dunham.scott

Sounds like there are good points on both sides of this, so hopefully things will get worked out eventually. But for the mean-time, I’m not really a big fan of the two fixes suggested above since they involve a lot of overriding of templates and/or core event calendar functions. Luckily there’s a filter available in the tribe_get_cost function, so I elected to use that instead:

//Display full event cost string if meta field contains non-currency characters
add_filter('tribe_get_cost', 'my_full_text_cost_fix', 10, 2);
function my_full_text_cost_fix($cost, $post_id){
	if(tribe_is_list_view() || tribe_is_month() || tribe_is_week() || tribe_is_day() || is_single()){
		$strRealCostValue = tribe_get_event_meta( $post_id, '_EventCost', true );
		//Check if cost meta value is a currency string
		$blnIsCurrencyString = preg_match('/^[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]{2}){0,1}$/', $strRealCostValue);
		//If cost contains non-currency characters, return the full string instead of the formatted value
		if(!$blnIsCurrencyString){
			$cost = $strRealCostValue;
		}
	}
	return $cost;
}

Adding this code to functions.php will display the full cost string if it’s not formatted as currency (i.e. “10.50”).