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September 14, 2021 at 9:38 am

Hi there,

Which specific ‘Upcoming’ and ‘on sale’ string are you looking to change?

To clarify in case it isn’t clear, you can’t change ALL instances of a string by using a partial translation. Meaning although you mentioned you want to change ‘on sale’, is that to change the ‘Goes on sale’ string? As you’d need to target that whole specific string and just ‘on sale’.

Copying the code from the forums can be tricky as there’s formatting here which will then throw a fatal error as above.

If you let me know the specific strings you are looking to change I’ll help point you in the right direction for doing so 🙂

October 15, 2021 at 5:03 am

Hi there,

Sorry we can not reply fast enough to the time you need to close topics. We are mostly volunteer-run and have a contractor working with us who is not full time with us. We wrote about this before. It would be helpful if we could re-open threads on our end, or have more time to reply.

No apology needed, just open up a new thread with reference to the old one and we can re-open and merge (which I have done here).

Threads automatically close after 2 weeks of no activity from the last reply date, that value is set globally so I can’t change that to give you specifically more time to reply.

To explain a little on why threads close, we try to keep threads on a specific topic and if we then allow users to reopen them again it would be pointless having them close at all. We’ve seen in the past some threads running across multiple different issues, mixing and matching problems/solutions and cross-referencing issues from earlier which just gets confusing for all in the end. So we prefer to keep threads on topic and handle each specific issue within that thread as much as we can and then close it, users being able re-opening threads and adding new issues to current threads just creates more confusion and more work on our end for little benefit.

We would like to change all of the instances of “Upcoming” on the events to “Registration Open.” In other words, on the archive pages of events. I don’t have an example to show you now because due to covid, we don’t have in-person events right now (only online). They all say “expired.” But where it says “expired” is where it would normally say “Upcoming” if the event were “Upcoming”. Here is an example: https://cloudup.com/cNZM5ovzVhX

Ok, so that’s the event status banner and I should add here that an ‘Upcoming’ event may not always have tickets on sale which means ‘Registration Open’ would not be correct.

Changing that status can be done using a snippet like this:

https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/5da1f1d8882ffac6925a332a8911d73e

For EE_Datetime::upcoming you could have something like:

$translation_array[EE_Datetime::upcoming] = array(
    'registration open', //singular
    __('upcoming', 'event_espresso'), //plural
);

The others can be removed if preferred but the above is what set the status string for ‘Upcoming’.

The word “on sale” in order to buy a ticket to an event sounds like a discount. We just want it to say “Log in to access” since it applies to our member tickets: https://cloudup.com/cVBBA5XgB-K

That’s using the ticket ‘on sale’ status, you could use the above snippet to change that by changing the strings for singular and plural like above:

$translation_array[EE_Ticket::onsale] = array(
    esc_html__('on sale', 'event_espresso'), //singular
    esc_html__('on sale', 'event_espresso'), //plural
);

This would go in as part of the above snippet and change the ‘On Sale’ status sitewide, however, as you’ve mentioned you want to use ‘Log in to access’ I’m assuming you want to only change that specific string in the image and we have a filter for that:

FHEE__EED_WP_Users_Ticket_Selector__maybe_restrict_ticket_option_by_cap__no_access_msg

Here is an example of using that filter to change the text:

https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/783dc4f9f43b9780d860112817edfd6d