change link title word in single-event.php

Are you trying to change the Left Arrow and Right Arrows?

Those are actually being added using a CSS pseudo element ::before

Thank you for your reply！

I don’t want to change the arrow,
need to change the string.

It is a fixed character from the article title, for example, <Next>.

Hello homme4, thank you for your reply.

I think you may have discovered an issue in the plugin.

While that’s addressed, I came up with this PHP snippet which worked for me:

<?php
/* Previous */
add_filter( 'tribe_the_prev_event_link', function( $link ) {
	// Set the new string
	$new_string = 'Previous';

	// Get rid of HTML entity
	$link = str_replace( '<span>&laquo;</span> ', '', $link );
	
	// Parse the element
	$a = new SimpleXMLElement( $link );

	// Build the new link
	$link = '<a href="' . $a["href"] . '">' . $new_string . '</a>';
	
	return $link;
} );

/* Next */
add_filter( 'tribe_the_next_event_link', function( $link ) {
	// Set the new string
	$new_string = 'Next';

	// Get rid of HTML entity
	$link = str_replace( ' <span>&raquo;</span>', '', $link );
	
	// Parse the element
	$a = new SimpleXMLElement( $link );

	// Build the new link
	$link = '<a href="' . $a["href"] . '">' . $new_string . '</a>';
	
	return $link;
} );

Please see here for our guide on adding custom code snippets: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/k/best-practices-for-implementing-custom-code-snippets/

To clarify, you shouldn’t need to do this. What you were trying to do should have worked.

This snippet (well, two snippets: one for “Previous” and one for “Next”) is only meant as a temporary workaround while this is addressed in the plugin itself.

Once it’s addressed, you should be able to use functions like tribe_the_prev_event_link as you were trying to.

Hope this helps. Please let us know how it goes.

Best regards,
Leland

Your snippet code worked fine and was able to replace the string.
Thanks for replying !!