Filter by _EventStartDate with The Events Calendar PRO by Modern Tribe

Anonymous

#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

#202609

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

Anonymous

#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

#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

#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

#203060

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

Anonymous

#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

#276722

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

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