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Thanks Cliff! I didn’t think you guys would change anything, or at least not permanently, I just wanted the developers to be able to see everything.

Fingers crossed!

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I can’t downgrade because another plugin broke and they told me to upgrade and it would work. Which it did…..

Also Avada told me that downgrading would be a bad idea for other reasons. I have been in touch with them and they fixed part of the issues that got messed up around the calendar, but then directed me back to Events Pro.

Just FYI:When you go to Dashboard and Events, and click on one, you can see that my events look fine there.

I’m glad to hear that you have reached out to Avada. This has really toasted my site.

I’ve created another ticket with Avada. I would like to keep this ticket open until there is resolution.

Thanks,

Cindy

[Cindy]

Cliff – This was NEVER customized before and I was able to have paragraphs.

[Cindy]

Hi Cliff,

That worked. Thanks!

Now the last piece that is messed up is the paragraphs/spacing. If you look at my site you see it is still all mashed up. I had hoped that adding the extra lines would fix this but it did not. Remember….IT USED TO DO THIS. Just like all the other things I have spent the past week trying to fix. What do I need to do next?

Here is an example of how it WAS looking:
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October 22, 2016

Chicago, Illinois

Learn to Release All Anxiety and Fears by Unlocking the Doors to your Past!

Dr. Brian Weiss astonished the world of psychiatry with the theories of past-life regression therapy detailed in his best-selling book, Many Lives, Many Masters. Brian is the nation’s foremost expert in this field. This highly experiential intensive workshop explores the latest in hypnotic regression therapy. When we discuss what happens before we are born and after we die and our possible future lives we awaken from the constrictions of our past conditioning to release anxieties and fears.

In a series of large and small group past life regression exercises, healing visualizations and right brain training, this exciting experiential workshop takes you on an incredible psychospiritual journey as you explore the limitless boundaries of the mind and soul.

During this all-day event, you will have an opportunity to:
•Discover extraordinary details about your past
•Release old phobias and fears from prior lifetimes
•Practice revolutionary healing visualizations and meditations
•Harness the power of love and understanding to transform your life
•Understand about your soul mates and soul companions
•Discover new tools for developing your intuition and psychic abilities

Discover More: Brian L. Weiss, M.D. – Many Lives, Many Masters

______________________________

I’m saving all of the steps incase this gets messed up when Avada and/or Events Calendar updates because this has been really painful. If I had been live on my site and marketing it, it would have shut things down for this past week. I know I’m not technical minded and I know because of this I’m not always clear in how I asked things, but do you have suggestions for me going forward to make this less painful when I need help? Should I only post one question per support ticket? I.E.
1. How do I remove Read More
2. How do I have extra lines / text
3. How do I not have it mashed up

I know doing this would have created more tickets, but perhaps it would have made it more clear what I was trying to fix and get it solved faster? I’m open to any and all suggestions, because I know this is not easy for you when you have to deal with novices either and I appreciate your patience and efforts. 🙂

Here is what we used under Custom Functions to add extra words, incase you have others asking:
* Custom Functions
*/
get_template_part( ‘includes/custom_functions’ );
require_once( ‘includes/avada-functions.php’ );

// Changes the excerpt length for events to 100000 words
function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
if( tribe_is_event() && is_archive() ) {
return 100000;
}
}
add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999999 );

Thanks,

Cindy

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I uploaded a file tribe-events-excerpt-length.php, set the length to 9999, and put it the my theme folder in the same location as functions.php. My question is how do you let wordpress know to use this file to determine my excerpt length? What do I have to edit in order to make this work and what code do I need to write?

[Cindy]

Hey Cliff,

The excerpt is within the Events Calendar Pro. Before the Avada upgrade it allowed me to have unlimited text. Events Calendar had provided me with short code that made it work. Since the upgrade to Avada it is now being cut off.

Please go to my site: http://footstepsofwisdom.com/events/?action=tribe_list&tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=list

You will see that since I have Read more removed, one can only see a few lines. If you read up to my other messages to you, you will see the example of what it used to look like. I had unlimited lines of text in this section. Can you please provide me with a short code that will now work with the new version of Avada?

The Avada support person kindly sent me this link with info that is more on target to this issue:

https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/event-descriptionexcerpt-length/

The problem is, that it does not tell us where to go to change the code or how to make it unlimited. We spent an hour trying to find where to input this code.

Cindy

[Cindy]

Hey again –

Once I knew that the term I was searching for was ‘Excerpt’ I Googled that and came across this info:

https://gist.github.com/geoffgraham/665326d7770cf732b94c#file-tribe-events-excerpt-length-php

I tried to use this to see if it would do what I wanted but I could not find the file to update and I need the length to be unlimited.

Thanks,

Cindy

[Cindy]

Hey Cliff,

I got additional info/help from Avada. Ammar got rid of the ‘Read More’ now so that is good. Now I just need to increase the amount of info being shown on the excerpt. Can you please provide me with the steps to show the entire post within the excerpt?

Once I have that I should be good to go.

Thanks!

Cindy

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[Cindy]

Hi Brian,

Thanks so much for the reply. This sounds promising.

Happy Holidays!

Cindy

[Cindy]

Hi Cliff,

That took care of what I wanted. 🙂

Thanks so much!

Cindy

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