{"id":1263586,"date":"2017-04-03T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T23:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/fieldevent_start_date-is-created-using-minwp_postmeta-meta_value\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T23:25:15","slug":"fieldevent_start_date-is-created-using-minwp_postmeta-meta_value","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/fieldevent_start_date-is-created-using-minwp_postmeta-meta_value\/","title":{"rendered":"$field[&#039;event_start_date&#039;] is created using min(wp_postmeta.meta_value)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, which I am trying to discover, the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/moderntribe\/the-events-calendar\/blob\/develop\/src\/Tribe\/Query.php#L453\">posts_fields function<\/a> defines event_start_date by getting the lowest meta_value from all returned with a post.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using pre_get_posts to filter out a few categories, but I&#8217;d like to also use a meta_query, which breaks the main query because in the fields returned the &#8216;start date&#8217; is not always the meta field with the smallest value. 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