RSS feed not showing event performance dates & times on mailchimp

[Damien]

Wow a great plugin with a really bad explanation of the rss feed. I have tried to sticky tape together anything I could find from the forums on this subject but am yet to find enough info to get it done.

Could the team at Modern Tribe please provide the following tutorial….How do we add the start / end dates & times to the rss feed? and how do we make the appearance of them them look good on the mailchimp side?

Why this isn’t set out in an easy to follow tutorial already I really don’t know, but why would you think anyone would want to send an event email to their waiting database that didn’t show the performance dates & times of the event?

From what I can work out it seems there are some work arounds so why not just include them in your core calendar?

Anyway I still like the product and I look forward to your answers on this.

[George]

Hey Damien,

Your sprinkling of kind words about the plugins is much appreciated. Glad that some of it has been useful!

However, your specific customization is one I don’t quite understand. You describe what you’re looking for as this:

How do we add the start / end dates & times to the rss feed? and how do we make the appearance of them them look good on the mailchimp side?

There is no “mailchimp side” of things in RSS feeds. Mailchimp is a way to send mass emails to a list of email addresses, not anything to do with RSS. So I’m a bit uncertain of how best to help you here.

If you can clarify precisely what you mean here, I’d love to try and help a bit more – just want to be sure I understand your request completely so that I can help!

In the meantime, if you just want to customize the output of Events feeds on your site, then you will have to make a custom theme template for events. You can learn to do this here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Feeds#Customizing_Feed_Templates

To add event start/end times and dates, you can just use various template tags for The Events Calendar to do so. To find these, head into your plugin code for The Events Calendar and find the file /src/template-tags/date.php. Here you’ll find handy functions you can drop into your custom feed template like tribe_get_start_time() and such.

Play around with those things and be sure to keep good backups of your site both before and after you start these customizations.

Cheers,
George

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