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Julie Hinton
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April 5, 2016 at 1:22 pm
I have an event for a high school reunion. We are selling tickets for 2 different nights. We will have people sign up who are possibly bringing a spouse on either night. People are finding it confusing when signing up for the first night they are “Attendee 1 & 2” and on the second night are “Attendee 3 & 4”. Is there a way to make the attendee number reset for the second night signup (since they will be the same people), or simply prevent the number from showing on the page? I have looked through the forum and cannot find an answer. Thanks.
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Tony
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April 5, 2016 at 1:27 pm
Hi Julie,
You can’t easily reset the number, however you can change it not to show a number at all.
Would you prefer just ‘Attendee’ or another phrase?
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Julie Hinton
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April 5, 2016 at 1:53 pm
Okay, that works. How about just removing the number and leaving it “attendee”?
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Tony
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April 5, 2016 at 2:01 pm
Sure.
The easiest way to do that is by translating the string to remove the number. We have an example of a function you can use to do that here:
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/how-to-change-wording-with-poedit/#custom-function
The string to translate would be ‘Attendee %d’, the %d is a place holder for the number. So we can just translate the string to not use it, like this:
function mycustom_filter_gettext( $translated, $original, $domain ) {
// This is an array of original strings
// and what they should be replaced with
$strings = array(
'Attendee %d' => 'Attendee',
// Add some more strings here
);
// See if the current string is in the $strings array
// If so, replace its translation
if ( isset( $strings[$original] ) ) {
// This accomplishes the same thing as __()
// but without running it through the filter again
$translations = get_translations_for_domain( $domain );
$translated = $translations->translate( $strings[$original] );
}
return $translated;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'mycustom_filter_gettext', 10, 3 );
You can add that function to you child themes functions.php file or create a Site Specific Plugin and place it within that.
Does that help?
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Julie Hinton
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April 5, 2016 at 2:23 pm
I tried this using a plugin for functions, but it says there is an error. I don’t know about the syntax for functions. Do I need to add something before and/or after this code?
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Tony
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April 5, 2016 at 2:26 pm
Can you copy all of the code from your plugin and paste it on either http://pastebin.com/ or create a gist here so I can view the code please?
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Julie Hinton
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April 5, 2016 at 2:36 pm
Sorry, this is too complicated for me. I’ll just keep it the way it was originally written.
Thanks.
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Tony
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April 5, 2016 at 2:42 pm
I’ve wrapped my example up into a plugin you can install if that helps?
You can download it here – http://take.ms/b8o1A
When you have the .zip file go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New -> Upload plugin.
Select the .zip you downloaded from the above, upload and activate.
I’ve ran this through some quick testing on a live test site and found no problems.
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Julie Hinton
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April 5, 2016 at 3:18 pm
You are too kind. You all really go above and beyond to take care of people. Thank you so much. It works like a charm!
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Tony
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April 5, 2016 at 3:25 pm
You’re most welcome, Julie.
Any further problems just let us know 🙂
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