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1. mendezki
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   Posted 3 years ago #

   For an event calendar I'm retrieving posts from a certain category by custom fields. The start date custom field name is start-date, end date, you guessed it: end-date

   It retrieves posts with an end date >= now, and should order the output by the end date.

   I'm using the query below. There's 2 LEFT JOIN's in there to provide the value for the start and end date. Is there a better way to do this?

   $querystr = "
   SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts
   LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta AS eventend ON(
   $wpdb->posts.ID = eventend.post_id
   )
   LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta AS eventstart ON(
   $wpdb->posts.ID = eventstart.post_id
   )
   LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships ON($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id)
   LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON($wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id)
   WHERE $wpdb->term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category'
   AND $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id = 23
   AND $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'published'
   AND eventend.meta_key = 'event-end'
   AND eventend.meta_value >= NOW()
   AND eventstart.meta_key = 'event-start'
   ORDER BY eventstart.meta_value ASC
   ";
   
   $eventlist = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);
   ?>

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