Removing the "Organiser" name link from event?

[James]

Hi,

I want to remove the link from the organiser’s name on the front end of the event listing.

As I am the only organiser of any event and the website already provides detail of who I am I want the organiser to be a name and not linked to another page.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

James

[Josh]

Hey James,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

You can modify the way the organizer details are displayed by following our Themer’s Guide to copy the views > modules > meta > organizer.php file from the core Events Calendar plugin into your theme and modifying the content their to meet your needs.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[James]

Thanks for the reply Josh,

I understand the principles of moving copies of files into my Theme folder to modify etc.

What I am having trouble with is finding which bit of code I need to modify to remove the link from the organiser’s name. I still want the name to show but not have it link to anything.

I don’t see any code in the views > modules > meta > organizer.php file relating to the Organizer’s name link. So I’m not sure what I need to modify in this file.

The only file where I found code that says anything about organizer link is > public > template-tags > organizer.php on lines 115 to 145 (see below) but I don’t know what to change. When I did try to modify this file, I got a white screen on the whole website.

/**
* Organizer Page Link
*
* Returns the event Organizer Name with a link to their single organizer page
*
* @param int $postId Can supply either event id or organizer id, if none specified, current post is used
* @param bool $full_link If true displays full html links around organizers name, if false returns just the link without displaying it
* @param bool $echo If true, echo the link, otherwise return
*
* @return string Organizer Name and Url
*/
function tribe_get_organizer_link( $postId = null, $full_link = true, $echo = true ) {
$postId = TribeEvents::postIdHelper( $postId );
if ( class_exists( ‘TribeEventsPro’ ) ) {
$url = esc_url( get_permalink( tribe_get_organizer_id( $postId ) ) );
if ( $full_link ) {
$name = tribe_get_organizer( $postId );
$link = ! empty( $url ) && ! empty( $name ) ? ‘‘ . $name . ‘‘ : false;
$link = apply_filters( ‘tribe_get_organizer_link’, $link, $postId, $echo, $url, $name );
} else {
$link = $url;
}
if ( $echo ) {
echo $link;
} else {
return $link;
}
}
}

Cheers

James

[James]

If the the link can’t be removed, I would be happy if I could change the link URL.

[James]

A quick update!

Although not a perfect solution, I have created a 301 redirect from the old organiser link URL to somewhere more useful on my site, the about me page, and that seems to work.

[Josh]

Hey James,

I’m glad you were able to find a temporary solution! Looking at this further I noticed the issue you mentioned about not being able to easily remove the link being added to the title.

I created a gist of the “organizer.php” with the updated Organizer name without the link applied to it. You can find that here https://gist.github.com/BeardedGinger/b62b0d022412c3e2b010.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[Josh]

Hey James,

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from you.

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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