Reply To: Hide posts if custom field date is less than current date?

• ericjacksonwood

• March 10, 2015 at 7:31 am

I’ve been having some trouble with this as well. I have a “Upcoming Events” page, and a “Past Events” page. Each event has a custom field called “event_date”.

I want to create a loop that displays all of the events greater than today.

From what I’ve gathered in the three links above, I would put this in my functions.php file:

// CREATE UNIX TIME STAMP FROM DATE PICKER
function custom_unixtimesamp ( $post_id ) {
    if ( get_post_type( $post_id ) == 'event_type' ) {
	$event_date = get_post_meta($post_id, 'event_date', true);

		if($event_date) {
			$dateparts = explode('/', $event_date);
			$newdate1 = strtotime(date('d.m.Y H:i:s', strtotime($dateparts[1].'/'.$dateparts[0].'/'.$dateparts[2])));
			update_post_meta($post_id, 'unixstartdate', $newdate1  );
		}
	}
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'custom_unixtimesamp', 100, 2);

Then I would add something like this to my page template:

<?php 
							$today = time();

							$args = array(
								'post_type' => 'event_type',
								'posts_per_page' => 5,

								'meta_query' => array(
									array(
										'key' => 'unixstartdate',
										'compare' => '>=',
										'value' => $today,
									)
								),

								'meta_key' => 'event_date',
								'orderby' => 'meta_value',
								'order' => 'ASC',
							);

							$query = new WP_Query( $args );
							$event_type = $query->posts;
							?>
							<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

Right now that’s not turning up any results. My post-type is called “event_type”, and the key is “event_date”.

Any thoughts on where I’m going wrong?