Reply To: Get Next Post

• toad78

• November 5, 2016 at 3:24 am

With this code, I’m able to get the right column to post:

<?php if( have_rows(‘tradeshows’, 40) ): ?>
<?php
$current_event_date = get_sub_field(‘event_date’);
$next_event_query = new WP_Query(array(
‘post_type’ => ‘events’,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘posts_per_page’ => -1,
‘meta_query’ => array(
array(
‘key’ => ‘event_date’,
‘compare’ => ‘>’,
‘value’ => $current_event_date,
‘type’ => ‘CHAR’
)
),
‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’
));

$rows = get_field(‘tradeshows’, 40);
?>

<?php if ($next_event_query->have_posts()) : while ($next_event_query->have_posts()): $next_event_query->the_post(); ?>
<div class=”col-sm-3″>
<h3>NEXT TRADESHOW</h3>
<p><?php echo $current_event_date; ?></p>
</div>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<div class=”col-sm-6 col-sm-offset-3″>
<h3>UPCOMING TRADESHOWS</h3>
<?php while( have_rows(‘tradeshows’, 40) ): the_row(); ?>
<div class=”col-sm-4″>
<p class=”eventdate”><?php the_sub_field(‘event_date’); ?><br />
<span class=”locplace”><?php the_sub_field(‘event_location’); ?></span></p>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

I don’t understand how to create a ‘meta_key’ argument as you’ve mentioned since I need to retrieve the next post in the list. I’m assuming you mean this:

$next_event_query = new WP_Query(array(
							  'post_type'      => 'event',
							  'post_status'    => 'publish',
							  'posts_per_page' => -1,
							  'meta_query'     => array(
								array(
								  'meta_key'   => 'event_date',
								  'key'        => 'event_date',

The below code posts the data in the right column within the loop that I have set:

<p class="eventdate"><?php the_sub_field('event_date'); ?><br />
<span class="locplace"><?php the_sub_field('event_location'); ?></span></p>

So I’m still needing to understand how to post the next post in the left column.