Canceling an event without wiping it out

[Jim]

We need to cancel a couple of recurring outdoor events in the hot summer months. I have put “Event canceled” in the individual listings and have changed the excerpt for those months to reflect the cancellation and some info about when they’ll be continued. Problem is, in the Event page itself, I can only change the Title to say “Event Canceled” but the date and time are still there. Someone not reading carefully might think the event is still on.

Is there a way to take the Date and Time out of the individual event posts? My only alternative is to delete the posts for those months entirely, leaving a vacuum of information.

Thanks for your help.

Jim H.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Jim and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.

That is a great question.
I would love to help you with this topic.

I guess there is no “right” answer on this one. In the end, it will depend on how you want to handle it.
If you remove the date and time out of the posts, the issue is that people will not know what is being cancelled (when was that event supposed to take place).

As an alternative, you might consider using the line-through text-decoration.

In any case, if you want to hide part of the information or use the line-through as described above, the best (and only) “simple” solution would be to do it via CSS. To do that you will need rules by post ID.

Here’s what this might look like in the single event view:

.postid-2140 #tribe-events .tribe-events-schedule h2, .postid-2140 #tribe-events .tribe-events-start-date, .postid-2140 #tribe-events .tribe-events-start-time {text-decoration: line-through}

or

.postid-2140 #tribe-events .tribe-events-schedule h2, .postid-2140 #tribe-events .tribe-events-start-date, .postid-2140 #tribe-events .tribe-events-start-time{display: none !important;}

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

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