Fix for Next Events / More Events no longer working

[Benjamin]

I had followed the fix recommended in this post:

Modify Previous Events & Next Events Pagination

To change the “next events” pagination link to “more classes,” but this approach which adds an argument to the functions file no longer works with the most recent update of The Events Calendar.

Please advise.

Thanks!

[George]

Hey @Benjamin!

Thanks for reaching out.

That thread is indeed quite outdated, and its code is not valid. Our plugins are coded much differently these days, and so the first thing you’d need to is use the code from this article to change the word “Events” to “Classes” → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/changing-the-word-events-to-something-else/

Once that’s done, you can change the word that precedes “Event/s” by adding this code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file below the code from the above article:


function tribe_custom_theme_text( $translations, $text, $domain ) {

$custom_text = array(
'Previous %s' => 'Older %s',
'Next %s' => 'More %s',
);

if ( array_key_exists( $text, $custom_text ) ) {
$text = $custom_text[ $text ];
}

return $text;
}

add_filter( 'gettext', 'tribe_custom_theme_text', 20, 3 );


If you use both principles together, instead of “Previous Events” and “Next Events” you will have “Older Classes” and “More Classes”, respectively.

Now, you do not have to use “Older Classes”, of course, that’s just an example of how you could change the “Previous” text to something else.

If you only to change the “Next” text to “more”, then you can just make that $custom_text variable above look like this instead of what you see in the above snippet:


$custom_text = array(
'Next %s' => 'More %s',
);


I hope this all helps!

— George

[Benjamin]

George, thank you for your quick response!

The first step (changing Events to Classes) works for me, but when I added the snippet of code you’ve included below that I get a syntax error.

Here’s everything as I currently have it:

add_filter( ‘tribe_event_label_singular’, ‘event_display_name’ );
function event_display_name() {
return ‘Class’;
}

add_filter( ‘tribe_event_label_plural’, ‘event_display_name_plural’ );
function event_display_name_plural() {
return ‘Classes’;
}

// Change next classes to more classes

function tribe_custom_theme_text( $translations, $text, $domain ) {

$custom_text = array(
‘Previous %s’ => ‘Older %s’,
‘Next %s’ => ‘More %s’,
);

if ( array_key_exists( $text, $custom_text ) ) {
$text = $custom_text[ $text ];
}

return $text;
}

add_filter( ‘gettext’, ‘tribe_custom_theme_text’, 20, 3 );

[George]

I’m sorry to hear this! I do not have a syntax error and cannot spot a specific error in your code as you’ve copied-and-pasted it; can you copy-and-paste the actual error itself?

Apologies for the added step here; not sure what’s happening with this error but once I see the full text of the error I might be able to spot the issue.

Thanks for your patience,
George

[Benjamin]

George,

It has something to do with these lines:

‘Previous %s’ => ‘Older %s’,
‘Next %s’ => ‘More %s’,

Because when I remove it, it works.

When I leave that line in the code, my browser throws this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’, expecting ‘)’ in /home3/ab58849/public_html/wp-content/themes/fropo/functions.php on line 29

[George]

Hm, I again do not have this error so I am wondering – can you copy and paste your entire functions.php file into a Gist at http://gist.github.com and then share a link here to that Gist?

I’ll take a look and see what I can learn.

Thank you,
George

[Benjamin]

Here’s a link to the code from my functions file:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/b58649144f442dde6c03

Thanks for taking a look!

[George]

Thanks Benjamin!

The problem is this:

You cannot have this in the file there:

=& gt;

You need to have this:

=>

I hope this clears things up with that snippet; it should work well!

Thanks for your patience here,
George

[Benjamin]

Thanks George, that did the trick!

[George]

Nice! Best of luck with your site 🙂

George

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