{"id":1147833,"date":"2016-08-04T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/recurring-eventsmain-loopfunctions-phpand-settings\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T21:29:59","slug":"recurring-eventsmain-loopfunctions-phpand-settings","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/recurring-eventsmain-loopfunctions-phpand-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Recurring events\/main loop\/functions.php\/and settings :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am SO close to figuring this out using the forums and the docs&#8230; so thank you guys for having so many resources available.<\/p>\n<p>However &#8211; I can&#8217;t get past one thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I successfully integrated the events into the main loop even though its a custom query..<\/p>\n<p>Then I successfully got the events to show in their published date order&#8230; by adding to the functions.php file&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*BUT having the &#8216;recurring events&#8217; checkbox checked in settings kills the whole loop.  So that portion of the homepage goes blank.<\/p>\n<p>This has only happened after adding to the functions file&#8230;  The piece that fixed the publish date order by stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I added this to functions.php:<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nadd_action( &#8216;pre_get_posts&#8217;, &#8216;tribe_post_date_ordering&#8217;, 51 );<\/p>\n<p>function tribe_post_date_ordering( $query ) {<br \/>\n\tif ( ! empty( $query-&gt;tribe_is_multi_posttype ) ) {<br \/>\n\t\tremove_filter( &#8216;posts_fields&#8217;, array( &#8216;Tribe__Events__Query&#8217;, &#8216;multi_type_posts_fields&#8217; ), 10, 2 );<br \/>\n\t\t$query-&gt;set( &#8216;order&#8217;, &#8216;DESC&#8217; );<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>But now I can&#8217;t click the recurring events checkbox in settings without it removing the home page loop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SO &#8211; Is there a function, or an addition to the function above that can eliminate the repeated posts for recurring events&#8230; to only show the first one&#8230; not all of them in a row&#8230; without checking that box?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance!!!!<\/p>\n<p>a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1147833","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>Recurring events\/main loop\/functions.php\/and settings :) -<\/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\/recurring-eventsmain-loopfunctions-phpand-settings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recurring events\/main loop\/functions.php\/and settings :) -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am SO close to figuring this out using the forums and the docs&#8230; so thank you guys for having so many resources available. 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