro]

I see.

So I’ve two options now, get more posts and use end_date to filter out past events with php.
Or modify query, take get_posts and use it with orderby meta_key value combination.

But I looked into DB, and it seems second option is less viable. As events calendar doesn’t save end date as a separate value.
Any ideas how to make second option work?

[Barry]

I’m not quite sure I understand what you’re proposing for your second option, but I think the approach I would take is to filter the event query (testing first to see if the upcoming events list is being viewed) and changing the parameters accordingly.

However, we don’t have any snippets to offer up on this occasion.

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