Combining category and venue queries

[Andrew Shankie]

Hi Stephen,

I’m trying to query events at certain venue with a certain category. I have both queries working independently but when I try to use them together I get no results every time. Here’s my code…

$county = isset($_GET['county']) && $_GET['county']!== "-1" ? $_GET['county']:'';
 $category = isset($_GET['category']) && $_GET['category']!== "-1" ? $_GET['category']:'';

 $args = array( 
    'post_type' => 'event',     
    'event_start_before' => 'today'
  );

// Alternate params to query category 
// if( $category ) {
 //  $args['tax_query'] = array(
 //    array(
 //      'taxonomy' => 'event-category',
 //      'terms'    => $category
 //    ));
 // };

 if( $category ) {
  $args['event-category'] = 'slapstick';
 };

 if( $county ) {
  $args['venue_query'] = array(
    array(
      'key' => '_state',
      'value' => $county
    ));
 };

$event_query = new WP_Query($args);

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Andrew,

I’ve tested that, and it works for me. Are you sure that you’ve got events which are in both the county and category?

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