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WGW April 2024

Just been doing a double check to see what’s going on in Whitby this April Quite a few things so far and definitely more to be announced. I expect a bit more detail from the WGW team about stuff going on at Abbey Wharf, a gig at the Brewery again and probably something going on at the varies pubs like the Little Angel. If you spot new stuff announced, submit it or nudge me 🙂 https://thegothcalendar.co.uk/series/wgw-april-2024/

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WGW October 2022

A quick round up of what’s going on in at the Whitby Goth Festival this October As usual there is a the Tomorrows Ghosts Gothic and Alternative Market on at the Pavilion and the WGW Bizarre Bazaar from Friday till Sunday afternoon for all your gothic shopping needs. New shopping venue The Royal Emporium is open on Saturday and Sunday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Photo by Abhishek Babaria on Unsplash

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Tweaking the Events Calendar so it displays HTML

Have you noticed that html is missing from Events Calendar excerpts? The excerpts used in The Events Calendar summaries are a bit lack lustre to me. If like me you want a bit more content and html in your events calendar posts here is a tweak. The events calendar aggressively trims out html from the page excerpt and reduces it to 55 characters by default. This happens in the following file: in this section: This line is what does most of the damage: $excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more ); The wp_trim_words() function strips out any html before it does

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Whitby Gothic Weekend April 2022

Whitby Gothic Weekend is coming up! Here is a quick round up of all the events I’ve found that are taking place this April. Thursday A Rock and Metal Fundraiser at Abbey Wharf from 19:00 to 1am Friday The Souls of Misfortune at The Little Angel 19:00 to 21:00 Heavier than a Heavy Thing at Abbey Wharf, 19:00 to 01:00 Freaky Friday at The Met, 19:30 to 23:00 The Dark Circus: Zeitgeist Zero + Rome Burns + Westernra + The Golden Age Of Nothing at the Met Ballroom, 19:30 to 1am Saturday Goth at the Brewery + Dawn of Elysium

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2022 is filling up!

“bauhaus, aug 2006” by pfig is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 After a flurry of cancellations in December due to the increasing numbers of Omicron infections, 2022 is starting to look like like it’s going to be a full on year of live events! So far I’ve spotted 132 different events in 2022, that’s one in every 2.7 days! Tours After ploughing through adding a number of tour events, I decided to add a Tours category to try and add a bit more structure to the site. So far we’ve got: The Chameleons: 1st – 19th Feb: Nottingham, Bristol, Brighton, Cambridge, London, Southsea, Liverpool,

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