Month view – HTML entities

Hello @rothster

Thanks for reaching out.

I suspect this is because the calendar views display excerpts of event details rather than the full content and for WordPress, excerpts do not execute shortcodes. Although dash isn’t a shortcode and thus shouldn’t be affected, I still think this is the case.

Just to test this theory and see if I’m correct, you can add this code into your functions.php and see if it takes care of the issue:

//Enable Shortcodes in WordPress Excerpts.
add_filter( ‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘my_shortcode_parser’ );
function my_shortcode_parser( $excerpt ) {
return do_shortcode($excerpt);
}

Unfortunately that did not work

It’s still display &#8211 instead of the dash

Hi again @rothster

Thanks for getting back to me. Looks like the source of this issue is deeper that I thought

Can you please run through the steps in this conflict testing guide to see if a plugin/theme conflict is the source of this: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/k/testing-for-conflicts/

Let me know what you find.

Best regards,

Marho

There’s been no movement on this ticket for more than a week, so I’m going to mark it as resolved.

If you still need assistance with this, please open a new ticket and we’ll be happy to help.

Cheers,
Eugene.