Title: Events Widget
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Events Widget

 *  [Devilish Concept](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abovenbelow/)
 * (@abovenbelow)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/events-widget-3/)
 * So im using this as the template for the widget whoch works fine
    `<strong> <
   font size="4">%event_title%</strong></font> <div><strong>When:</strong> %start{
   l jS F }%<div> <strong>where:</strong> %event_venue% in %event_venue_country%`
 * The only problem is for some reason the titles not a link
    Also how would i add
   excerpt to the title
 * also on a side not i bought the ical extension today and it doesnt work but as
   im on a local host im hoping thats why and it will work when ive moved it to 
   a live site
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/event-organiser/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/event-organiser/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Stephen Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenharris/)
 * (@stephenharris)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/events-widget-3/#post-4203126)
 * You can find full documentation for the event list shortcode here: [http://wp-event-organiser.com/documentation/shortcodes/event-list-shortcode/](http://wp-event-organiser.com/documentation/shortcodes/event-list-shortcode/)
 * But you need to use something like `<a href="%event_url%">%event_title%</a>` 
   and `%event_excerpt%` displays the excerpt.
 * Regarding the iCal extension, it should work fine on a local install. If you’re
   having problems get in touch via [wp-event-organiser.com/contact](http://wp-event-organiser.com/contact)
   and detail what exactly isn’t working. If you could provide the url to the feed
   then I can test it out on my local site too.
 *  Thread Starter [Devilish Concept](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abovenbelow/)
 * (@abovenbelow)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/events-widget-3/#post-4203239)
 * Title link is good but the excerpt is for the content i want to add a excerpt
   for titles as some are too long to fit into my layout correctly
 *  Thread Starter [Devilish Concept](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abovenbelow/)
 * (@abovenbelow)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/events-widget-3/#post-4203241)
 * ye the link is fone now but i ment excerpt for the post title not content
 *  Plugin Author [Stephen Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenharris/)
 * (@stephenharris)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/events-widget-3/#post-4203267)
 * Oh I see, that’s not possible with the event list tags. If you use a custom template,
   however you can, do something like:
 *     ```
       $title = get_the_title( $post->ID );
           echo $title = (strlen($title) > 13) ? substr($title,0,10).'...' : $title;
       ```
   
 * If using a custom template, you’ll need to remove the tags you’re using currently.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/events-widget-3/#post-4203267)
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