Custom date fields fail to split past and upcoming
Date-field queries fail to hide past events or show upcoming ones, and some return no posts at all.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 22 July 2024 · last reported 5 June 2025
What's going wrong
Event sites, restaurant menus, and dated archives use a date stored in a custom field to decide what appears.
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