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1. sugupal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello,
   I am sort of new to wp and wondering if there is a way to do the following:

   I have a list of posts that represent events.
   I want to tag or classify each post/event with the date of the day they will be happening. but I will be posting them before hand so the post date and the event date are different.
   Then I want to have a code that gets the current "today's" date and calls all the posts tagged or classified with that date "today's" date.
   I know it is quite complicated but if anybody has an idea on how to do this I would really appreciate it.

2. Edward Caissie
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Have you looked at "Event Calendar" plugins?

3. sugupal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   yes, I did look into calendar plug-ins but I really didn't found exactly what I wanted.
   Besides, right now my site is quite complicated and I want to keep it as simple as possible.
   But the good news is that I am almost there!
   I found a snippet that adds a "Date" custom field and then compares it to todays date and displays the posts that have an equal or greater date, so in other words upcoming events.

   <?php
   // Get today's date in the right format
   $todaysDate = date('m/d/Y');
   query_posts('showposts=10&meta_key=Date&meta_compare=<=&meta_value=' . $todaysDate . '&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC'); ?>

   The only problem is that I only want to show the posts that have a date equal to today's date. So I tried this (but it is not working):

   <?php
   // Get today's date in the right format
   $todaysDate = date('m/d/Y');
   query_posts('showposts=10&meta_key=Date&meta_compare===&meta_value=' . $todaysDate . '&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC'); ?>

   As you might notice I am super new to php and would really appreciate some light to this issue.

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