Need ability to replicate core file to child theme

[scamrcalendar]

I want to make a change to general.php, so that I can add the year back to the date format for the single item event pages. Right now, the year will not display for the current year, only past or future years. However, after digging though the knowledge base, I found that only files that are in /src/views can be replicated in themes or child themes, not src/Tribe or any other directory in the plugin.

If there is another way to make this change, that’d be great! Otherwise, it would be nice to be able to replicate core files into a child theme, so edits aren’t lost when The Events Calendar is updated.

Thanks!

PS – Great plug in!

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for using our plugins. I can help out here.

If you would like to change it so that the year shows for events in the current year. Go to this setting:

Events > Settings > Display Tab > Date without year

Then change the setting to this: F j Y

That should show the year then for events in the current year.

As for editing core files in a theme, that is not possible nor would it ever be possible for core files to be moved to the theme besides the template files in the src/views directory. PHP does not work that way nor would it ever be considered good practice to do that as it creates huge performance, security, and support issues.

The recommended way to modify in WordPress is through actions and filters and through our themer’s guide:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/template-overview/

Another option is to take a function from the general.php tab add it to your theme’s functions.php, rename it and change the output to what you would like and then use it in the template added to your tribe-events directory.

Cheers

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