Reply To: How do I only show future events?

• Jason

• March 21, 2014 at 6:04 am

Hi eike,

You need to set up args that filter the date. I actually have this set and running on my site.

I set the timezone to my timezone and then set 2 variables, one is set to todays date and the other is set to a year from now.

<?php 
	//Set server timezone to central
	date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago'); 
	//Today's date
	$date_1 = date('Ymd', strtotime("now")); 
	//Future date - the arg will look between today's date and this future date to see if the post fall within the 2 dates.
	$date_2 = date('Ymd', strtotime("+12 months"));
?>

Then I set a variable to determine if the post is in the future:

//arg to determine if the post is an upcoming event.
	$upcoming_args = array(
		'post_type'		=> 'event',
		'posts_per_page'	=> -1,
		'meta_key' => 'start_date',
		'meta_compare' => 'BETWEEN',
		'meta_type' => 'numeric',
		'meta_value' => array($date_1, $date_2),
		'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
		'order' => 'ASC'
	); 
?>

Set up a new upcoming event query:

<?php 
	// the upcoming events query
	$upcoming_query = new WP_Query( $upcoming_args ); 
?>

Then the loop:

<?php if ( $upcoming_query->have_posts() ) : ?>					
  <!-- the loop -->
  <?php while ( $upcoming_query->have_posts() ) : $upcoming_query->the_post(); ?>
  
  	<!--Your Content-->
  								    
  <?php endwhile; ?>
  <!-- end of the loop -->

  <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<?php else:  ?>
  <p><?php _e( 'There are currently no upcoming events, please check back soon.' ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

Hope that helps.