{"id":1028807,"date":"2015-11-20T19:06:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T03:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-only-show-single-future-instance-of-recurring-event-in-wordpress-search\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T08:32:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:32:53","slug":"how-to-only-show-single-future-instance-of-recurring-event-in-wordpress-search","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/how-to-only-show-single-future-instance-of-recurring-event-in-wordpress-search\/","title":{"rendered":"How to only show single, future instance of recurring event in WordPress search?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying modify the site search (e.g www.mysite.com\/?s=test) so that it returns only the first upcoming instance of a recurring event. I&#8217;ve searched high and low, both on these forums and on Google, and all I found was this: https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/show-only-first-instance-of-recurring-event-in-search-results\/<\/p>\n<pre><code>\/\/ Show only first instance of recurring events in search results\nadd_filter( &#039;posts_groupby&#039;, &#039;my_posts_groupby&#039;, 10, 2);\nfunction my_posts_groupby ( $group_by, $query ) {\n  if (is_admin() || !is_search())  return $group_by;\n \n  global $wpdb;\n  $group_by = &quot; IF( {$wpdb-&gt;posts}.post_parent = 0, {$wpdb-&gt;posts}.ID, {$wpdb-&gt;posts}.post_parent )&quot;;\n \n  return $group_by;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I went ahead and added the above to my functions.php, and the search now returns a single instance. However, it is not limited to current\/future events, and will return past events too, which obviously isn&#8217;t desired.<\/p>\n<p>How would I go about limiting the search to only show the first instance out of the current\/future list? <\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1028807","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>How to only show single, future instance of recurring event in Wordpress search? -<\/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\/how-to-only-show-single-future-instance-of-recurring-event-in-wordpress-search\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to only show single, future instance of recurring event in Wordpress search? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m trying modify the site search (e.g www.mysite.com\/?s=test) so that it returns only the first upcoming instance of a recurring event. 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