[Plugin: Event Calendar 3] Date Format on Event List

Hi –

Currently, there isn’t an easy way to do this without either: [1] modify the widget plugin or [2] create your own customized theme template.

I think the first option will probably be easier — if you go into your event-calendar plugin folder and open the file widget.php and go to around line 108 you should see code that says:

echo $before_widget . $before_title;
echo ec3_default_string($options['title'],'Upcoming Events');
echo $after_title;
ec3_get_events($options['limit']);
echo $after_widget;

Change it to:

echo $before_widget . $before_title;
echo ec3_default_string($options['title'],'Upcoming Events');
echo $after_title;
ec3_get_events($options['limit'],'%DATE%: <a href="%LINK%">%TITLE%</a> (%TIME%)','','m/j');
echo $after_widget;

You can read more about customizing the ec3_get_events() function at: http://wpcal.firetree.net/template-functions/ec3_get_events/

We should add that to the widget plugin — is nice functionality.

Damon

You shouldn’t need to edit any code. Event Calendar just uses the blog-wide date format. You should just be able to change your date format on WordPress’ main settings page.

If that doesn’t work, then it’s a bug. Come over the the mailing list and help us fix it.

Has anyone got anywhere with this issue I am trying to change the format in the widget to dd/mm/yy with no look so far. Andy Help would be good even if you just point me in the right direction.

thanks in advance