{"id":13812,"date":"2012-01-22T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T05:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/display-only-todays-events-using-wp_query\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T00:00:07","slug":"display-only-todays-events-using-wp_query","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/display-only-todays-events-using-wp_query\/","title":{"rendered":"Display only today&#039;s events using WP_Query"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I&#8217;m trying to display events happening today only, using the following query:<\/p>\n<p>$today_start  = date(&#8216;Y-m-d H:i:s&#8217;,mktime(0, 0, 0, date(&#8220;m&#8221;)  , date(&#8220;d&#8221;), date(&#8220;Y&#8221;)));<br \/>\n\t\t$today_end  = date(&#8216;Y-m-d H:i:s&#8217;,mktime(23, 59, 59, date(&#8220;m&#8221;)  , date(&#8220;d&#8221;), date(&#8220;Y&#8221;)));<br \/>\n\t\t$todays_events = new WP_Query(array(<br \/>\n        &#8216;posts_per_page&#8217; =&gt; -1,<br \/>\n\t\t&#8216;order&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;ASC&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t\t&#8216;post_type&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;tribe_events&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t\t&#8216;meta_key&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;_EventStartDate&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t\t&#8216;orderby&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;meta_value&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t\t&#8216;meta_query&#8217; =&gt; array(<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tarray(<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#8216;key&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;_EventStartDate&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#8216;value&#8217; =&gt; array( $today_start, $today_end ),<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#8216;type&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;DATETIME&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#8216;compare&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;BETWEEN&#8217;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t)<br \/>\n\t\t\t),<br \/>\n\t\t));<br \/>\n\t\tif($todays_events-&gt;have_posts()){<br \/>\n       \twhile ($todays_events-&gt;have_posts()) : $todays_events-&gt;the_post();<br \/>\n\/\/do stuff<br \/>\n======<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, for recurring events, it&#8217;s displaying ALL the recurrences. See an example here:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/dpractice.postmodernsublime.com\/<br \/>\nUnder &#8220;Today&#8217;s Events&#8221; at the bottom of the page, there are 150 events. <\/p>\n<p>How can I get it to display only events from a certain day (ie today)? Should I be using tribe_get_events instead of a Loop? And how would I do that?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nSteve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-13812","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>Display only today&#039;s events using WP_Query -<\/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\/display-only-todays-events-using-wp_query\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Display only today&#039;s events using WP_Query -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi. 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