Events Date in Magazine element (not creation Date)

Hi Yigit,
One last related request… how can we modify the date format? Currently it’s only displaying the month and day. Is there an edit to the magazine.php file that will have the posts display the year as well, i.e. September DD, YYYY?

Thank you!
Eric

Hi Yigit,
We were able to accomplish the two changes we needed but unfortunately came across feature creep with the magazine post element and the dates. We were able to update the magazine.php file in the child theme directory with the updated code snippet to show the start date of the Event Calendar plugin posts.

The only problem is that this changes the date shown for all post used within the magazine post element. Any post that is not of the Event Calendar post type shows today’s date. I guess it’s looking for the Event Calendar start date–which doesn’t exist for normal wordpress posts.

So, the goal is to continue to use the magazine post element to showcase posts for the Event Calendar and normal wordpress posts but for the former pull start dates of the event and for the latter pull the default publish dates.

Is there a way to update the magazine.php file to accomplish this? Maybe some kind of boolean script that checks the post type and displays different dates based on post category?

Thanks!
Eric

Thanks Victoria! We’ll give this a shot and let you know how it goes.

We’re almost there! It appears that using categories doesn’t work as Event Calendar plugin uses its own post categories. What would the snippet look like if we looked for a tag instead of category? We’re noticing that both WordPress posts and Event Calendar posts share the same tags–just not categories. :(

What would we put in place of “in_category” to look up the tag of the post to apply the date to? Thanks!

We ended up making the change specifically for the page where we needed the event calendar specific update. This way all other magazine elements used throughout the site would not be affected. Here’s the snippiet of code we placed inthe magazine.php file in the child theme:
if ( is_page( ‘enter post ID number here’ ) ) {
$output .= “<time class=’av-magazine-time updated’ {$markupTime}>”.tribe_get_start_date( $entry->ID,false, $format = ‘F j, Y’ ).”</time>”; /* DISPLAYS EVENT CALENDAR DATE */
} else {
$output .= “<time class=’av-magazine-time updated’ {$markupTime}>”.$time.”</time>”;
}

Hey I had a same issue. I am not using the child theme I am afraid that my changes would be lost. I am using posts for event management but it is coming up with post creation date instead of event date. Also where on posts I can mention the event date ? In context or where ?How can I achieve this ?

how to add child theme ? Adding this will affect the current changes ?

Hi Enfold Support,
We noticed that recent updates to Enfold have changed the way Events Calendar by Tribe isn’t showing the proper meta. Ideally we need event posts powered by Events Calendar to show start and end dates (Tribe event date meta) when using the magazine post element instead of post creation dates. The above hack to the functions.php file addressed this. Although the other meta data is showing up now with some issues i.e. the breadcrumbs (author and date separate “/”) now appear when they didn’t before and don’t have any spacing.

We also noticed that the sorting by Tribe Event Calendar event dates (not post publish dates) isn’t working any longer. We have updated the theme adding the method above to add additional sort function to the magazine post element but the event posts aren’t sorting by the Event Calendar event dates but rather the publish dates.

Link and login info is provided below.
Thanks!
Eric