[Support request] Query loop suddenly only shows current events and not all events

[Marcel]

We created a website of an artists collective and on every artist “page” we use a GBP query loop to show all the events (exhibitions) he/she worked with.

It all worked until a few weeks ago. Don’t know if it was a GBP update or The Events Calendar but it used to show all events and now only current/future.

How to revert this into “show all events of tag”?

[Fernando]

Hi Marcel,

Inherently, it should show all posts/events by default. Can you check if you have custom PHP snippets that could cause such filtering?

[Marcel]

Hi Fernando, thanks for quick response. There are custom snippets but not related to filtering of events.

[Fernando]

To be sure, can you try temporarily removing all PHP snippets added through Code Snippets or functions.php?

Let us know how it goes. It would be good to take a backup of your site before doing this.

[Marcel]

just cleared all PHP snippets in functions.php, cleared cache and beside all lost effects the query loop didn’t work

[David]

Hi there,

just so i am clear on the issue.

Before: the artist page would show ALL Events including any Events that had finished ?
After: the artist page only shows events that are currently available ?

Is that correct ?

[Marcel]

Little bit more specific: BEFORE it showed ALL events by artist tag (past, current and future) and AFTER it shows only events by artist tag that are current or future

[David]

How is post defined as being past is it just the date ? Or is there a post term such as a category or tag ?

[Marcel]

I guess because the event end date is before today, it’s not a setting in the query loop

[Ying]

Can you take a screenshot of the query loop settings?

Let me know!

[Marcel]

see screenshot url in private area

[David]

That is rather odd, as you’re not defining any query parameters to exclude past dates.
I had a search on the plugins docs and found they use the eventDisplay parameter in their queries.
And by setting it to 'eventDisplay' => 'custom' you can avoid there being any assumptions.

So try:

1. Add this PHP Snippet to your site:

add_filter( 'generateblocks_query_loop_args', function( $query_args, $attributes ) {
	// Check your logic to apply the filtering only to specific loop
	if (
		! empty( $attributes['className'] ) &&
		strpos( $attributes['className'], 'tec-query' ) !== false &&
		! is_admin()
	) {
		// Merge the current $query_args which contains arguments defined in the editor with your ordering arguments
		return array_merge( $query_args, array(
			'eventDisplay' => 'custom',
		) );
    }

    return $query_args;
}, 10, 2 );

2. Select the Grid Block found inside the Query Loop block, and in Advanced > Additional CSS Class(es) add: tec-query

[Marcel]

Thanks David for you time and possible solutions! I tried your suggestion but it didn’t work, see url

[David]

Hmmm…. do you use any functions that change the the event calendars behaviour ?

[Marcel]

Hi David,

sorry for my late response I was on the road for 3 days.

Shall I give you access to the website?

There are extra TEC functions (translate strings) but I already deleted them to test after Fernando asked but that didn’t worked either.

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