Reply To: Past Events Page, Display Posts by DatePicker Year

• fuberator

• January 20, 2018 at 7:14 am

@codeview muchas gracias! i have my own thing going now and it works,

I am now at the next step where i need to add a condition from a group switch to the mix (group/solo). I have the code, I just don’t know how to merge it in. Perhaps you have some advice.

Most grateful in any case

This is where I am at:

  <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
    <?php
    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
    $today = date('Ymd');

    $past_args = array(
        'paged' => $paged,
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
        'post_type' => 'exhibition',
        'meta_query' => array (
            array (
                'key' => 'ex_start',
                'value' => $today,
                'compare' => '<',
                'type' => 'DATE'
            )
        ),
        'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
        'order' => 'DESC'                   
    );
    query_posts( $past_args );
    ?> 

<?php
echo '<div class="biotitle">' . 'Solo Exhibitions' . '</div>';
?>

    <!-- PAST EXHIBITIONS -->
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php   
    $date = get_field('ex_start');
    $gallery = get_field('ex_gallery_name');
    $past_year = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', $date);
    $year = $past_year->format('Y');
    
    // get start date
$datum1 = get_field('ex_start', false, false);

// make start date object
$datum1 = new DateTime($datum1);

    // get end date
$datum2= get_field('ex_end', false, false);

// make end date object
$datum2 = new DateTime($datum2);

    if ($year !== $today) { ?>
        <h2><?php echo $year; ?></h2><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>

    <?php } ?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="exhibit"><?php the_title(); ?> , <?php echo $gallery; ?> , <?php echo $datum1->format('j M Y'); ?> - <?php echo $datum2->format('j M Y'); ?></a>
    <?php $today = $year; ?>

<?php
echo "<p><br /></p>";
?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

and this is my final argument, that i am to inexperienced to merge in:

<?php

$posts = get_posts(array(
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => 'ex_groupsolo', // name of custom field
            'value' => 'solo',
        )
    )
));

if( $posts ) {
    //...
}

?>