Title: WordPress database error Unknown column 'ids'
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress database error Unknown column 'ids'

 *  [kenw232](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenw232/)
 * (@kenw232)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-ids/)
 * Everytime I goto a date with for the events calendar such as [http://www.domain.com/calendar-of-events/category/family/2010-07/](http://www.domain.com/calendar-of-events/category/family/2010-07/)
   I get a WP database error in my web server error.log:
 * [Mon Sep 23 08:16:41 2013] [error] [client 173.238.123.32] WordPress database
   error Unknown column ‘ids’ in ‘field list’ for query SELECT DISTINCT ids FROM
   wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.
   object_id) INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tt1 ON (wp_posts.ID = tt1.object_id)
   INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id) AND wp_postmeta.
   meta_key = ‘_EventStartDate’ LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta as tribe_event_end_date ON(
   wp_posts.ID = tribe_event_end_date.post_id AND tribe_event_end_date.meta_key 
   = ‘_EventEndDate’ ) WHERE 1=1 AND ( wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN(
   7) AND tt1.term_taxonomy_id IN (7) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = ‘tribe_events’ 
   AND (wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’) AND (wp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_EventStartDate’)
   AND ((wp_postmeta.meta_value >= ‘2010-07-01’ AND wp_postmeta.meta_value <= ‘2010-
   07-31’) OR (tribe_event_end_date.meta_value >= ‘2010-07-01’ AND wp_postmeta.meta_value
   <= ‘2010-07-31’ ) OR (wp_postmeta.meta_value < ‘2010-07-01’ AND tribe_event_end_date.
   meta_value >= ‘2010-07-31’ )) ORDER BY DATE(wp_postmeta.meta_value) ASC, TIME(
   wp_postmeta.meta_value) ASC made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘
   wp-includes/template-loader.php’), include(‘/themes/alterna1/page.php’), the_content,
   apply_filters(‘the_content’), call_user_func_array, TribeEventsTemplates::load_ecp_into_page_template,
   tribe_get_view, do_action(‘tribe_events_before_view’), call_user_func_array, 
   Tribe_Events_Month_Template->setup_view, Tribe_Events_Month_Template::get_daily_counts,
   TribeEventsQuery::getEventCounts, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts
 * How do I fix this? I think its slowing down the site.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/)

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 *  [Barry Hughes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websitebakery/)
 * (@websitebakery)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-ids/#post-4154655)
 * Is NextGen Gallery installed and activated on your site? Does deactivating it
   resolve this?
 *  Thread Starter [kenw232](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenw232/)
 * (@kenw232)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-ids/#post-4154657)
 * I tried this and it did not help much. I think its the theme. But I did hear 
   bad things about this nextgen gallery. Plus I don’t see the error much anymore
   for some reason.
 *  [Barry Hughes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websitebakery/)
 * (@websitebakery)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-ids/#post-4154687)
 * OK, well that’s the main thing 🙂

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/the-events-calendar/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=2516440)
 * [The Events Calendar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/)
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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Barry Hughes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websitebakery/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-ids/#post-4154687)
 * Status: not resolved