{"id":1147766,"date":"2016-08-04T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/using-events-calendar-posts-outside-the-plugin\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:57:27","slug":"using-events-calendar-posts-outside-the-plugin","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/using-events-calendar-posts-outside-the-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Events Calendar posts outside the plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I use the Custom Content Shortcode<\/a> WP plugin to build custom query loops within page content, and I’ve used it to build event feeds because there’s much more flexibility than the Event Calendar shortcode. The feed on this page<\/a> is an example. The loops can filter by post type, taxonomie(s), and field values (including date fields).<\/p>\n

I want to build loops which call a specific date range, but only future events will display. I think it’s probably because the default for tribe_get_events is ‘future’, although I don’t understand how that applies outside the Events Calendar plugin. This is a college, so there are a lot of events I need to display by semester or school year, and the whole list needs to stay up throughout. Here’s the test loop I’m using, it finds events with the event category ‘academic-calendar’ in the specified date range and displays the title and start date. Everything works properly except past events don’t display:<\/p>\n

[loop type=tribe_events taxonomy=tribe_events_cat term=academic-calendar field=_EventStartDate field_compare=more value=’2016-09-01 00:00:00′ field_2=_EventEndDate field_compare_2=less value_2=’2017-01-30 00:00:00′]
\n[field title]; [field _EventStartDate]
\n[\/loop]<\/p>\n

I need to find a way to bypass the future event default. A way to specify the post type? A taxonomy? A php snippet which will override the future default in the Custom Content loop? I’m sure that if I override the future default globally the result will be chaos! I can wrap the loop in a div with a specific id to target, but I can’t add an id inside the loop.<\/p>\n

Separate question: At one point I found a file in the plugin files which included lists of all the fields in events, venues, and organizers, maybe to set the default values. That’s how I figured out ‘_EventStartDate’. Now I can’t find it!!! What is it?<\/p>\n

Thanks, Susan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1147766","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nUsing Events Calendar posts outside the plugin -<\/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\/using-events-calendar-posts-outside-the-plugin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using Events Calendar posts outside the plugin -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I use the Custom Content Shortcode WP plugin to build custom query loops within page content, and I’ve used it to build event feeds because there’s much more flexibility than the Event Calendar shortcode. The feed on this page is an example. 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