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July 16, 2013 at 5:45 am

Hi Gary,

No sorry, we dont have that type of field available.

You are right that by default recurring events will list every single event because it generates an event for each date point.

The recurring events add on, does come with a modified template that allows the recurring events to be shown as a single event until clicked, and then it will list out the dates, which the user can click to select, making it more compact.

The template isnt perfect and we are trying to update these to make them more flexible.

July 16, 2013 at 12:24 pm

Hi Gary,

The templates get copied into /wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates. As a first option I can suggest using the CSS dropdown templates. There is documentation available here that will outline how to display the events in a nice little dropdown:

http://staging.eventespresso.com/wiki/drop-down-list-recurring-events/

Alternatively, if you’d like to try out the recurring events event-list templates, more up to date versions can be downloaded here:

https://gist.github.com/3933889

https://gist.github.com/3165268

These get uploaded to /wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates on your server and will override the default event-list templates.

If you go with option #2 there’s an additional step that involves adding a line of css to your theme’s custom stylesheet:

.subpage_excerpt .date_picker{
	display: none;
}

July 16, 2013 at 3:38 pm

I checked the source on the dropdown-test and it looks like the php that is supposed to display the name and date of the event is getting wrapped with html comments so it’s not displaying:

screenshot

With the other question, you could try setting up a different page and place the [EVENT_CSS_DROPDOWN] and [EVENT_LIST] on the same page. If you place [EVENT_CSS_DROPDOWN] on the same page that has [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] you’ll end up seeing the dropdown on every page across the registration process since [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] handles the entire registration process.