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August 17, 2023 at 4:00 pm

Hi there,

Does ALM have filters for its query args?

August 18, 2023 at 10:05 am

If they can’t offer any help, can I ask whether sold out events can just keep their status of ‘published’?

The short and sweet answer to this is no.

I’d also recommend against going down this route, for the sake of being able to pass a post status to a query your shoehorning Event Espresso functions around.

But let’s see, this may be possible.

Where are you hooking in to pass the event IDs from the previous post?

August 21, 2023 at 9:12 am

It does, your passing the ID’s as a shortcode parameter and not through a filter so it doesn’t help for what I was looking for.

Hmm, so it doesn’t have a way for you to pass the post status, you could filter pre_get_posts but that’s going to run everywhere so then have to do a bunch of checks…

ALM has a filter for the query_args used in the query:

https://connekthq.com/plugins/ajax-load-more/docs/filter-hooks/#alm_query_args

apply_filters( 'alm_query_args_' . $id, $args, $post_id );

You have id="classeslisting" so your ID is classeslisting so try this:

add_filter('alm_qeury_args_classeslisting', 'tw_ee_add_sold_out_status_to_alm', 20, 2);
function tw_ee_add_sold_out_status_to_alm($args, $post_id) {
	$args['post_status'] = array('publish', 'sold_out');
	return $args;
}

Add that to a custom functions plugin, we have some docs on creating on here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/create-site-specific-plugin-wordpress-site/

Note the above is untested just based on the docs.

August 24, 2023 at 5:58 pm

:facepalm:

It didn’t work because there is a typo in my code!

Replace the snippet I gave you above with this….

add_filter('alm_query_args_classeslisting', 'tw_ee_add_sold_out_status_to_alm', 20, 2);
function tw_ee_add_sold_out_status_to_alm($args, $post_id) {
    $args['post_status'] = ['publish', 'sold_out'];
    return $args;
}

My original snippet used alm_qeury_args_classeslisting as the filter name, query is misspelt so the code didn’t run at all but the above works for me.

A couple of bits to note, ALM has a post_status shortcode parameter, which can be set to “any” (post_status="any") within the shortcode…. but… it will only show logged in users a status other than publish.

classeslisting is coming from id="classeslisting" in your shortcode so its specifically targeting that shortcode. However, when testing this locally I was also sometimes getting requests where ID wasn’t set, so the filter wouldn’t run, why I have no idea.

Just to show this working:

https://monosnap.com/file/bjo1O1liXFeHO2ZyYnYEjDjh7ZYHZY

With this shortcode:

https://monosnap.com/file/WCGnJLnzBohcAbE1guvzLpnImCudas