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February 8, 2016 at 6:46 am

Hi Amanda,

The EE Upcoming events widget is a standard WP Widget so you can clone the original into a Site Specific Plugin to create your own copy, rename the widget to something custom and alter the output to suit.

Here is an example when I previously did just that:

https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/d0d5f485ae0599e56e20

So then within that custom widget you can alter the output all you need and continue to update Event Espresso without a problem.

February 15, 2016 at 9:35 am

Hi Amanda,
There is an open ticket to fix the tags issue for the excerpt field, but in the meantime you need a way to get basic formatting into the event excerpt.

One way you can get basic formatting into the event excerpt right now is use a plugin like Advanced Custom Fields. If you’ve used ACF before, you’ll know that it makes it fairly easy to add your own custom fields to WP posts and pages. It also allows for adding custom fields to Events. So for example you can create a text box editor field and call it

my_event_excerpt.

Once you have your custom field set up, you open up the custom widget plugin that Tony recommended in an editor, and change this line of code to use your custom field:

$desc = $event->short_description( 25 );

you change it to use Advanced Custom Field’s function instead:

$desc = the_field( "my_event_excerpt", $event->ID() );

Then part 2, where you want to remove the times from display. One way to do that is you set the $time variables to have an empty string like this:

$time_format = ' ';
$single_time_format = ' ';

Or another way, if you’re not using a custom widget template, you can use these filters to pass an empty string in a little function:

FHEE__espresso_event_date_range__single_time_format
FHEE__espresso_event_date_range__time_format