[Cheryl]

Hi Barry,
We have moved our WP database to a ‘less busy’ server according to the host. Hopefully this will help. I wanted to check with you and see if you might have suggestions or guidelines regarding these long-term recurring events because I felt that having these events with over 350 occurrences might not be the best for performance based on posts I’ve read here on the forum. The only idea I had was to maybe limit how far out the end date could go, such as maybe six months from the start date, something like that.

Thanks for your help.

[Cheryl]

Hi Barry,
Thanks for your continued attention to this. Everything is working fine today. Go figure! I’m not sure what changed, but I’ll take it!

Thanks again!

[Cheryl]

OK, things have improved. I am getting the ‘hidden’ upcoming events when I use the tribe_get_events function, but I am missing one event that has a custom recurrence. It recurs weekly on Tuesday – Saturday ending on 2012-11-30 and looks like this in the _EventRecurrence field on the database:

a:13:{s:4:”type”;s:6:”Custom”;s:8:”end-type”;s:2:”On”;s:3:”end”;s:10:”2012-11-30″;s:9:”end-count”;s:1:”1″;s:11:”custom-type”;s:6:”Weekly”;s:15:”custom-interval”;s:1:”1″;s:16:”custom-type-text”;s:11:”Week(s) on:”;s:21:”occurrence-count-text”;s:5:”event”;s:15:”custom-week-day”;a:5:{i:0;s:1:”2″;i:1;s:1:”3″;i:2;s:1:”4″;i:3;s:1:”5″;i:4;s:1:”6″;}s:19:”custom-month-number”;s:5:”First”;s:16:”custom-month-day”;s:1:”1″;s:24:”custom-year-month-number”;s:1:”1″;s:21:”custom-year-month-day”;s:1:”1″;}

My search is for today thru 2012-11-18. I do get this one with the WP_Query but not the tribe_get_events.

[Cheryl]

Thanks for the reply.

I changed the display type to ‘all’ and got the same result. I removed the dates altogether, and got the same results.

When I used the WP_Query class, and used the meta_query parameter in the arguments to compare the _EventStartDate and _EventEndDate fields against my input dates, I noticed by dumping the contents of the resulting object that the query was using current date to select events instead of my input dates in the query.

This is how I did the meta parameter piece:
‘meta_query’ => array(
‘relation’ => ‘AND’,
array(
‘key’ => ‘_EventEndDate’,
‘value’ => $startdate,
‘compare’ => ‘>=’,
),
array(
‘key’ => ‘_EventStartDate’,
‘value’ => $enddate,
‘compare’ => ‘<=',
),
where $startdate and $enddate are in Y-m-d H:i:s format.

By using the WP_Query class, without any meta parameters, I can get all of the events from today onward and then filter those with additional code to select the date range required. However, I noticed when I examined the object that the query has injected some selection criteria which excludes events that have the "hide from upcoming" meta data, even though I didn't specify anything about that in my query parameters. I would like to get all published events in the range for this query.

So, that's where I'm at.

[Cheryl]

Me again. Here’s the relevant code where $startdate and $enddate are in Y-m-d format:

$taxomonies = array(‘relation’ => ‘IN’);

if ( isset($events)) {
$array1 = array(
‘taxonomy’ => ‘tribe_events_cat’,
‘field’ => ‘id’,
‘terms’ => $events
);

$taxonomies[] = $array1;
}

$args = array(
array(
‘start_date’ => $startdate,
‘end_date’ => $enddate,
‘posts_per_page’ => -1,
),
‘tax_query’ => $taxonomies,
);

global $posts;
$get_posts = tribe_get_events($args );

[Cheryl]

Hello. I am also having a problem with this function. The end_date parameter works fine, but the start_date always starts from today instead of using my input date, which is in Y-m-d format. I’n not using the eventDisplay parameter.

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