Thea G

Hi Kate,

I did something very similar and I had the same problem…it was showing all the dates and not making the comparison. The problem turned out to be the way the date is formatted. Make sure the value in your meta-key, ‘event’ is in the same format as $today. This is where your problem is in this example. You need to use “Y-m-d”. Also it is recommended to use new WP_Query instead of query_posts.

<?php $today = date('Y-m-d');
$args=array(
	'post_type' => 'event',
	'meta_key' => 'event-date',
	'meta-compare' => '>=',
	'meta-value' => $today,
	'orderby' => 'meta_value',
	'order' => 'ASC',
	'paged' => $paged
);
$event_loop = new WP_Query($args)

?>

For one thing, try to echo your variables so they get written to the html like this

<?php echo the_permalink();?>

You can accomplish this by creating a custom menu with a link to the category page.

It looks like you have this working now?

Hi Roland,

I think this problem is because you use html tables in your Particpants Database sign-up form where Contact Forms 7 uses div tags, so there is a different look.

Here is a little hack to the code.

open wordpress/wp-content/plugins/particpants-database/classes file name

Signup.class.php

you will find the table output starting on line 238.

And the line to edit is line 263 which is default:

<th><?php echo $column_title?></th>
<td>

change this line to:

<td><?php echo $column_title?>

This will put both the label and the input form inside the same column.

Of course, this change is going to be overwritten the next time I update my plugin, so is there a way to make this a unique form, like prehaps create a new class file called signupform7.php

Is that possible? Or is it bad?