How to display past event details

Hi,

I don’t know why a 404 is returned, normally the single event page opens and this is similar to how a default post opens. Do you have a link to your archive page? But first you can save your permalink again and see what happens.

Besides this, I don’t recommend using default archive pages because events are not ordered by event date on these pages.

Guido

Thanks for the response. It turns out my custom code to alter the archive query did not include !is_singular(), so it was trying to display query results on the details page, causing the error.

For the default archive, I used pre_get_posts to do the following.

$meta_query = array(
            'relation' => 'AND',
            array(
                'key' => 'event-date',
                'compare' => 'EXISTS',
            ),
            array(
                'key' => 'event-date',
                'value' => time(),
                'compare' => '>=',
                'type' => 'NUMERIC',
            ),
        );

 $query->set( 'meta_query', $meta_query );

        $query->set( 'meta_key', 'event-date' );        
        $query->set( 'orderby', 'event-date' ); 

Hi,

The event-date value (timestamp) is stored as UTC+0 so if you’re in another time zone and compare this with time() it will not match exactly. Depending on the time zone 1 or multiple hours.

Guido

Please ignore my previous reply. Function time() is the UTC+0 time. I thought time zone was taken into account, but it’s not.

Guido