Yet another date formatting question

[suncoastpca]

Hello,

I think I’ve been through just about every thread I can find, and I’m aware that the plugin takes its date formatting settings from WP’s Admin settings, but there are 2 places where I would like to change the format:

1. In calendar month view, in the Tribe Bar, there’s an “Events In” field that always displays Y-m. I’d love to be able to change this to m-Y.

2. In the admin UI when adding or editing an event, the Start Date & Time and End Date & Time fields are always Y-m-d.

Any suggestions?
–Paul

[Barry]

Hmm, well the first is probably easier to change than the second – however both I would say are, at this time, advanced customizations. We’re certainly open to feature requests for inclusion in future releases, though, if you’d like to post one 🙂

[suncoastpca]

Thanks, Barry.

Advanced customizations? That’s OK, I’m an advanced user. 🙂 I’ll post the feature request, but can you maybe point me in the right direction? I don’t need detailed instructions – I just had trouble tracking down where in the code these things are implemented. (I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually, but I’m just hoping to save some time).

[Barry]

Sure. Well with regards to the datepicker in the Tribe Bar first of all, the format is defined using the following piece of code which lives in resources/tribe-events-bar.js around lines 77-80, or thereabouts (of course normally the minified version of that code is used):

td.datepicker_opts = {
    format: 'yyyy-mm-dd',
    autoclose: true
};

We don’t recommend editing core code and so, ideally, you’d need to override this by some other means. In the admin UI you would need to look for something similar in events-admin.js. Besides the Javascript, you’d probably want to make some changes at PHP level – for example to format the date correctly when the page initially loads and for the front end you’ll probably be interested in setting up a filter using the tribe-events-bar-date-search-default-value hook.

Good luck!

[suncoastpca]

Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for. I hope to have some time to mess with this over the weekend. Thanks very much for the help.

[Barry]

Happy to help 🙂

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