Question

I feel like im extremely close on this one but the query keeps on showing up empty. Basically, Im trying to query the custom values between two dates. if the start date is less than the current date AND the end date is greater than or equal to the current date

        $args = array(
        'taxonomy' => 'exhibition_type', 
        'term' => 'faculty',
        'numberposts' => 10,
        'post_type' => 'exhibitions',
        'meta_key' => 'start_date_of_event',
        'meta_query' => array(
            'relation' => 'AND',
                array(
                    'key' => 'start_date_of_event',
                    'value' => $current,
                    'compare' => '<'
                ),
                array(
                    'key' => 'end_event_date',
                    'value' => $current,
                    'compare' => '>='
                )
            ),
        'order_by' => 'meta_value_num',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'paged' =>  $paged
    );

keeps on turning up 0 results :'( I’m stuck at the moment. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

its possible. I entered my data in wrong 😀

Here is the working code:

   $args = array(
    'taxonomy' => 'exhibition_type', 
    'term' => 'faculty',
    'numberposts' => 10,
    'post_type' => 'exhibitions',
    'meta_key' => 'start_date_of_event',
    'meta_query' => array(
        'relation' => 'AND',
            array(
                'key' => 'start_date_of_event',
                'value' => $current,
                'compare' => '<'
            ),
            array(
                'key' => 'end_date_of_event',
                'value' => $current,
                'compare' => '>='
            )
        ),
    'order_by' => 'meta_value_num',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'paged' =>  $paged
);

This code uses two meta_values (start_date_of_event & end_date_of_event) and compares that to the current date which is ( $current = date(‘Ymd’); ). Hope this helps others. 😀