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Hi Barbara,

At the moment there is no meta key name for event start_date. To show event dates it has event_dates meta key which shows start date time & end date time. But sorry at the moment no separate key to show start_date.

We have already task in our todo to allow show start date, end date, start time & end time. It will be in one of future version.

Right now to achieve that you want do following things.

1) Add following PHP snippet via plugin or theme functions.php file

function gd_snippet_190814_output_event_dates( $output, $find_post, $args ) {
	global $post;

	$the_post = ! empty( $find_post->start_date ) ? $find_post : ( ! empty( $post ) && ! empty( $post->start_date ) && $post->ID == $find_post->ID ? $post : NULL );

	if ( ! empty( $the_post ) && ! empty( $the_post->start_date ) && strpos( $args['badge'], '%%event_' ) !== false ) {
		$date_format = geodir_event_date_format();
		$time_format = geodir_event_time_format();

		$output = $args['badge'];
		$output = str_replace( '%%event_start_date%%', date_i18n( $date_format, strtotime( $the_post->start_date ) ), $output );
		$output = str_replace( '%%event_end_date%%', date_i18n( $date_format, strtotime( $the_post->end_date ) ), $output );
		$output = str_replace( '%%event_start_time%%', date_i18n( $time_format, strtotime( $the_post->start_time ) ), $output );
		$output = str_replace( '%%event_end_time%%', date_i18n( $time_format, strtotime( $the_post->end_time ) ), $output );
	}

	return $output;
}
add_filter( 'geodir_output_badge_field_key_event_dates', 'gd_snippet_190814_output_event_dates', 20, 3 );

2) Use following shortcodes.

- For start date: [gd_post_badge key="event_dates" condition="is_not_empty" badge="%%event_start_date%%" bg_color="#ffffff" txt_color="#1339f0" alignment="center"]
- For end date: [gd_post_badge key="event_dates" condition="is_not_empty" badge="%%event_end_date%%" bg_color="#ffffff" txt_color="#1339f0" alignment="center"]
- For start time: [gd_post_badge key="event_dates" condition="is_not_empty" badge="%%event_start_time%%" bg_color="#ffffff" txt_color="#1339f0" alignment="center"]
- For end time: [gd_post_badge key="event_dates" condition="is_not_empty" badge="%%event_end_time%%" bg_color="#ffffff" txt_color="#1339f0" alignment="center"]

Kiran