Limit Month View Tooltip text to 20-40 words: excerpt option?

[Tommy Chamings]

Hello!
I’ve just installed Events Calendar Pro and I’m in the final stages of configuring the plugin to suit my website. How do I limit the hover over box (Tooltip box) for an event on Month View? I’d like to limit to around 20-40 words but currently ALL text added for an event is displayed in the tooltip box.
Thanks!

• This topic was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by Tommy Chamings.

[Josh]

Hey Tommy,

Thanks for reaching out to us and bringing this issue to our attention!

We’ve got this bug logged in our internal tracking system and will notify you here as we make progress on this issue. I apologize for any inconvenience that this issue has caused.

In the meantime, you can fix this issue by making some quick modifications to the core plugin. These changes will get overridden with the next update which will include an official fix to this issue.

Within the main Events Calendar plugin, navigate to the src > functions > template-tags > general.php file and open it within your preferred text editor.

Navigate to line #1320 within that file. It should look like:

$excerpt = wp_trim_excerpt( $excerpt );

You can change that line to be:

$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, '55' );

Where “55” is the number of words that you would like the excerpt to be there.

Let me know if you have any further questions or concerns here.

Thanks!

[Tommy Chamings]

Perfect fix! Thanks Josh!

[Josh]

Hey Tommy,

Awesome! Happy to help.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread for now. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to open a new thread.

Thanks!

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