If you want to display certain data for the loop, just use the wordpress query_posts command http://codex.wordpress.org/User:JamesVL/query_posts

Just use this snippet of code before the loop
< ?php
$today = date('Y-m-d');
query_posts('category_name=events&meta_key=eventdate&meta_compare=>=&meta_value='.$today.'&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC'); ?>

My flutter custom data key is named “eventdate” in the code. the meta compare function in the code will compare the current date with the flutter data and not display any past entries.

I’ve been trying to accomplish the same effect on my website’s events section, but I can’t seem to get the code working right. I have very minimal coding knowledge but from what it looks like, the date format is pulled from this php function date(‘Y-m-d’) and compared against the flutter date format? You mentioned that the flutter format should be set to 4/20/08, but wouldn’t that be written as (‘n/j/y’) ?

Either way I can’t seem to get it to display properly on my site. Currently I have been using some extra code in my functions.php file to keep the dates in the events category listed in order according to the flutter custom date key, I thought that perhaps this is overriding the above code?

This is what I’m using in the functions file.

add_action(‘wp’, ‘check_category’);
function check_category () {
if (in_category(’1′)) {
add_filter(‘get_previous_post_sort’, ‘sort_it’);
add_filter(‘get_next_post_sort’, ‘sort_it’);
add_filter(‘posts_orderby’, ‘sort_it’ );
add_filter(‘posts_join’, ‘join_it’ );
add_filter(‘posts_where’, ‘where_it’ );

function sort_it () {
global $wpdb;

return ” $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value ASC “;
}

function join_it( $join ) {
global $wpdb;

$join .= ” LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id) “;

return $join;
}

function where_it( $where ) {
global $wpdb;
$where .= “AND $wpdb->postmeta.meta_key = ‘start_date’ “;

return $where;
}
}
}

It displays the events correctly according to the custom date key, but it still displays posts older than the current date.

Any insight would be appreciated. I just can’t seem to figure it out!