Title: Date comparison in do_shortcode
Last modified: April 28, 2022

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# Date comparison in do_shortcode

 *  [Jakub Machala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machi/)
 * (@machi)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-comparison-in-do_shortcode/)
 * Hi, this is more a suggestion than a question. Operators < > in things such as
   date comparison etc. echoed with do_shortcode function break rendering. For example
   such as this:
    `<?php echo do_shortcode('[ajax_load_more id="budouci_akce" preloaded
   ="true" preloaded_amount="6" seo="true" theme_repeater="event.php" post_type="
   event" posts_per_page="6" meta_key="datum" meta_value="'.current_time('Y-m-d').'"
   meta_compare=">=" meta_type="DATE" order="ASC" orderby="meta_value" pause="true"
   scroll="false" button_label="'.__('Load more events','targito').'" button_loading_label
   ="'.__('Loading events...','targito').'" button_done_label="'.__('All loaded','
   targito').'" no_results_text="'.__('There are no planned events right now.','
   targito').'"]'); ?>`
 * There is an easy fix, however ALM is mentioning just “lessthan” string in their
   docs here [https://connekthq.com/plugins/ajax-load-more/docs/code-samples/date-comparison/](https://connekthq.com/plugins/ajax-load-more/docs/code-samples/date-comparison/).
 * There are also other. I have been searching this for a while so please add it
   to the docs ALM team :).
 * Others are:
    - $meta_compare = ‘**lessthan**‘ === $meta_compare ? ‘**<**‘ : $meta_compare;
    - $meta_compare = ‘**lessthanequalto**‘ === $meta_compare ? ‘**<=**‘ : $meta_compare;
    - $meta_compare = ‘**greaterthan**‘ === $meta_compare ? ‘**>**‘ : $meta_compare;
    - $meta_compare = ‘**greatthanequalto**‘ === $meta_compare ? ‘**>=**‘ : $meta_compare;
 *  -  This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [Jakub Machala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machi/).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [Jakub Machala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machi/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/)
 * (@dcooney)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-comparison-in-do_shortcode/#post-15613509)
 * Nice, thanks for the nudge [@machi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machi/)

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