We have a custom post type, events. This has a custom field called event_start.
In trying to query only past events, I’d like to limit the query with this basic logic:
– post type is events
– event_start is not empty
– event_start is a date before today
For this I’ve composed what seems to be a straightforward query:
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'events',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'meta_query' => array(
'relation' => 'AND',
array(
'key' => 'event_start',
'value' => $today,
'compare' => '<'
),
array(
'key' => 'event_start',
'compare' => 'EXISTS'
),
array(
'key' => 'event_start',
'compare' => '!=',
'value' => ''
),
),
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
But this is returning all the events. What am I missing? Appreciate any pointers, thanks!
