{"id":1333325,"date":"2017-08-10T02:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T09:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/removing-upcoming-events-if-they-have-started\/"},"modified":"2017-08-10T02:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T09:56:51","slug":"removing-upcoming-events-if-they-have-started","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/removing-upcoming-events-if-they-have-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing upcoming events if they have started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have reused the bottom code block &#8211; which works fine. If an event over days  has started it removes it from the listings.  The thread suggested that a test for $query-&gt;is_main_query() should be included:<\/p>\n<p>have tried this but it stops working<br \/>\n<code>if ($post_type == &#039;tribe_events&#039; &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_main_query() )<\/code><\/p>\n<pre><code>function start_date_strict($query) {\n    $post_type = $query-&gt;query_vars[&#039;post_type&#039;]; \n \n    if ($post_type == &#039;tribe_events&#039;) {\n \n        $filterDate = current_time(&#039;Y-m-d H:i:s&#039;);\n        if (!empty( $_REQUEST[&#039;tribe-bar-date&#039;] ) ) {\n            $filterDate = $_REQUEST[&#039;tribe-bar-date&#039;];\n        }\n \n        $query-&gt;query_vars[&#039;meta_query&#039;][] = \n                 array(         \/\/ restrict posts based on meta values\n                    &#039;key&#039;     =&gt; &#039;_EventStartDate&#039;,  \/\/ which meta to query\n                    &#039;value&#039;   =&gt; $filterDate,  \/\/ value for comparison\n                    &#039;compare&#039; =&gt; &#039;&gt;=&#039;,          \/\/ method of comparison\n                    &#039;type&#039;    =&gt; &#039;DATETIME&#039;);\n    }\n}\nadd_filter( &#039;tribe_events_pre_get_posts&#039;, &#039;start_date_strict&#039;, 100, 1 );<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1333325","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>Removing upcoming events if they have started -<\/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\/removing-upcoming-events-if-they-have-started\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Removing upcoming events if they have started -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We have reused the bottom code block &#8211; which works fine. 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