[Unknown column ‘EventStartDate’ in ‘order clause’]

I also ran into this issue. My query is a simple:

$events = new WP_Query( array(
	'paged'				=> $current_page,
	'posts_per_page'	=> $per_page,
	'post_type'			=> 'tribe_events',
	'post_status'		=> array( 'publish' ),
	'meta_query'		=> array( array(
		'key'		=> '_EventEndDateUTC',
		'value'		=> date( 'Y-m-d', strtotime( 'today' ) ),
		'compare'	=> '<',
		'type'		=> 'DATE',
	) ),
) );

I can suppress this error by stating 'suppress_filters' => true, but that doesn’t seem right.

I’m getting a similar error when using the Beaver Builder plugin ( Premium edition) + Beaver Themer, but I found out that the error is actually coming from the TEC plugin’s Tribe__Events__Query::posts_orderby() method. In our case, the fix was this filter code:

add_filter( 'tribe_query_can_inject_date_field', function( $can_inject, $query ) {

    if ( 'tribe_events' == $query->query[ 'post_type'] ) {
        return false;
    }

    return $can_inject;
}, 10, 2 );

Hey there! Glad to hear that you have found a fix for your issue!

This thread has been inactive for a while so we’re going to go ahead and mark it Resolved. Please feel free to open a new thread if any other questions come up and we’d be happy to help. ??