Advanced Custom Fields datepicker: Show only events with a date of today or in the future. Extra comments from Pasnon @ ACF Forums: f you needed to, you could also play with the comparison date, which is the first array in meta_query, currently set to date("Y-m-d") which is today; if you were to make it date("Y-m-d", strtotime("-1 day")) you cou…

acf-future-posts.php

<?php 
/*
 * Display posts only from today and in the future:
 * http://old.support.advancedcustomfields.com/discussion/6000/how-to-sort-posts-by-acf-date-and-display-only-future-posts
 * by Pasnon
 */


$date_args = array(
        'post_type'   => 'events',
        'meta_key' => 'event_start_date',
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
        'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'meta_query'=> array(
            array(
              'key' => 'event_start_date',
              'compare' => '>',
              'value' => date("Y-m-d"),
              'type' => 'DATE'
            )
        ),
    );
    $date_query = new WP_Query( $date_args ); ?>
 
<?php

/*
 * Display posts only from today or 30 days into the future: * 
 */

    $date_args = array(
        'post_type'   => 'events',
        'meta_key' => 'event_start_date',
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
        'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'meta_query'=> array(
            array(
              'key' => 'event_start_date',
              'compare' => '>',
              'value' => date("Y-m-d"),
              'type' => 'DATE'
            ),
            array(
              'key' => 'event_start_date',
              'compare' => '<=',
              'value' => date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+30 days")),
              'type' => 'DATE'
            )
        ),
    );
    $date_query = new WP_Query( $date_args );