Hiding Upcoming Events can be relatively useful when you are using ACF fields to show Dates for an an Event

The Following Snippet is an usage from Sage Theme

themes/mint/app/Controllers/App.php

public function getEvents(){
        
        $events    = array(
            'post_type'      => 'events',
            'posts_per_page' => -1,
            'post_status'    => 'publish',
            'meta_key'       => 'event_date',
            'orderby'        => 'meta_value_num',
            'order'          => 'ASC'
        );
        return $events;
        
    }

themes/mint/resources/views/partials/content-entertainment-events.blade.php

      @php $events  = new WP_Query($get_events)  @endphp
        @if($events->have_posts())
           @while($events->have_posts())
           @php $events->the_post()  @endphp
         

          

            

              

                

                  
                
                

                  @php
                    $date_string = get_field('event_date');
                    $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $date_string);
                    $current_date = date('d/m/Y');

                  @endphp
                  {{$date->format('l')}}
                  {{$date->format('F')}}
                  {{$date->format('d')}}
                
              

              

                

                  {{get_the_title()}}
                  {{get_field('event_punchline')}}
                  {{get_field('event_time')}}
                
                

                    
                      {{get_field('details_url_text')}}
                      
                    
                  
              
            
          

        @endwhile
        @php wp_reset_postdata() @endphp
      @endif