GoodLayers Event – Add an excerpt in the event post

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In the Confera theme, we have a few styles for the even/conference style like:

– List style: https://demo.goodlayers.com/u/confera/online/schedule-list-1/

– Grid style: https://demo.goodlayers.com/u/confera/online/schedule-card-style/

In those styles, we don’t support the excerpt, that’s why we’re creating this article to help you add the excerpt by yourself.

Step 1:

• Backup your website.
• Create a folder call: goodlayers-event in the child theme.
• Copy those files into the goodlayers-event folder: event-item.php, event-style.php and pb-elelement-event.php.

Step 2:

Call the file from child theme to override the original file from the goodlayers event plugin. Please add this function in the functions.php file of the child theme:

// Call the customize file in the child theme
require_once get_stylesheet_directory() . '/goodlayers-event/event-style.php';
require_once get_stylesheet_directory() . '/goodlayers-event/event-item.php';
require_once get_stylesheet_directory() . '/goodlayers-event/pb-element-event.php';

Override the original file after setup theme:

// Override the original file after setup theme
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'gdlr_core_event_add_pb_element_custom');
if(!function_exists('gdlr_core_event_add_pb_element_custom')){
	function gdlr_core_event_add_pb_element_custom(){
		if(class_exists('gdlr_core_page_builder_element')){
			gdlr_core_page_builder_element::add_element('event-g', 'gdlr_core_pb_element_event_g_custom');
		}
	}
}

Step 3:

Go to event-style.php:

Original Code:

	if( !class_exists('gdlr_core_event_g_style') ){
		class gdlr_core_event_g_style{

Change it to:

if( !class_exists('gdlr_core_event_g_style_custom') ){
		class gdlr_core_event_g_style_custom{

Search event style 1 and add the excerpt.

Original Code:

$ret .= '<div class="gdlr-core-content-wrap" >';
$ret .= $this->get_title($args);
$ret .= $this->get_info($infos);
$ret .= '</div>';

Change it to:

$ret .= '<div class="gdlr-core-content-wrap" >';
$ret .= $this->get_title($args);
$ret .= $this->get_info($infos);					
if( !empty($args['excerpt-number']) ){
    $ret .= $this->get_excerpt($args['excerpt-number']);
}
$ret .= '</div>';

Go to event-item.php

Original Code:

// Around line 6-7	
if( !class_exists('gdlr_core_event_g_item') ){
		class gdlr_core_event_g_item{

// Around line 363
$query = $this->query;
$event_style = new gdlr_core_event_g_style();

// Around line 397
$event_style = new gdlr_core_event_g_style();

// Around line 499
add_action('wp_ajax_gdlr_core_event_g_ajax', 'gdlr_core_event_g_ajax');
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_gdlr_core_event_g_ajax', 'gdlr_core_event_g_ajax');
if( !function_exists('gdlr_core_event_g_ajax') ){
    function gdlr_core_event_g_ajax(){

Change it to:

// Around line 6-7	
if( !class_exists('gdlr_core_event_g_item_custom') ){
		class gdlr_core_event_g_item_custom{

// Around line 363
$query = $this->query;
$event_style = new gdlr_core_event_g_style_custom();
$event_style->get_content($this->settings);

// Around line 397
$event_style = new gdlr_core_event_g_style_custom();
$event_style->get_content($this->settings);

// Around line 499
add_action('wp_ajax_gdlr_core_event_g_ajax', 'gdlr_core_event_g_custom_ajax',9);
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_gdlr_core_event_g_ajax', 'gdlr_core_event_g_custom_ajax',9);
if( !function_exists('gdlr_core_event_g_custom_ajax') ){
    function gdlr_core_event_g_custom_ajax(){

Go to pb-element-event.php

Original Code:

// Around line 6
add_action('plugins_loaded', 'gdlr_core_event_add_pb_element');
	if( !function_exists('gdlr_core_event_add_pb_element') ){
		function gdlr_core_event_add_pb_element(){

			if( class_exists('gdlr_core_page_builder_element') ){
				gdlr_core_page_builder_element::add_element('event-g', 'gdlr_core_pb_element_event_g'); 
			}
			
		}
	}
	
	if( !class_exists('gdlr_core_pb_element_event_g') ){
		class gdlr_core_pb_element_event_g{

// Around line 121
'condition' => array( 'event-style' => 'style-2' )

// Around line 339
'event-style' => 'style-1', 'event-info' => array('date', 'time', 'location'),

// Around line 449
$event_item = new gdlr_core_event_g_item($settings);

Change it to:

// Around line 6
if( !class_exists('gdlr_core_pb_element_event_g_custom') ){
		class gdlr_core_pb_element_event_g_custom{

// Around line 121
'condition' => array('event-style' => array('style-1', 'style-2', 'style-1-room', 'style-card', 'style-multi-date', 'style-grid'))

// Around line 339
'event-style' => 'style-1', 'event-info' => array('date', 'time', 'location', 'caption'),

// Around line 449
$event_item = new gdlr_core_event_g_item_custom($settings);

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