{"id":1009326,"date":"2015-09-28T10:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/hiding-past-events-causes-event-start-date-to-equal-event-end-date\/"},"modified":"2015-09-29T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:13:12","slug":"hiding-past-events-causes-event-start-date-to-equal-event-end-date","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/hiding-past-events-causes-event-start-date-to-equal-event-end-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding past events causes event start date to equal event end date?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to hide past event from the front-end on one of my websites. An older forum post had a solution (https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-hide-past-events\/) that works perfectly except for one thing: when I add the new meta_query, the event start dates are somehow altered.<\/p>\n<p>For example, an event with a start date of Sept 30th and an end date of October 3rd displays in the list and single-event views as having a start and end date of October 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t figure out why this is happening! Help?<\/p>\n<p>Code to filter old events from the frontend:<\/p>\n<pre><code>add_filter(&#039;tribe_events_pre_get_posts&#039;, &#039;filter_tribe_all_occurences&#039;, 100);\n\nfunction filter_tribe_all_occurences ($wp_query) {\n\tif ( !is_admin() )  {\n\t  $new_meta = array();\n\t  $today = new DateTime();\n\n\t  \/\/ Join with existing meta_query\n\t  if(is_array($wp_query-&gt;meta_query)) {\n\t  \t$new_meta = $wp_query-&gt;meta_query;\n\t\t}\n\n\t  \/\/ Add new meta_query, select events ending from now forward\n\t  $new_meta[] = array(\n\t          &#039;key&#039; =&gt; &#039;_EventEndDate&#039;,\n\t          &#039;type&#039; =&gt; &#039;DATETIME&#039;,\n\t          &#039;compare&#039; =&gt; &#039;&gt;=&#039;,\n\t          &#039;value&#039; =&gt; $today-&gt;format(&#039;Y-m-d H:i:s&#039;)\n\t  );\n\t  $wp_query-&gt;set( &#039;meta_query&#039;, $new_meta );\n\t}\n\treturn $wp_query;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1009326","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hiding past events causes event start date to equal event end date? -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/hiding-past-events-causes-event-start-date-to-equal-event-end-date\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hiding past events causes event start date to equal event end date? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello all, I&#8217;m trying to hide past event from the front-end on one of my websites. 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