Events 'list Widget' date image to show month instead of day of the week?

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I need to change the formatting of the date icon shown on the list widget.
Currently the date icon shows the day of the week with the day number :
Example:

Thur
26

I need to make change it to show the month instead of the day.
Example:

May
26

I can’t seem to find the bit of code that is affecting that part of the plugin.
Could you help me with this please.

Thanks

[Geoff]

Hi there Mehrdad! Thanks for getting in touch and welcome back to the forums. 🙂

Good question. That icon is actually not an image, but styled completely with CSS. That’s a good thing, but it makes updating it much easier.

First, make a copy of the single-event.php template. It’s located at /plugins/events-calendar-pro/views/pro/widgets/modules/single-event.php. Then,

• Create a new folder in your theme directory called tribe-events
• Create a new folder in that one called pro
• Create a new folder in that one called widgets
• Create one more new folder in that one called modules
• Drop your copied single-event.php file in that last folder

Now that the file is in your theme, you can modify it to suit your needs. In this case, change this line:

<span
class="list-dayname"><?php echo apply_filters( 'tribe-mini_helper_tribe_events_ajax_list_dayname', date_i18n( 'D', $postDate ), $postDate, $class ); ?></span>

…to this:

<span
class="list-dayname"><?php echo apply_filters( 'tribe-mini_helper_tribe_events_ajax_list_dayname', date_i18n( 'M', $postDate ), $postDate, $class ); ?></span>

That should change the icon so it shows the abbreviated month name (e.g. Jan) instead of the day of the week.

Cheers!
Geoff

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That worked great! Thanks.
There’s only one thing I need to mention.
Events calendar pro is a neat plugin and you can do a lot of customization but most of it has to be done with template overrides. It would be great if most of these customizations could be done under the widget settings or general settings. Every time I create a new site that needs a calendar, it takes me a while to make all the customization I need.

Please consider this for future updates. It is just this close to be the perfect WordPress Calendar plugin.

Thanks so much for your quick responses.

[Geoff]

Hi Mehrdad! Awesome, I’m so glad that worked out and accomplished what you were looking for. 🙂

Thanks for the feedback as well. As you noted, the calendar is very customizable. If you have specific ideas for what sort of customizations you would like to see done without template overrides and how those might work, we’d love to hear about them on our UserVoice forum. That’s where we take new feature suggestions.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread since you marked it as Resolved, but please feel free to reach back out if any other questions pop up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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