{"id":1491433,"date":"2018-03-29T02:32:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/pass-start-date-in-pre-get-posts\/"},"modified":"2018-03-29T02:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T09:32:24","slug":"pass-start-date-in-pre-get-posts","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/pass-start-date-in-pre-get-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"pass start date in pre get posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>We are showing events on category page , where we directly use this code<br \/>\nif (have_posts()) :<br \/>\n                    while (have_posts()) : the_post();<\/p>\n<p>to show events.<\/p>\n<p>Also , we want to show only upcoming events , so we want to filter data using &#8220;pre_get_posts&#8221; and we are passing folowing in pre get posts <\/p>\n<p>$start_date_query = array(<br \/>\n\t\t\tarray(<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#8216;key&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;_EventStartDate&#8217;,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#8216;value&#8217; =&gt; date(&#8216;yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm&#8217;),<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#8216;compare&#8217; =&gt; &#8216;&gt;=&#8217;<br \/>\n\t\t\t)<br \/>\n\t\t);<br \/>\n$query-&gt;set( &#8216;meta_query&#8217;, $start_date_query );<br \/>\n$query-&gt;set( &#8216;orderby&#8217;, &#8216;event_date post_date&#8217; );<br \/>\n$query-&gt;set( &#8216;order&#8217;, &#8216;ASC&#8217; );<br \/>\n$query-&gt;set(&#8216;eventDisplay&#8217;, &#8216;upcoming&#8217;);<\/p>\n<p>But this shows all past and future events , means start date meta query is not working , can you please tell us how can we use pre get post parameters to make this work.<\/p>\n<p>Also , We are not able to use directly &#8220;tribe_get_events&#8221; function , so please let us know solution for above , Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Also , we want to show all recursive events for some category and not all recursive events for other categories , you have suggested to use &#8220;tribeHideRecurrence&#8221; query parameter in pre get posts , Can you also let us know how can we use this parameter with default WordPress pre get post function with above shown parameters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1491433","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>pass start date in pre get posts -<\/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\/pass-start-date-in-pre-get-posts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"pass start date in pre get posts -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, We are showing events on category page , where we directly use this code if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); to show events. 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