I need to select custom posts type (events) between a date range. The below query works when I have a date range between two different dates but if I want to select posts for the same day but different times, it doesnt work.
I have a post with the datetime in meta data: 2017-08-18 20:00:00 but the below query does not select this when $start_date_time = ‘2017-08-18 00:00:00’ and $start_date_time = ‘2017-08-18 11:59:59’.
However the below DOES work when $start_date_time = ‘2017-08-01 00:00:00’ and $start_date_time = ‘2017-08-31 11:59:59’.
Why is that
$events_query = new WP_Query([
'post_type' => 'events',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'no_found_rows' => true,
'meta_query' => array(
'relation' => 'AND',
array(
'key' => 'date',
'compare' => '>=',
'value' => $start_date_time
),
array(
'key' => 'date',
'compare' => '<=',
'value' => $end_date_time
),
),
]);
Do you mean $start_date_time and $end_date_time instead of 2x $start_date_time ?
If so, the first example seems to be ok.
If start_date_time = 2017-08-18 00:00:00
and $end_date_time = 2017-08-18 11:59:59
then it shouldn’t get a result because 2017-08-18 20:00:00 is bigger than both dates instead of bigger than one and smaller than one.
The second example also seems to be ok.
If start_date_time = 2017-08-01 00:00:00
and $end_date_time = 2017-08-31 11:59:59
then 2017-08-18 20:00:00 is bigger than start_date_time and smaller than $end_date_time so it would show.
I don’t see anything wrong with this right now. This would give the result as expected (or i’m missing what the issue is…).
