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  • Anonymous
    (Private)  February 18, 2019 at 3:44 pm #202606

    I created a filter for events and added in the Search Form UI a post-meta field using Date and _EventStartDate custom field as target. I tried different options but whenever I use this field in the frontend is not showing any results, with or without data range.

    The strange thing is that the settings to show only present and future events works perfectly putting _EventEndDate : date : >= Current date.

    I wait until cache is built and shows events, but when I filter I get nothing.

    Trevor
    (Private)  February 18, 2019 at 5:14 pm #202609

    There is a good chance that the dates are not stored in the YYYYMMDD format required by Search and Filter.

    Anonymous
    (Private)  February 22, 2019 at 9:50 am #202989

    Dates are stored in this format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
    But the global filter to show only content from the current date to the future works perfectly.

    Is there a way I can make it work? Maybe modifying the code of the plugin manually?

    Thanks for your help!

    Trevor
    (Private)  February 22, 2019 at 12:14 pm #203006

    The only way you could make it work is to have a second date field, that holds the date in our required format. You could add a function to your child theme’s functions.php file to hook in to the WordPress save_post() function to process the saved date and save it in the desired format into this new field.

    Anonymous
    (Private)  February 22, 2019 at 2:47 pm #203056

    Seems not very efficient to duplicate meta fields just to do this.

    There is an option for Date Input Format: Timestamp or YYYYMMDD (ACF). Could you make a new one for
    The Events Calendar plugin, so they are compatible? This is by far the top 1 calendar plugin:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/calendar/

    Trevor
    (Private)  February 22, 2019 at 3:19 pm #203060

    It is likely we will look at this for V3, which is currently in development.

    Anonymous
    (Private)  January 16, 2023 at 5:07 pm #276720

    We’re currently working on this situation as well. Is the solution to wait for V3? Is there a release date set for V3 yet?

    Trevor
    (Private)  January 16, 2023 at 5:11 pm #276722

    No release date, I am sorry. Closer, a lot closer.

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