Need a clearer recurrence description

[John]

Hi,

I’d like to show a clearer description of the recurrence rules for events on their single-event view. For instance, I’d like to say:
“Every Wednesday”
instead of
“An event every week on the same day that lasts 0 day(s) and 0 hour(s) with no end date”

I’m a new customer of The Events Calendar Pro, but I see that something like this may have been supported in the past:

Recurring event text description — tribe_get_recurrence_text

How do I get this with a recent install of The Events Calendar & The Events Calendar Pro?

Thanks!

[Brook]

Howdy John,

That’s an understandable request. We did used to support custom recurrence text. I believe we took it out because people were not really using it. But now that we support arbitrary recurrences, our autogenerated tooltip text has become exceptionally lengthy. It’s probable people would use it more now. If this is a feature you would like to see us add back in the future, please suggest it: UserVoice (feature suggestion page for The Events Calendar) . We value your feedback, and other people can vote on it too to share their support.

You could basically add this feature yourself with a PHP modification. It will require familiarity with WP Filters and PHP. You can filter the recurrence text with ‘tribe_get_recurrence_text’. From there you could return whatever you want. If you want to be able to specify the text on a per-event basis, you might add a WP Custom Meta field. Call it something like “recurrence text”, and then returns its value when set to the filter ‘tribe_get_recurrence_text’.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[John]

That make sense. I’ll probably end up using the custom fields and filters as you said.

Thanks!

[terrizsolo]

Waaaait – in, the support thread referenced above:

• Nico indicated it was intentional but would be put back in a future release, and
• Geoff announced that the issue was indeed resolved in 3.12.3

Has this stance changed?

Has the issue actually been resolved? Because I’m not seeing the recurrence text box in my installation, and I have EC Pro 3.12.4.

Please advise.

[terrizsolo]

To clarify, I’m not seeing it in the ADMIN area. I haven’t tried to display it on the front end yet (I took it out, pending resolution of this issue.)

[Brook]

Thank you for bringing their comments at the bottom of that thread to my attention Terrizsolo. Those comments are the result of an internal miscommunication. 🙁

I did some investigating in our issue tracker and code history. Turns out one of our developers found an easy way to reinstate this feature without breaking our new recurrence capabilities, and so jumped ahead and added it to our upcoming 4.0 release. Good news there! There is no need to request the feature at this point, it will be launched in 4.0.

Now you are probably wondering why Geoff said it was already released. That was the miscommunication. This feature was accidentally mismarked in our issue tracker as being ready for the 3.12.3 release. And so when the release went out the door, Geoff went around saying it was ready because it was mismarked.

 

I just added this thread to our issue tracker. This means you will get notified when the feature is released. Hopefully this time it will be a correct notification, aye?

Sorry for the confusion. But I am excited to see this is getting addressed very soon. Let me know if you have any questions.

• Brook

[terrizsolo]

No worries, I know you are making a lot of changes and chasing a lot of little bugs! Miscommunication happens.

Delighted that I will get notified; not knowing when the feature would be reinstated was what brought me searching tonight. Now I don’t have to check back 😉

Thanks!

[Brook]

Thanks for your understanding. 🙂 Even better news, we are doing another minor release, 3.12.5, and the dev just said he ported the feature from 4.0 to this minor release. So, if everything goes according to plan the upcoming 3.12.5 will include recurrence labels as well!

Cheers!
– Brook

[terrizsolo]

Fabulous!

[Brook]

The new version is out. Let us know if you have any difficulties or anything with this. Thanks again for the feedback. Cheers!

• Brook

[John]

You are all fantastic. This is perfect. Thank you!

[Brook]

Awesome. You are welcome John, I am glad we were able to jump on it quickly it’s working for you. Going to archive this thread. Happy calendaring!

• Brook

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