Hide recurring events toggled ON by default?

[Gray]

Is it possible to make the default for the event page to “only show first upcoming instance of reoccurring events”, as if that box is just always checked?

So it’s toggled ON by default instead of OFF?

[Geoff B.]

Good afternoon Todd and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.
I would love to help you with this topic.

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but there are a couple of options for that in Events -> Settings -> General (look for Recurring event instances and Front-end recurring event instances toggle)

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[Gray]

I still want people to have the option of UNCHECKING the checkbox, but for it to be set to CHECKED on first page load.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Todd,

Thank you for clarifying. Totally my bad.

I am pretty sure it is possible to do so by adding a snippet to the functions.php file of your WordPress theme.

I will check with some of our Dev people tomorrow and see if they can provide me with the necessary code.

Best regards,

Geoff B.

[Geoff B.]

Hi again Todd,

Could you try the following snippet: https://git.io/vwORL ?

Let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

[Gray]

That totally works. I’ve got one more question; I’ve found no way to change the wording of “Next Events” to “More Events”. Is there a way to modify what that says? I can’t find that wording anywhere in a template in the views folder

[Geoff B.]

Hey Todd,

I’m glad to see that this worked for you!

As for your second request, I would recommend trying the following: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/change-the-wording-of-any-bit-of-text-or-string/

Let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

[Gray]

It would seem then that the little snippet of

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

in my functions.php file would take care of that, but no luck.

I do believe that “Next Events” is indeed a string generated somewhere, but alas…

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Todd,

A quick look through the po/mo files revealed that actually the correct string to replace would be “Next %s” (the word Events is a variable here).

Let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

[Gray]

that didn’t work either, but it’s ok. I’m willing to let it go at this point.

[Geoff B.]

Hey Todd,

I’m sorry to hear that did not work for you. Normally, it really does 🙁
In any case, I totally respect your decision.

That being said, you are welcome back on our support forums any time 🙂

For now, I am going to close this thread.

Have a great week!

Geoff B.

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