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February 18, 2016 at 5:17 pm

Did you see my suggestion to change the function call inside that template?
https://eventespresso.com/topic/event-description-showing-date-description-and-ticket-button-in-listing/#post-193119

Along with that, you could also try removing those two do_actions there as well.

February 18, 2016 at 6:29 pm

This means something is triggering adding the extra elements via filters on the_content().

You could try replacing the_content(); with
echo get_the_content();

get_the_content() will not have any of the filters on the_content, which will fix the issue you’re seeing with the extra elements. There’s a downside to this though, because none of the filters that normally get applied to the_content get applied to get_the_content(). So if you use shortcodes or need to apply some formatting to the event description, using get_the_content() isn’t going to be a long-term solution.

February 19, 2016 at 4:13 am

Hi Allan,

Which version number of EE4 are you using? Those line number don’t match up with the latest version.

Do you have other EE template files loading from within your theme? If so which files do you have?

The filter for the_content is first removed then added back in. If I comment out the add_filter at line 245 the page works properly without the duplicates.

That works because your removing the filter that adds the details, its not the root cause of the problem. Something is calling the_content more than once and so the details added by that filter are added more than once.

February 19, 2016 at 4:35 am

Can you create a full site backup and update to the latest version please.

loop-espresso_events.php should not be loaded within your theme, can you first rename that file, use something like loop-espresso_events2.php just to prevent it from loading.

Do you need full control over all of the templates?

The reason I ask is with the latest version of Event Espresso it is possible to use the custom ordering within the Event Espresso settings AND load custom templates at the same time. If all you are doing is changing the order the order of the details you could do that with EE now but I can see you also add some additional divs for styling, is that to all templates?

Basically you can use EE to set a custom template order and then tell EE to load your custom templates from within your theme. The difference being that EE controls when and how everything it loaded, you just style your templates to suit how you want.

I think that would work better if you want to try that?

February 19, 2016 at 5:20 am

What I would recommend doing is creating a copy of your child theme, rename the copy to iag_child_original or something.

That way you can always revert back to that version of the child theme if anything goes wrong.

Then start by moving all of the EE templates into their own directory (which will stop them loading) then checking how EE loads.

Then all you’ll need to do is move the template files you’ve added code to into the root fold again (I’d do this one by one and test between, to confirm they do what is expected)

These templates would NOT be the templates that load other templates, like content-espresso_events.php but the individual templates, like:

content-espresso_events-details.php
content-espresso_events-datetimes.php

Etc.

What will happen is EE will check your themes root directory for a copy of those individual templates and then use that modified template within the new custom order feature. So you get the best of both.

Controlling the templates from beginning to end means you need to do all of this manually.

One gotcha you may run into is with single-espresso_events.php and archive-espresso_events.php, Event Espresso checks if those templates are being used and disables the custom ordering, why? Because it assumes your taking over full control of the templates again.

We can prevent that from happening but start by getting your custom templates to load with the custom ordering (don’t use the single-espresso_events.php or archive-espresso_events.php template files within root)

February 22, 2016 at 2:42 am

Is this a live site, ie can I view the page?

The page you have this shortcode:

[ESPRESSO_EVENTS category_slug=”kids”]

loading on, is that set to use your ‘Event Details’ template from above? (single-espresso_events.php)

February 22, 2016 at 3:42 am

You can use the form here:

https://eventespresso.com/send-login-details/

February 22, 2016 at 6:16 pm

Normally that should not be necessarily. When you remove that filter, you’re removing a symptom, not the root cause of why those are being output twice.