{"id":1125922,"date":"2016-06-12T16:56:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T23:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/only-show-next-event-in-search-results\/"},"modified":"2016-06-12T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T23:56:47","slug":"only-show-next-event-in-search-results","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/only-show-next-event-in-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Only show next event in search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HI all,<\/p>\n<p>Am trying to customize my search results to only show the next upcoming event in a series of recurring events, rather than every event. This saves having 20+ pages of search results with the same event.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve managed to find a filter to only search top level posts as I read that the calendar creates recurring events as children of the first post.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got so far:<\/p>\n<pre><code>add_action( &#039;pre_get_posts&#039;, &#039;hide_recurring_event_search&#039; );\nfunction hide_recurring_event_search( $query ) {\n    if ( !is_admin() &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_main_query() ) {\n        if ($query-&gt;is_search) {\n            $query-&gt;set(&#039;post_parent&#039;, &#039;0&#039; );\n        }\n    }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This hides all the child events as expected, but the only event that shows up is the first in the series, and is therefore irrelevant because it&#8217;s in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Any tips or assistance on how I could finish this off to get it working as expected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1125922","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>Only show next event in search results -<\/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\/only-show-next-event-in-search-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only show next event in search results -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HI all, Am trying to customize my search results to only show the next upcoming event in a series of recurring events, rather than every event. 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