Date Picker order by date

• bethmottadesign

• June 28, 2018 at 6:01 am

I am having trouble with ordering posts by the date picker field. I am also only displaying “upcoming events” in this feed. My field name is “event_date”. This is the code I have:

 $args = array( 	
    'post_type'      => 'post',
    'cat' => 1,
    'meta_query'   => array(
  	'relation'      => 'AND',
    array(
      'key'         => 'event_date',
      'value'       => date('Ymd'),
      'compare'     => '>',
      'type'        => 'date'
    ),
    'posts_per_page' => -1,    
    'meta_key' =>'event_date',
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
    'order'          => 'ASC',
 ));

$upcoming= new WP_Query( $args );
$current_post_id = $post->ID;
if ( $upcoming ->have_posts() ) : ?>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<?php $exclude = array(); ?>

 <?php while ( $upcoming->have_posts() ) : $upcoming ->the_post(); ?>
 <?php $exclude[] = $post->ID; ?>

				
	<h3><?php the_title();?><br/>
	<span class="price"><?php the_field('location');?>, <?php the_field('event_date');?></span></h3>
	<?php the_excerpt();?>
	<a class="buttonblue" href="<?php the_permalink();?>">more details</a>

<?php endwhile;  endif; wp_reset_postdata(); ?>