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This Documentation is for SearchWP Version 3

The Events Calendar – Hide Past Events

Telling SearchWP to exclude past events from The Events Calendar is easily accomplished by taking advantage of the searchwp_exclude hook.

Adding this snippet to your theme’s functions.php will prevent SearchWP from including past events in search results:

<?php
function my_find_expired_events( $ids ) {
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'tribe_events',
'nopaging' => true,
'fields' => 'ids',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => '_EventEndDate',
'value' => date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' ),
'compare' => '<',
'type' => 'DATETIME',
),
),
);
$expired_events = get_posts( $args );
$ids = array_merge( $ids, $expired_events );
$ids = array_map( 'absint', $ids );
$ids = array_unique( $ids );
return $ids;
}
add_filter( 'searchwp_exclude', 'my_find_expired_events' );
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This hook is applied when searches are run, so it will automatically exclude past events based on the time the search takes place, there is no maintenance required.

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