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Stewart goodwin
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April 4, 2014 at 1:42 pm
How can we modify the upcoming events widget to display a date range (e.g. April 4-5, 2014) instead of what it displays by default?
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Dean
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April 7, 2014 at 1:06 am
Hi Stewart,
The only way to do this is to modify the actual widget.
You can do this by copying event-espresso/templates/widget.php over to wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates.
There you can edit the PHP to include the event date. I would do something liek this:
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<li><a href="<?php echo $registration_url; ?>"><?php echo stripslashes_deep($event->event_name) ?> - <span class="widget-event-date"><?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date) ?></span></a>
Change to
<li><a href="<?php echo $registration_url; ?>"><?php echo stripslashes_deep($event->event_name) ?> - <span class="widget-event-date"><?php echo date( 'd', strtotime( $event->start_date) ) . ' - ' . date('d M Y', strtotime( $event->end_date ) ) ?></span></a>
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Stewart goodwin
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April 11, 2014 at 8:32 pm
Thank you. I don’t seem to have a widget.php file in my file structure. I have a EEW_Upcoming_Events.widget.php but has different code:
<code>if ( $show_dates ) {
echo '<h6 class="ee-calendar_year-icon-small">' . __('Event Dates: ', 'event_espresso') . '</h6>';
echo espresso_list_of_event_dates( $event->ID(), 'D M jS, Y', '@ g:i a', FALSE );
}</code>
Any thoughts? I am using EE4.
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Dean
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April 14, 2014 at 5:52 am
Hi Stuart,
My apologies, I just didn’t see EE4 in the question title, so yes the code will be very different.
You are sort of in the right place with the EEW_Upcoming_Events.widget.php file. It is certainly the one that outputs the dates.
To make the changes you need though, it would require modifying a function called espresso_list_of_event_dates, which is found in the core/helpers/EEH_Event_View.helper.php file.
This is a pluggable file so can be copied to a custom plugin or to your theme’s functions.php.
Modifying this requires more assistance than we can provide in support, it really needs a developer to look at it. I spent some time examining it and to get it to do what you want will require an hour or more, or someone more skilled than I!
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