saotome

I wanted to update this thread in case it’s useful to others (or my future self!).

My problem:

• My site uses Events Manager and event tags to list artists who have played in my concert series.
• The tag archive pages (e.g. /events/tags/artist-name/) were only showing future events. Past events weren’t displayed, even though they’re tagged correctly.
• I wanted those tag pages to act as an archive, listing all events, not just upcoming ones.

What didn’t work:

• The helpful suggestion from @joneiseman does indeed change the global default scope to “all,” but it affects all event listings everywhere — which I didn’t want.
• Trying filters like em_object_get_default_search or em_events_build_sql_conditions didn’t work either because those filters don’t fire for tag archive pages in this context.
• Adding ?scope=all to the tag archive URLs also didn’t change anything.
• The solution that worked:
• I created a custom WordPress template file:

/wp-content/themes/my-child-theme/taxonomy-event-tags.php

• Inside that file, I added:

<?php
/**
 * Template for Event Tag Archives
 * Shows all events (past + future) for the current tag
 */

get_header(); ?>

<div id="content-wrap" class="container clr">

    <main id="primary" class="site-main clr">

        <?php
        $term = get_queried_object();

        if ( $term && ! is_wp_error( $term ) ) :
            $tag_slug = $term->slug;

            echo '<h1 class="archive-title" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;">Events tagged: ' . esc_html( $term->name ) . '</h1>';

            echo '<div class="events-list">';
            echo do_shortcode('[events_list scope="all" tag="' . esc_attr( $tag_slug ) . '"]');
            echo '</div>';

        else :
            echo '<p>No tag found.</p>';
        endif;
        ?>

    </main>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

• This uses the [events_list] shortcode with scope="all" and dynamically inserts the current tag slug, so all past and future events appear for any tag.

Thanks:

Big thanks to @joneiseman for helping me understand the scope settings better. Even though the global filter didn’t end up being the right tool here, it helped me figure out what wasn’t working and why.

• This reply was modified 11 months ago by saotome.

I just checked again — and now the Events page is displaying correctly, without any changes on my side.

It’s not clear what caused the issue in the first place or why it resolved itself (caching, external dependencies, timing?), but I wanted to share this update in case it helps others.
I’ll keep monitoring the situation and will report back if the problem returns.

Could anybody please please at least attempt to help me?

In order to make things a bit clearer I have now cloned my website. There now is a 6.6.3 version and a broken 6.6.4 version.

For example:

This is how this page should look like. But with 6.6.4 it looks like this hot mess.

Then there is this video docu which is broken in 6.6.4 in this way: not a single video showing anymore

This might help as well… The landing page has that link at the bottom which works here but is broken here (because of </div>s in the link that aren’t there in the 6.6.3 version.

Please dear people help!

Thank you!

OH! Thank you for the SUPER quick answer!

So the order is important, I see. I had “order=”desc”” but had put it at the end of that line.. which didn’t work.

Thank you so much!