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The following code will output events in an ascending manner, but it will also retrieve past events.

<?php
                
  $args = array(
  'post_type' => 'event',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'meta_key' => '_event_start_date',
  'orderby' => '_event_start_date',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  );

  $posts = get_posts($args);
  $chunked = array_chunk($posts, 6, false);

  foreach ($chunked as $chunk) :
    get_template_part('template-parts/grids/events-grid', null, [
    'posts' => $chunk,]);
  endforeach;

  wp_reset_postdata();
?>

I only want to show events that are in the scope ‘future.’ Unfortunately, it appears that you cannot pass the ‘scope’ in the $args array to the WP_Query (in my case get_posts())

With that being said, I tried to use ‘compare’ => ‘>=’ against a ‘value’ => $today

$today = date('Y-m-d'); (this is the format of the date in the database)

$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'event',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'meta_key' => '_event_start_date',
  'orderby' => '_event_start_date',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  // 'meta_value' => $today, (this format will not retrieve any posts)
  'value' => $today, (this format will not filter events greater than or equal to 
   today)
  'compare' => '>=',
);

Any help is much appreciated.

The goal is to query all future/upcoming events, to exclude past events.

• This topic was modified 47 minutes ago by rftbdev.