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November 25, 2015 at 4:34 am

Hi there,

With Event Espresso you can have multiple ‘datetimes’ within an event, so the post date (which is what your theme is outputting on that archive listing) will always be the date the event was created.

To fix this you’ll need to alter template used to output those details, is this a custom theme or one you have purchased?

November 25, 2015 at 5:55 am

I would recommend creating a child theme rather the modifying the theme files directly.

When which template file is being loaded on that page, you can use a plugin such as What The File to find this. Install the plugin, load the page whilst logged in and view the templates loaded within the admin bar.

You’ll likely find it’s the archive.php file and it could be loading other template parts within that.

Find which file is loading the post date and copy that into your child theme, then within a espresso_events post type check:

if ( 'espresso_events' == get_post_type() ) {
// Run code specifically for EE events
}

You’ll need to grab the datetimes for the event and use the next upcoming datetime. Here is an example of how to pull the next upcoming datetime for an event:

https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/f4d151e4784c6aa67a3d

So then within the correct sections you can use:

//echo the day
$datetime->e_start_date('d');

//echo the month
$datetime->e_start_date('M');

//echo the year
$datetime->e_start_date('Y');

Again you’ll want to wrap that in a espresso_events post type check to output those details for EE events, but the original details for other post types.

November 25, 2015 at 7:29 am

Here’s what I don’t understand. This was working correctly until some point, not sure when.

The post date of the event post has never been the actual event date as that is actually the datetime date. So I’m not sure how this worked previously if theme used the those details.

But this is the page auto-generated by Event Espresso as defined in the Event Listings URL.

The output is not auto generated by Event Espresso, it is auto generated by your theme we just hook in and inject the event details to the content.

The /events/ listing is an archive of the espresso events post type so your theme outputs the archive and EE hooks into ‘the_content’ and adds the event details to that. We do not hook in and output a date like it is displayed on your current page, that’s all your theme using the post date.

Please let me know how you get on.

November 26, 2015 at 4:53 am

Hi Auric,

Looking at the above it does look like the /parts/post-content/ template file is the template you need to copy over and modify.

However that file may also call other templates so it depends on the contents.

Looking at the shortcode for the page you linked – http://take.ms/t5gWO

I would search the theme for link-day/month/year and short-date classes to narrow down where that output is coming from.

November 26, 2015 at 8:05 am

Can you send me a copy of the theme please, I need to view the code to see whats happening.

You can email a copy to support[at]eventespresso.com although depending on the size you may need to host the file and send us a link to download if from that.