Add excerpt to Events Calendar Upcoming list

I should add that I don’t want to waste anyone’s time making them login and such, but just need a tip on why the code to show an excerpt here doesn’t seem to be working no matter what I try. If it’s really easier I can provide admin access but I’m assuming I’m fairly close to the right answer here.

For the record, I had even found older code that a moderator had suggested, which is below, but it does not work in the current version. I also tried $entry->the_excerpt, and $entry->the_content;

$excerpt = $entry->post_excerpt;
							$output .= "<span class='av-upcoming-event-excerpt'>{$excerpt}</span>";

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by pgsmarketing.

I’ve tried every iteration of that, and all it seems to do is display the excerpt or content for the page it’s on, not for the event you’re trying to pull, creating a loop within a loop, but showing the HTML code for it.

Is there another way to do this? I can’t quite imagine why there’s no default option to include the excerpt.

I don’t know what to tell you, but it’s not working on the home page. I took a screenshot that you can see here (https://ufile.io/8a6af) what it returns and the code is below. What am I missing? I added the code to the end of the section for output, but it’s pulling the home page’s own content with HTML/tags.

if (!empty($entries))
			{	global $post;
				
				$default_id = $post->ID;
				$output .= "<div class='av-upcoming-events ".$meta['el_class']."'>";
				foreach($entries as $entry)
				{	
					$class  = "av-upcoming-event-entry";
					$image  = get_the_post_thumbnail($entry->ID, 'square', array( 'class' => 'av-upcoming-event-image' ));
					$class .= !empty($image) ? " av-upcoming-event-with-image" : " av-upcoming-event-without-image";
					$title  = get_the_title($entry->ID);
					$link	= get_permalink($entry->ID);
					
					$post->ID = $entry->ID; //temp set of the post id so that tribe fetches the correct price symbol
					$price  = tribe_get_cost( $entry->ID, true );
					$venue  = tribe_get_venue( $entry->ID );
					$post->ID = $default_id;
					
					$output .= "<a href='{$link}' class='{$class}'>";
					
		if($image)  $output .= $image;
					$output .= "<span class='av-upcoming-event-data'>";
						$output .= "<h4 class='av-upcoming-event-title'>{$title}</h4>";
							$output .= "<span class='av-upcoming-event-meta'>";
							$output .= "<span class='av-upcoming-event-schedule'>".tribe_events_event_schedule_details($entry)."</span>";
							$output .= apply_filters('avf_upcoming_event_extra_data', "", $entry);
							$output .= "</span>";
						$output .= "</span>";
					$output .= "</a>";
					$excerpt = !empty(get_the_excerpt($entry->ID)) ? get_the_excerpt($entry->ID) :  get_the_content($entry->ID);
if($excerpt) $output .= "<span class='av-upcoming-event-excerpt'>{$excerpt}</span>";
				}