How to Display Past Events using the Events Calendar Plugin

Important

In Total 6.4 we've added new Query Types to the Post Cards element so you can easily display all, upcoming, past, ongoing and today's events!

Below is a sample function you could use to query past events from the Events Calendar Plugin (Tribe Events). This function would be used as a callback in one of the theme's elements such as the Post Cards element via the Advanced Query setting. This could be useful if you want to create a separate page to display all past events if you are currently excluding past events from the grids.

/**
 * Past Events Query Arguments.
 *
 * @link https://totalwptheme.com/docs/snippets/query-past-tribe-events/
 */
function myprefix_past_events_query_args() {
    if ( ! function_exists( 'tribe_get_events' ) ) {
        return [ 'post__in' => [ 0 ] ];
    }

    $past_events = [];

    $get_past_events = tribe_get_events( [
        'end_date' => 'now',
    ], false );

    if ( $get_past_events ) {
        foreach ( $get_past_events as $past_event ) {
            $past_events[] = $past_event->ID;
        }
    }

    $args = [
        'post_type' => [ 'tribe_events' ],
        'posts_per_page' => '50',
        'post__in' => $past_events ?: [ 0 ],
        'eventDisplay' => 'custom',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'order_by' => 'event_date',
        'tribe_suppress_query_filters' => true,
    ];

    return $args;
}

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This snippet was last updated on May 7, 2025