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September 16, 2016 at 2:22 pm

Hello EE team.

I managed to create a custom taxonomy with the following code on functions.php, and created a simple taxonomy-ciudad.php on my template to show my posts.

The problem is, I have no idea how to filter the query for my taxonomy template, so it gets only active events, and order them by start date. Normally I’d use a function on my template’s functions.php with pre_get_post and order by meta_values, but EE4 creates the dates on its own db table, not on postmeta. So offcourse something like this won’t work:

//This code has no use because start_date is not a meta_key
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'customise_speakers_taxonomy_archive_display' );
	function customise_speakers_taxonomy_archive_display ( $query ) {
		if (($query->is_main_query()) && (is_tax('ciudad'))){
			$query->set( 'posts_per_page', '9' );
			$query->set( 'meta_key', 'start_date' );           
        		$query->set( 'orderby', 'meta_value' );
			$query->set( 'order', 'DESC' );
		}
	}

Even though I really want to use the taxonomy-ciudad.php template, I also tried to use a custom query like the one here: https://gist.github.com/idliketofly/d754f45c0861023d7529 but I didn’t know how to make it work with the custom taxonomy.

I currently use Event Espresso 4.9.11.p on WordPress 4.6.1.

I’d appreciate any help.

• This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Josh. Reason: move larger block of code to a gist for better readability
• This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by luis camargo.