Modify Vehicle Submission Form

Hey Iret,

I think the best way to do this is to ‘translate’ these two strings with a filter. I’ve wrote a small snippet for you which should help you: https://gist.github.com/barrykooij/9db8cd6e93dd8bae2298271d0188d7e8
Place that code at the bottom of your theme’s functions.php and reload the page.

You should be able to hide the _Optional_ labels by placing this CSS snippet in your theme’s style.css:
.wpcm-car-form fieldset label small { display: none; }

Good luck and thanks for using WP Car Manager.

I sincerely appreciate your help and the effort you put forth. The second part of your advice (in regard to the word “optional”) worked immediately and solved my problem.
Unfortunately, the first (in regard to changing First Registration Date to Year, only) failed. I crashed my Site 4 times, no matter what I did my Website consistently returns: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in functions.php”. I used the code you provided, EXACTLY. I didn’t forget to close the code. I tried to mimic my theme’s functions.php formatting (/** and */). I tried already everything I can think of to make the snippet work but it doesn’t. I’m using the Suffusion theme. Any advice? (The reason the change I requested is so badly needed is that in the United States, we don’t know the date of the first registration of our cars; we know the car model’s year.)
I love your plugin and REALLY want to make it work for me.

Hey Iret,

I seemed to have made an error in the snippet, so sorry about that. Could you check if this works? https://gist.github.com/barrykooij/9db8cd6e93dd8bae2298271d0188d7e8

Cheers,
Barry

Hello Barry,
Thank you very much for your continuing support! I tried the new snippet. It didn’t result in a syntax error. But it didn’t produce the desired outcome, either. It replaced First Registration Date with My First Registration Date Replacement. I tinkered and arrived at the much wanted YEAR. Unfortunately, the user is still required to provide year, month and day in the input field… Isn’t there a way to replace the input field with a BLANK one like the Listing Title, for instance?
The way it was and the way it still is, the user is REQUIRED to lie or walk away….
I sincerely apologize for being so persistent. I really think that your plugin is terrific and I’m not ready to give up on it.

Hey Iret,

I don’t think that would work at the moment. You might be able to change the actual input field to a simple text field but in the code we’re parsing this as DateTime object which means it has to be in a valid date-format. If only a year would be stored in the backend this might cause the application to crash when loading the vehicle.

I’ve created a new issue on our GitHub repository so we can look into this in a future version: https://github.com/barrykooij/wp-car-manager/issues/110
All future communication regarding this specific topic will be done in that issue.

Kind Regards,
Barry Kooij

Hey Barry,
Thank you for your reply. I understand, of course. I regret however that even though I’ve been clear from the beginning that in the US we list the year of a car’s model as opposed to the car’s first registration date, you didn’t let me know one week ago that modifying the input field of your plugin’s submission form isn’t possible. I’m sorry I wasted so much work….
Cheers,
iret1