Too much content on main events list

[Becky]

After the latest update (I have version 4.0), much more content is showing on the events list–most or all of the body of each event post, which can get pretty long. This makes our events list less user-friendly and more cluttered: you have to scroll far to get past each description and find the next event. I changed my default view to “Month” instead of “List” as a short-term workaround. I couldn’t find a setting to reduce the content shown on the event list view. Any help or recommendations to hide the body of the post on the events list would be appreciated! Thanks.

[Brian]

Hey,

Thanks for reaching out to us and bringing this issue to our attention!

We’ve got this bug logged in our internal tracking system and will notify you here as we make progress on this issue. I apologize for any inconvenience that this issue has caused.

In the meantime, you can fix this issue by making some quick modifications to the core plugin. These changes will get overridden with the next update which will include an official fix to this issue.

Within the main Events Calendar plugin, navigate to the src > functions > template-tags > general.php file and open it within your preferred text editor.

Navigate to line #1320 within that file. It should look like:

$excerpt = wp_trim_excerpt( $excerpt );

You can change that line to be:

$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, ’55’ );

Where “55” is the number of words that you would like the excerpt to be there.

Let me know if you have any further questions or concerns here.

Thanks!

[Becky]

Thank you so much!

[Brian]

Great, glad it helps, I am going to go ahead and close this ticket, but if you need help on this or something else please post a new ticket.

Thanks!

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