Change display of _EventStartDate

[wplove]

I’m adding “_EventStartDate” to a slider plugin’s display code in order to display the start date of an event (along with the title of the event and description.) The result displays like this:
“2015-05-03 08:00:00”
I know this is the default way this meta-data displays, but is there any way to adjust this so it look more presentable?
“May 3, 2015, 8:00”
I don’t have access to php in the slider code window. Where would be the place to modify how this meta-data displays is its base presentation? And what would the settings need to be?

Thank you!

[Barry]

Hi!

Normally you would use the tribe_get_start_date() function to get a more “human-friendly” date format.

I’m not clear if you are unable to use PHP whatsoever or if you just mean that the slider plugin doesn’t expose a means of adding PHP through its user interface. If the latter is true, it may be that you need to devise a custom snippet and add it either through a plugin file of its own or else place it in your theme’s functions.php file.

As to the shape and form of the snippet, I’m afraid I can’t offer too much assistance there (our support for third party plugins being fairly limited).

Does that help, though, or at least give you a path you can explore further?

[wplove]

Thanks for the lead on this-I think your right on adding php to the slider-I could do it but it would require doing some other custom workaround to create a custom variable that I could drop in. This all may be a bit of a stretch for my limited php skills. I may have to find a clunkier work-around or commission someone to do it for me.

[wplove]

I’m not seeing “tribe_get_start_date()” listed on your page of functions:
https://theeventscalendar.com/functions/

The closest thing is “sp_get_start_date” but that’s marked as deprecated. Am I looking for more info on this function in the right place?

[Barry]

Hi wplove, if you look at my previous reply you’ll find I linked to the documentation for that function 🙂

[Barry]

Hi!

It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this topic.

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Thanks!

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