If you’ve done any work with The Event Calendar from Modern Tribe, then there’s a chance you’re familiar with some different ways to go about doing certain tasks.

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That is, programmatically creating events, altering events, setting up repeating events (if it’s the pro version), and so on.

What if, though, you need to go about querying event post types – some or all, doesn’t matter – and you find that your query isn’t working? And no, I’m not talking about using a raw SQL query or even a parameterized version with the $wpdb class.

I’m talking about WP_Query.

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If you work with any set of technologies for a long enough period, you’re going to develop a sense of what you love, what you like, what you dislike, and what you hate about it, right?

Honestly, I think this applies to just about anything we do, or we use regardless of if it’s related to our jobs or hobbies or what have you.

At this point, I’ve worked with WordPress long enough to develop a sense of all of that (and it’s not limited to the core application either).

And, to go ahead and be clear, this post is not about the problems that I see with WordPress or with anything tangentially related to it. Nor is it about the things that I think it does well.

Instead, it’s about asking why would anyone – you, me, or anyone else – keep using WordPress if they aren’t a fan of the platform for development?

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