Changing the general.php file

[James]

I want to edit the public>template-tags>general.php file. I can make edits in the plugin source files (and they work great), but I don’t know where to save the new file in my template, so that it won’t be replaced on plugin update.

[Barry]

That file is not intended to be overrideable, I’m afraid. Can you describe what you are trying to accomplish here? There might be an alternative way of doing it.

[James]

I have used it to insert a default image when the event doesn’t have a featured image set.

I also don’t want the big year divider to show when an event is in a prior year. At the very least, I need to be able to MOVE it (for some reason, the default is
month header — APRIL 2012
year divider — 2012
I can swap these around in the general.php file, but then if I update, they’ll be lost.

[Barry]

OK, so for featured images we use our own tribe_event_featured_image() function – this is filterable, though, using a hook of the same name so you could add a placeholder using some logic like this (which you might place in your theme’s functions.php file).

Similarly you can filter and adapt or remove the date separators using our tribe_events_list_the_date_headers filter hook.

Does that help?

[James]

Worked great.
There were a few changes, which I’ll share here in case someone else wants/needs to use it:

add_filter( 'tribe_event_featured_image', 'featured_event_img_placeholder' );
 
function featured_event_img_placeholder( $html ) {
        if ( empty( $html ) ) {
		$html = '<div class="default-calendar-icon tribe-events-event-image"><a href="'. tribe_get_event_link() .'" title="'. get_the_title( $post_id ) .'"><img src="http://fwatest.org/content/uploads/2014/03/Calendar-ICON.jpg" title="'. get_the_title( $post_id ) .'" /></a></div>';
		}
		
		 return $html;
}

THANK YOU!!!

[Barry]

Awesome 🙂

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