Custom Date/Time on Event Page

[Patti]

I apologize if this is in the forum already… I couldn’t find it.

Here’s what I would like to do – The event is March 9, 2012, 9:00 am to 11:00 am.

On the event page, I want it to show:
Date: March 9, 2012
Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Right now it’s showing two lines, “Start” & “End” with the the full date/time on each line.

I can see in the single.php template where it is, I’m just too cross eyed to figure out how to make it do what I want it to do!

[Rob]

Hey Patti. Thanks for the note; not seeing any past discussions on this here in the forum myself, so let me see what our dev Jonah can suggest when he hits the forums this afternoon.

[Patti]

I think I’ve got something almost worked out, but it’s pretty ugly. Hopefully he has something a bit more refined. 😉

[Jonah]

Hi Patti, this should do it: https://gist.github.com/2026688 – just copy that in single.php for the whole date/time block that’s there now. Make sure you’re overriding single.php too by placing a copy in an ‘events’ folder in your theme 🙂

You’ll notice in the code that it will first check to see if the start time/end time are different and if they are, then it uses the first block of code displaying the event date and start time/end time like you wanted. Otherwise, if the times are equal (i.e. not set), then it will just display the date.

If you need to tweak the date/time any more, the PHP date() reference is great: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

[Patti]

That’s almost the same as where I got to. Yours is much prettier, though. 😉

Thank you!

[Rob]

Thanks Patti – so it sounds like you’re set, right? Let me know if not. Otherwise have a great evening and let us know what else we can do along these lines as you keep using the plugin.

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