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April 7, 2014 at 1:06 am

Hi Stewart,

The only way to do this is to modify the actual widget.

You can do this by copying event-espresso/templates/widget.php over to wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates.

There you can edit the PHP to include the event date. I would do something liek this:

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<li><a href="<?php echo $registration_url; ?>"><?php echo stripslashes_deep($event->event_name) ?> - <span class="widget-event-date"><?php echo event_date_display($event->start_date) ?></span></a>

Change to

<li><a href="<?php echo $registration_url; ?>"><?php echo stripslashes_deep($event->event_name) ?> - <span class="widget-event-date"><?php echo date( 'd', strtotime( $event->start_date) ) . ' - ' . date('d M Y', strtotime( $event->end_date ) ) ?></span></a>

April 14, 2014 at 5:52 am

Hi Stuart,

My apologies, I just didn’t see EE4 in the question title, so yes the code will be very different.

You are sort of in the right place with the EEW_Upcoming_Events.widget.php file. It is certainly the one that outputs the dates.

To make the changes you need though, it would require modifying a function called espresso_list_of_event_dates, which is found in the core/helpers/EEH_Event_View.helper.php file.

This is a pluggable file so can be copied to a custom plugin or to your theme’s functions.php.

Modifying this requires more assistance than we can provide in support, it really needs a developer to look at it. I spent some time examining it and to get it to do what you want will require an hour or more, or someone more skilled than I!