How to turn off events time

[Stephen]

I want to post an event that is over a few days, and the time changes throughout the days and during the day. I just want the event to show without any times. Is this possible?

[Jonah]

Hi Stephen,

Yes, this is possible. You’ll need to reconfigure the /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/single.php file by making a copy and placing in an ‘events’ folder in your active theme. Then you can make changes to the template… Do you want to turn off event times for all events that span multiple days or just specific events?

Cheers,
Jonah

[Stephen]

Specific events that have events for many days and different times during those days.

[Jonah]

Specific events will be more tricky because you’ll need a way to flag those specific events. Here’s what I would do:

1. Install http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/ and then create a True/False field displayed in the events add/edit screen to be able to flag those events.
2. Then, modify single.php as I instructed with the following change to lines 21-29:
https://gist.github.com/4435986 – note, you’ll need to create the true/false field with Advanced Custom Fields and set it to display for the Events (tribe_events) post type and then update the code to reflect your custom field unless you use the same label/field name as I used (custom_event_date_display).

So basically what this is doing is just checking for whether or not that flag has been set for specific events and displaying a different start/end date without time in the single.php template. I know it’s a bit much but hopefully you can figure it out and if you have any questions, let me know.

Cheers,
Jonah

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