modify event calendar settings?

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  Posted by Collette Sosnowy on October 10, 2012 at 6:22 pm

  Hi,
  I’ve enabled the events calendar on my group’s blog (viewable here on the right hand side: http://internetresearchteam.commons.gc.cuny.edu/) but can’t figure out if and how I can modify the settings so that it does not list an event as October 1, 5:00PM – October 1, 6:00PM, for example. Is there a way to just have it listed as October 1, 5 – 6 pm?
  Appreciate any help, thanks!

• Scott Voth (he/him)

  Member

  October 11, 2012 at 8:09 pm

  Hi Collette – Are you heavily invested in using this particular plugin? If not, there is another plugin (“Events Manager”) that lets you do roughly the same thing, and its widget allows you to modify how date/time is displayed. See attached.

  The plugin you have installed also has template functionality, but it seems to be more involved to make such a simple change.

  All I did to get the time to show was add “_EVENTTIMES” to the “List Item Format” section of the widget. That section seems pretty configurable.

  Hope this helps.

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  Scott Voth (he/him)

  Member

  October 11, 2012 at 8:11 pm

  Just to be clear, the solution above works if you use “Event Manager” rather than “The Event Calendar” plugin.
  Keith Miyake

  Participant

  October 12, 2012 at 11:25 pm

  To add to Scott’s response, you can find the entire list of variables that you can use to customize the way events are displayed (using Events Manager) here: http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/

  You can view an example here, where in addition to customizing the date display, I’ve modified the styling and content of the whole thing: http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/ (left sidebar)

  The “format” is as follows (note: I’m using custom css classes to handle formatting)
  <span class="event-widget-date">#M #j, #_EVENTTIMES </span><br /> <span class="event-widget-name">#_LINKEDNAME</span>
  Collette Sosnowy

  Participant

  October 16, 2012 at 5:25 pm

  Thanks!