recurring events not showing

Hey sky19er,

Sorry for the delay. Did you enable the recurring events option in the Event Settings > General panel?

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

We have added the tribeHideRecurrence parameter to the tribe_get_events function and set the parameter’s value to false. Let us know if this changes anything.

// Blog Posts: Query events by starting date
function avia_blog_post_query_mod( $query, $params ) {
    if(! is_singular( 'portfolio' ) ) 
    {
        return $query;
    }

    $include = array();
    $posts = array();

    $events = tribe_get_events( [
        'posts_per_page' => 5,
        'start_date' => 'now',
        'orderby' => 'meta_value',
        'meta_key' => '_EventStartDate',
        'order' => 'DESC',
        'tribeHideRecurrence' => false,
        'tax_query' => $query['tax_query']
    ] );

    foreach($events as $event) {
        $date = tribe_get_start_date( $event, false, 'j F Y' );
        $include[$event->ID] = $date;
    }

    asort($include);

    foreach($include as $key => $value) {
        $posts[] = $key;
    }

    unset($query['tax_query']);
    $query['orderby'] = 'meta_value';
    $query['order'] = 'ASC';
    $query['meta_key'] = '_EventStartDate';
    $query['post__in'] = $posts;

    return $query;
}
add_filter('avia_blog_post_query', 'avia_blog_post_query_mod', 10, 2); 

Thank you for your patience.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

It is now displaying the latest event (Youth Social: Goal Setting) but the recurring events are still not shown even though they are queried properly. Have you tried forwarding the thread to the tribe events support? We might have missed an option or query parameter.

This is the latest modification in the filter.

// Blog Posts: Query events by starting date
function avia_blog_post_query_mod( $query, $params ) {
    if(! is_singular( 'portfolio' ) ) 
    {
        return $query;
    }

    $posts = array();

    $events = tribe_get_events( [
        'posts_per_page' => 6,
        'start_date' => 'now',
        'orderby' => 'meta_value',
        'meta_key' => '_EventStartDate',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'tribeHideRecurrence' => false,
        'tax_query' => $query['tax_query']
    ] );

    foreach($events as $event) {
        $posts[] = $event->ID;
    }

    unset($query['tax_query']);
    $query['post__in'] = $posts;

    return $query;
}
add_filter('avia_blog_post_query', 'avia_blog_post_query_mod', 10, 2); 

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

everything seems to be working properly. Have you already seen that display / does that offer any clues?

Yes, we noticed that, but I think what complicates the issue with the Blog Posts element is the use of the custom taxonomy “Properties”. This is not applied to the events page, which displays all items regardless of the category they belong to. It would be helpful if you could ask their team for the actual query for the recurring events so that we can apply it to the Blog Posts element. Also, it appears that recurring events may require specific conditions that we are not aware of, so it would be very helpful if they could provide input on that as well.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

I can only get one event to show at a time — only the next upcoming event.

Yes, we’ve noticed this issue. For some reason, recurring events cannot be retrieved when using the query_posts function with the post__in parameter, which is the default function used by the Blog Posts element to fetch the posts. In the filter above, we are using the default tribe_get_events function to obtain the IDs of the first 6 related items, which works correctly. However, when we pass these IDs to the query_posts function using the post__in parameter, it only returns non-recurring events.

should we add the _bak to that folder?

We just disabled the custom shortcodes just to test if it conflicts with the Blog Posts element. You can enable it back.

I noticed previously it looked like you’d checked the Events > Settings
> Condense events in Series option

Yes, you can leave this option disabled.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

but it’s not even showing all the non-recurring events

Yes, we understand. It’s displaying only one event, which is likely due to the fact that we are only retrieving six items at a time. During testing in the casa-dominguez page, when we use the tribe_get_events function, it returns five recurring events and one non-recurring event. However, as mentioned earlier, the query_posts function doesn’t retrieve recurring events, resulting in only one item being displayed. We could try and adjust the value of the posts_per_page parameter in the query to retrieve more items, but it will still ignore recurring events.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Thank you for the info.

It turns out that post ID is different from event ID, which is why we can’t retrieve the recurring events. We modified the filter in the functions.php file a bit to check if the an item is part of a series and fetch the actual post ID.

foreach ($events as $event) {
        if(tribe_is_recurring_event($event->ID))
        {
            $posts[] = tec_series()->where( 'event_post_id', $event->ID )->first()->ID;
        } else {
            $posts[] = $event->ID;
        }
    }

As you may notice, the “After-School Program”, which is a recurring event, is now included in the list.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

We adjusted the query a bit to sort the items by start date. Please note that the date that is displayed in the front end is the modified or published date, not the event start date. You can hide this date by adding this css code.

time.date-container.minor-meta.updated {
    display: none;
}

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion. It turned out that the start date are already displayed in the frontend but for recurring events, only the initial event start date is displayed instead of the occurrence start date. To fix this issue, we modified the loop-index.php file in the child theme.

 if(get_post_type(get_the_ID() == 'tribe_event')) {
                $time = tribe_get_start_date(get_the_ID(), true);

				$next_occurrence = tribe_events()->where( 'series', get_the_ID() )->where( 'starts_after', 'now' )->first()->ID;

				if($next_occurrence !== NULL)
				{
					$time = tribe_get_start_date($next_occurrence, true);
				}
            } 

If you want to display more items, just edit the avia_blog_post_query_mod filter in the functions.php file. Adjust the value of the posts_per_page parameter around line 15 and 34.

line 15:

$events = tribe_get_events( [
        'posts_per_page' => 10,
        'start_date' => 'now',
        'tribeHideRecurrence' => 0
    ] );

line 34:

$query['posts_per_page'] = 10;

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

. But the recurring events still only seem to be showing the one/next future event

Only the next occurrence of a recurring event is displayed because there seems to be no way to retrieve recurring events when using query_posts, which is the default function used by the Blog Posts element. When we try to retrieve the post object ID based on the occurrence ID, it always return the ID of the parent event, not the actual post object ID of the occurrence. We can’t find any solutions in the documentation.

Have you tried using the tribe events shortcodes instead of the the Blog Posts element?

// https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/embedding-calendar-views-with-the-tribe_events-shortcode/
// https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/shortcodes/

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Thank you for your patience. If you have additional questions, please open a new thread and provide the link to this thread for reference. We’ll close this thread for now as it’s getting a bit lengthy.

Have a nice day.

Best regards,
Ismael