How to truncate description for "upcoming events at this venue"

[Steve]

I’d like to limit the amount of words used in the description for the upcoming events at this venue page. Also I’d like to add the featured image alongside the text as a thumbnail.
http://miklos.co.uk/venue/theatre-royal-2/
Any ideas?
Thanks

[Jonah]

Hi Steve,

In order to use a truncated description in the list you’ll need to modify /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/list.php and find lines 42-46 where the the_excerpt() and the_content() is called and use a different function for a truncated description. A favorite plugin of mine to help with this is: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/

For adding thumbnails alongside the text in the list, please see this tutorial that I put together: https://theeventscalendar.com/add-the-post-thumbnail-to-your-event-list/

I hope that helps,
Jonah

[uniondigital]

Hi.

I don’t meant to butt into a thread, but can you please provide an example of how the advanced excerpt plugin would be used in limiting excerpts on the events list view. I’ve tried the following in list.php but no luck:

and

and

Thanks in advance.

[Jonah]

Hi uniondigital,

Can you please post code examples to http://snippi.com/

Thanks,
Jonah

[uniondigital]

Hi Jonah.

Thanks very much for the quick response. Here is a link to the examples:

http://snippi.com/s/r5f14qa

Thanks!

[Jonah]

Hi uniondigital,

Try this which will first check to see if the the_advanced_excerpt() function exists and if it does, use that function for the excerpt. Otherwise, use the others. http://snippi.com/s/w2xwgl5

Does that work?

[uniondigital]

Hi Jonah.

That worked. Fantastic!

Thanks for your help on this. I really appreciate it.

Cheers!

[Jonah]

You’re welcome uniondigital, let us know if there’s anything else we can do!

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