I am having some trouble trying to get the value of a custom meta field from a recurring event. Bear with me as I lay out the whole problem.<\/p>\n
I am making a page template that will list out a week’s worth of upcoming events. Here’s the “query” I’m working with:<\/p>\n
$args = array(\n\t'start_date' => $start_date->format('Y-m-d'),\n\t'end_date' => $end_date->format('Y-m-d'),\n);\n$events = tribe_get_events($args);<\/code><\/pre>\n$start_date<\/em> is previously set up to be today’s date, and $end_date<\/em> is set up to be 1 week after that. The foreach loop works fine with setup_postdata() and all, in that I can loop through a week’s events and retrieve basic post info like title, permalink, and excerpt.<\/p>\nHowever for recurring events I cannot get values from custom meta fields.<\/strong> This only happens if the event post was created after<\/em> the meta field was created.<\/p>\nI’m using Advanced Custom Fields to set up the meta fields, “admission” and “events_tickets_url”. We set up a bunch of dummy events to work with while developing the site, and since then I added these two meta fields, meaning the posts were created before the meta fields. One of the recurring events is titled “HIGHLIGHTS TOUR”, where I used the “Edit All” link to update those two meta fields to “free with admission” and “https:\/\/google.com” respectively.<\/p>\n
Then I can look through the individual instances of that event and the fields, and they do show that they have been updated. Like I can go to today’s instance of “HIGHLIGHTS TOUR” and the “events_tickets_url” field shows as “https:\/\/google.com”.<\/p>\n
The crazy thing is though that in the foreach loop, get_field(‘events_tickets_url’) returns NULL as if the meta field doesn’t even exist. Even passing in the post ID of the current event in the loop to get_field() doesn’t work. It seems like whatever post ID I get from the post objects in the loop just isn’t the right ID to use in order to get a meta field. Or does the calendar plugin filter into get_the_ID() to return a different ID than normal?<\/p>\n
In any case, I don’t really know what’s going on here. The only solution I have found is to create a new version of the event post, now that the meta fields already exist. But there’s gotta be a better way? What is the reason why I can’t get meta field values (at least from ACF) from recurring events, if the meta fields were created after the event posts?<\/p>\n
In the screenshots I provided, the first shows one of the events being output during the foreach loop. These are meant to show that the meta field return as NULL during the loop, but if I edit the posts there is a value in that field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1086821","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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