Enable excerpts for venues?

[dtcaldwell]

Is there a straightforward way to enable post Excerpts for Venues? We want to provide a directory page for all of our (150) venues, which is easy. If Venues could have excerpts, we could provide presentable short descriptions of each venue in the directory. Without excerpts all we can get are cropped chunks of the main content.

I noticed you have a slick mechanism for customizing Venue slugs and labels. Is there a similar way to enable Excerpts?

[George]

Hey @dtcaldwell,

You should be able to do this without issue by using WordPress Core’s own function called “add_post_type_support()”, which you can read about in-depth here → https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_type_support

Here’s an example of some code with it that you could add to your theme’s functions.php file to add excerpts to Venues:


if ( class_exists( 'Tribe__Events__Main' ) ) {
/**
* Adds excerpts to the "Venue" post type.
*
* @link http://theeventscalendar.com/?p=1044777
*/
function tribe_add_excerpts_to_venues() {
add_post_type_support( Tribe__Events__Main::VENUE_POST_TYPE, 'excerpt' );
}

add_action( 'init', 'tribe_add_excerpts_to_venues' );
}


I hope this helps!

Cheers,
George

[dtcaldwell]

Thanks, George. That works perfectly.

[George]

Nice! Glad to hear it.

Best of luck with your project,
George

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