How to always display the year for an event?

[Pieter]

So I’ve configured my site (I use Genesis) with the event calendar plugin (pro), and I’ve noticed that the year isn’t displayed when the event it taking place during the current year. So basically for an event happening in 2015, well 2015 is nowhere to be seen, so the user has to “assume” it is this year, and same goes for SEO with search engines…

I get it that this might be a choice made for esthetic reasons, but we would like to always have it displayed after the month and day.
=> This applies everywhere. On the /events/ page but also on the single event pages as well as in the sidebar event list widget.

Maybe I’ve missed a setting for that somewhere. Thanks ahead for your support 🙂

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for using Pro and Community Events. I can help out here.

It is true the current year is not displayed for events, but it does display in the meta information so Google is able to read it correctly.

There is an easy change if you would like to always show the year.

Go to here:

Events > Settings > Display Tab > “Date Format Settings” > “Date without year”

And in that field you can change it to this: F j, Y

To get both the date and year like future or past events in another year.

I tested it on my site, which is running Genesis and it worked for me.

Let me know if that works out for you.

Thanks

[Pieter]

Hi Brian,

Epic, that indeed made the trick.
Just tried it and the year is here, excellent.

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by Pieter.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by Pieter.

[Brian]

Great, glad it helps, I am going to go ahead and close this ticket, but if you need help on this or something else please post a new ticket.

Thanks!

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