Event description character limit on Photo style event page

[Annette]

Hi,
I am trying to make our Events page more uniform by limiting the number of characters in the description on the Photo events page. I don’t want to use the excerpt box because I would need to open over 300 events and add them. Is there a setting somewhere that I could type the number of characters I want shown? If not, could you add it to your list of improvements for me? I know there is probably some code hack that you can send me but it would be so much easier for non coders to have the option in settings. I need to resize some of the images to make the events line up across the page.
Thanks!

[Jennifer]

Hi Annette,

Thanks for reaching out!

There is not currently a way to do this from within the Events settings (the excerpts used in the photo and list views are generated in the same way as the excerpts for other post types on your site when there is no manual excerpt set – you can read more about how this works here).

For now, you can add the following to the functions.php file of your child theme to limit the word count just for photo view:

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', function( $length ) {
return function_exists( 'tribe_is_photo' ) && tribe_is_view('photo')
? 20
: $length;
}, 1000 );

If this is a feature that you would like to see added in the future, please do let us know over in our Feature Ideas Forum! This is what we use to gauge user interest in new features and help guide future development efforts.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks,

Jennifer

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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