{"id":1514627,"date":"2018-04-24T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/need-help-with-get_posts-and-recurring-events\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T06:27:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:27:16","slug":"need-help-with-get_posts-and-recurring-events","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/need-help-with-get_posts-and-recurring-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Need help with get_posts and recurring events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using get_posts to retrieve events on a page like this:<\/p>\n<p><code>$posts = get_posts(array(<br \/>\n  'numberposts'            =&gt; 8,<br \/>\n  'post_type'              =&gt; array('tribe_events'),<br \/>\n  'meta_query'             =&gt; array(<br \/>\n    'relation'             =&gt; 'AND',<br \/>\n    array(<br \/>\n      'key' =&gt; 'forsidesak',<br \/>\n      'value' =&gt; 1,<br \/>\n      'compare' =&gt; '==',<br \/>\n    ),<br \/>\n    array(<br \/>\n      'key' =&gt; '_EventStartDate',<br \/>\n      'value' =&gt; $today,<br \/>\n      'compare' =&gt; '&gt;=',<br \/>\n    ),<br \/>\n  ),<br \/>\n  'orderby'                =&gt; '_EventStartDate',<br \/>\n  'order'                  =&gt; 'ASC',<br \/>\n));<\/code><\/p>\n<p>For recurring events I need to display only the first event. How can I do that here? Is it possible to check if an event is part of a series of recurring events, get the first date of the series, get the start date of the event we&#8217;re fetching, and if the two start dates are different, don&#8217;t fetch it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1514627","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>Need help with get_posts and recurring events -<\/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\/need-help-with-get_posts-and-recurring-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Need help with get_posts and recurring events -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m using get_posts to retrieve events on a page like this: $posts = get_posts(array( &#039;numberposts&#039; 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