WP_Query with Monthly Pagination

This code snippet example uses WP_Query to group event posts by month and adds a pagination that queries the previous and next month’s event results. The custom post type is tribe_events and the custom field used to arrange is the start date: _EventStartDate.

<?php

$date = isset( $_GET[ 'date'] ) ? $_GET['date'] : date('Y-m');
$year = date('Y');
$start_date = strtotime(date( $date . '-01' ));

// Get today's date.
$today = date('Y-m-d');
// Find first date of current month.
$start_day = date('Y-m-01', $start_date);
$end_day = date('Y-m-t', strtotime($start_day));
// Find month-year of current query.
$current_month = date('F Y', strtotime($start_day));

// Add one month for "Next Month".
$next_month = date('Y-m', strtotime( "+1 month", strtotime($start_day) ));
// Substract for "Previous Month".
$previous_month = date('Y-m', strtotime( "-1 month", strtotime($start_day) ));

$args = array( 
	'post_type'      => 'tribe_events',
	'meta_key'       => '_EventStartDate',
    'posts_per_page' => 5,
    'orderby'        => 'meta_value',
    'order'          => 'ASC',
    'date'          => intval($date),
	'meta_query'     => array(
		'relation' => 'AND',
		array(
			'key'     => '_EventStartDate',
			'value'   => $today,
			'compare' => '>=',
		),
		array(
			'value'   => array($start_day, $end_day),
			'compare' => 'BETWEEN',
			'type'    => 'DATE',
		),
	),
);

$events = new WP_Query( $args );

if( $events ): ?>
	<section class="latest-events" id="<?php if( !empty($block['anchor']) ) { echo esc_attr( $block['anchor'] ); } ?>">
		<div class="wrapper">
			<div class="pagination grid">
				<div class="prev">	
					<i class="fas fa-angle-left"></i>
					<a href="?date=<?php echo esc_attr( $previous_month ); ?>"><?php esc_html_e( 'Previous Month', 'text-domain' ); ?> </a>
				</div>
				<div class="current-month"><?php echo esc_html( $current_month ); ?></div>
				<div class="next">
					<a href="?date=<?php echo esc_attr( $next_month ); ?>"><?php esc_html_e( 'Next Month', 'text-domain' ); ?> </a>
					<i class="fas fa-angle-right"></i>
				</div>
			</div>
			<ul class="events-list">
			
			<?php if ( $events->have_posts() ) : ?>
			
				<?php while ( $events->have_posts() ) : $events->the_post();
				?>

					<li class="events-single">
					// Event Info
					</li>
			
				<?php endwhile; ?>
			
			<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
			
			<?php endif; ?>

			</ul>

		</div>
	</section>
<?php endif; ?>

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