This Pro tutorial is a variation of the previous Upcoming Events Grouped by 'Month Year' in Bricks tutorial wherein the upcoming 'month year's are shown in BricksExtras Pro Accordion with the events corresponding to that month and year with the dates based on event_date post meta value.
Given this events list:
the output after implementing the tutorial as on 17 Jul 2024 would be:
We shall loop through the events, construct an array with the necessary data, set up a custom Bricks query type for the 'month year' query loop and an inner event posts query loop that uses the outer query loop object to pull the post IDs.
Step 1
Create the CPT and corresponding date-type custom field. ACF was used in our dev site.
CPT: event
Custom field: event_dateReturn format: Ymd
Create event posts and populate the event date field for each.
Step 2
Add the following in child theme's functions.php (w/o the opening PHP tag) or a code snippets plugin:
