Several functionality questions

[Alex]

Sorry for having to ask this but I’m not sure what category the following questions would be under in the support documentation. The main question would how would I go about the most effective way of displaying the event list like the example in the image provided below that was on the WordPress example page, where the text is displayed on the side of the image? As of now the default sets it to display on the bottom of the image. Any combination of floating them doesn’t seem to work or have any effect.

How would I edit the loop only pull the first two lines of the description when looking at the list of events. (Doing this without having to redo it in the code every time the plugin is updated)? This is more of a where and how question for this particular plugin, not a general coding question if that makes sense.

Some additional questions include:
Showing caption photos on individual event pages, is that possible?
Having start and end date optional? Is that possible.

Thanks!

• This topic was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by Alex. Reason: Grammar

[Cliff]

Hi Alex. Thanks for your questions.

I believe you’re looking for the information contained in our Themer’s Guide. Making such customizations this way will make sure they don’t get overwritten whenever you make plugin updates!

To answer your specific questions:

• I believe you’re referring to the Excerpt. You can’t limit to # of lines (because different page/screen widths will result in different # of lines), but you can shorten the limit of words or characters for the Excerpt by using the excerpt_length filter without needing to do a theme override.
• You would probably need to do a theme override to include additional output in the single event’s display, such as a photo with a caption (is this photo coming from a custom field?)
• You could either hide the start/end date via CSS or a theme override.

Please be very specific about what you’re wanting if you do end up having follow-up questions.

Thanks!

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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