Hi Brajesh

Thank you for getting back to me.

I wonder if it’s possible I may have used the wrong terminology ie. I’m using ‘bblpro_post_submission_prepared_data’ to add (or update) some additional postmeta entries (based on a single entry in the BuddyBlog form), which are required by the Events Manager plugin eg. the plugin requires an entry for both ‘_event_start’ and ‘_event_start_local’.

This seems to work quite well but should I be using ‘bblpro_post_submitted’ instead?

The other issue I have is that when deleting a post with BuddyBlog Pro, it doesn’t automatically update the wp_em_events table which is why I was looking for an action related to this but hopefully one of those you’ve mentioned will do the trick.

Regards
Nik

Hi Brajesh

I think/hope it should work anywhere that Elementor Pro allows you to use a custom query, but I’ll get back to you if I come across anywhere that it doesn’t 😉

Regards
Nik

Hi Brajesh

Thank you so much. I’m pleased to report that both of the options you’ve suggested seem to work perfectly.

In waiting for your reply, I’d also put together my own custom query for the Elementor posts widget along very similar lines and which I thought I would post here for reference and/or just in case it’s of interest to anyone else…

add_action( 'elementor/query/my_custom', function( $query ) {
// Get current meta Query
	$meta_query = $query->get( 'meta_query' );

	// If there is no meta query when this filter runs, it should be initialized as an empty array.
	if ( ! $meta_query ) {
		$meta_query = [];
	}

	// Append our meta query
	$meta_query[] = [
		'key' => '_bblgroups_group_id',
		'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS',
	];

	$query->set( 'meta_query', $meta_query );    
} );

Note: I did wonder if I’d need to do the same for “Related Posts” widgets but so far I can’t find any evidence of group posts appearing as related to personal posts. Not sure if this is by luck or design(!) but I’ll monitor just in case.

As always, many thanks for your assistance.
Regards
Nik

Hi Brajesh

Thank you for your thoughts and I will give them some consideration.

Both BuddyBlog and Events Manager do what they’re designed to do really well, and my challenge all along has been to combine the best elements of both whilst presenting them in a coherent, user-friendly way (ideally with a single tab in the personal and group profiles).

I think I’m still going to struggle to list entries which are, let’s say, “pending”, according to BuddyBlog using an EM shortcode but will definitely explore that option a bit more.

I really am very grateful for all your support which I do appreciate is rather beyond the scope of your plugins themselves 😉

Regards
Nik

Hi Brajesh

Thank you so much. I had a feeling that might be the code I needed. I already tried using it previously but that was before removing the Events Manager scope so of course, nothing was working at that stage!

What I’m actually hoping to do is filter out past events, which will require a query on the post meta but I’m used to working with WP_Query so that hopefully shouldn’t be a problem.

I really do appreciate all your help and patience, and hopefully won’t need to trouble you on this particular aspect again 😉

Regards
Nik