[Ben]

That did it. Thanks so much for your help.

[Ben]

Thanks for your reply, Barry. You’re right, I spoke too soon. I’m still figuring out WordPress’s hook system, but I see now that you need to call remove_action() to remove the standard ECP function. I do look forward to having textarea as a standard field option, however, it’s not difficult to add as it stands.

[Ben]

Well, it won’t let me post the code or edit my previous comments, but if you look in event-meta-options.php you should see what I mean. If a moderator would like to delete my previous comment, feel free.

[Ben]

That is:
<option value="textarea" >

[Ben]

A couple of points. First, one of the main reasons I bought ECP was to add a textarea – so this is pretty disappointing. Second, the display of a textarea field is already defined in admin-views/event-meta.php, so all that is required to make this work is to add the option into the select field in admin-views/event-meta-options.php (around line 40), like so:
<option value="textarea" >

Yes, only one line of code is required to add this functionality. What is added if you do this, however, is a pretty lame little textarea. Still, it’s better than a text input if you need more space.

Finally, the hook mentioned by Barry above is pretty much useless because if you add it into your theme or plugin, it doesn’t override the standard hook function, so the original hook function and the custom one are both called separately. This creates problems I won’t go into here, but is unfortunately not a viable approach, as far as I can tell.

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