Hi everyone,
New to the forum I have a problem with my query. I have a post type ‘event’ with the field, event_date which is a Date Picker. I’m trying to filter between upcoming events and past events. I have tried to do my own research but I’m stuck now, and I keep getting ‘no posts’. Help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
My code is below:
<?php
//find date time now
$today = date('Ymd');
//query
$posts = new WP_Query(array(
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'post_type' => 'event',
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'meta_value',
'meta_key' => 'event_date',
'meta_type' => 'DATETIME',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'event_date',
'compare' => '<=',
'value' => $today,
'type' => 'DATE'
)
)
));
?>
<?php
$children = new WP_Query($posts);
if($children->have_posts())://display
else:echo "no posts";
Date fields in ACF are not stored in standard SQL date format, which is seems you are aware of looking at this line of your code $today = date('Ymd'); and this is the reason your query is getting no results. Change the type of the meta field to either ‘NUMERIC’ or let it default to ‘CHAR’.
It’s not working for me either!
I want to show posts with event_date field greater or equal than today.
Here’s my code, but the posts are not filtered. I tried without type or with NUMERIC or CHAR:
$today = date('Ymd');
$meta_query = array(
array(
'key' => 'event_date',
'compare' => '>=',
'value' => $today,
'type' => 'CHAR'
)
);
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'meta_key' => 'event_date',
'orderby' => 'meta_value',
'order' => 'ASC',
'paged' => 1,
'meta-query' => $meta_query
);
$wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
