Hello Marc.

I am sorry to disappoint you, but unfortunately something like this is not possible with the plugin's built-in features.

Once the booking is closed, your customers would only be able to see basic event information, like this:

But they wouldn't be able to expand that. If they signed up, they would be able to log into their WP account, and see the event from there.

Best regards.

Hello again Marc.

First - about spaces and carriage returns. I believe you mean that the description should look the same in front-and in back end, correct?

This can be done with some HTML tags.

For instance this description:

Will show up like this in front end:

And "Google" and "e-mails" are clickable links:

You can even add the style CSS property to change the link color, so it doesn't look like normal text, like this:

And it comes up like this in front:

This also works with <strong>for bold text</strong> or <i>for italic text</i>.

Now, the only thing I can do for the description to appear for closed events is to provide some CSS which would override the logic, and only display the description without having links active anymore, like this:

However, this can only be done for each event individually, using this CSS:

<style>
#am-event-5 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-5 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
</style>

The first line displays the description automatically, and the second line hides the "Book now" button after the booking closes. You'd have to do this for all events on the page, unfortunately.

I have forwarded the request to our development team, and they are confident that this can be included so it becomes a built-in feature in the plugin. I do hope they'll have the time to implement it for the next release, since it is scheduled in a few days.

I can help you out with the selectors until then, so you can use this workaround until the feature is implemented. Here's how the first event on your page would look like:

And, to apply this to all events you currently have on your page, you'd need to add this before [ameliaevents] shortcode:

<style>
#am-event-1 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-1 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-2 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-2 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-8 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-8 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-5 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-5 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-4 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-4 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-6 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-6 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-7 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-7 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-9 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-9 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-10 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-10 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-11 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-11 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-12 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-12 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-13 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-13 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
#am-event-14 > div:nth-child(2) {
display: block !important;
}
#am-event-14 > div:nth-child(2) > div.am-event-book-cta.closed {
display: none !important;
}
</style>

Please note, though, that this will expand the event description for all events on the page, regardless of if they are closed or not.

Best regards.

You're welcome Marc.

Glad I could help.

If you have any further questions or issues, please feel free to open a new ticket, and we'll gladly help.