I have the same problem. It also appears in the pop-up description on the calendar view. If you go to the event and enter an excerpt then the excerpt data appears and not the whole description. It seems the character limit was changed. Is there any way to put that back. The alternative is editing every event on the calendar and inserting an excerpt! Ouch.
Thanks
Howdy guys,
Thanks for reaching out to us and bringing this issue to our attention!
We’ve got this bug logged in our internal tracking system and will notify you here as we make progress on this issue. I apologize for any inconvenience that this issue has caused.
In the meantime, you can fix this issue by making some quick modifications to the core plugin. These changes will get overridden with the next update which will include an official fix to this issue.
Within the main Events Calendar plugin, navigate to the src > functions > template-tags > general.php file and open it within your preferred text editor.
Navigate to line #1320 within that file. It should look like:
$excerpt = wp_trim_excerpt( $excerpt );
You can change that line to be:
$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, ’55’ );
Where “55” is the number of words that you would like the excerpt to be there.
Let me know if you have any further questions or concerns here.
Thanks!
– Brook
Followed your directions:
Opened the-events-calendar/src/functions/template-tags/general.php
and cut/paste your code
$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, ’55’ );
on line 1320
but now I only get
“…” as the verbiage
http://fscbmwcca.com/test/events/
I don’t know if it makes a difference but it looks like the problem I’m having is that my excerpt is blank so it’s copying the complete event body over.
Thank you very much, Brook, for your answer
It shows as before.
Plugin Contributor
Brian
(@brianjessee)
Great glad it helps, look for a fix in 4.0.1, which will be out shortly.
