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.