So sad to lose such a great plugin to poor developer decisions…

  • I loved this plugin before the updates. Now it is useless. The developers say they stripped the CSS out of the plugin because it was bad form to have it there. Fair enough, so I lost all of my old formatting; that’s an inconvenience, but fixable. But now, as I try to add new formatting into my child theme css so that I can make the widget readable in our theme’s background colors, the browser debugging console is pointing out that my own css is being overwritten by the css built into the plugin! Seriously?! So there is no css in the plugin, but yet there is css in the plugin, and it happens to be the wrong css. If I can’t style the widgets to make the text appear, then nothing else matters about this plugin. This seems so obvious to me, but I guess it doesn’t seem obvious to the developers. They have mentioned that enhanced styling controls are on their “to do” list, but it should have been done before the update was ever released. The new updates are absolutely not ready for prime time. If you are lucky enough to have not updated the plugin, I would strongly advise that you don’t until they get many more bugs sorted out.

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  • Plugin Contributor Phil Derksen

    (@pderksen)

    It looks like my co-developer addressed some issues on the thread here:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/so-many-problems-with-styling-why

    But I hear your concerns. We’ve had to change quite a bit as the plugin had not been updated for quite some time when we started working on a rewrite. A lot of the rewrite included using current WordPress standards, such as the way CSS is done which you pointed out.

    Yes, our plugin still has basic styling included, but it is very basic and should take on your theme’s styles with the option to override.

    Currently we don’t have any (and it’s rare we need to add) CSS classes with the !important declaration, which means every class the plugin outputs can be overridden in your child theme’s CSS file. If this is not the case, please start a forum thread with your URL so we can see the behavior. See the plugin’s public CSS file /css/gce-style.css.

    As for enhanced styling beyond this, it simply was not something we have had time to get to yet. There are many features and bug fixes we’re still trying to iron out that have taken priority.

    All along until mid-November we’ve pointed out the major changes when upgrading from 0.7 to 2.x and the option to stick to the old version. We posted a sticky, sent an email and put out a blog post. No one was forced to upgrade until…

    Google deprecated version 2 of their API. See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/gce-210-now-updated-for-gcal-api-v3

    Now the old version of the plugin won’t work anyway, and we scrambled to get the current version of the plugin working with GCal API v3. It took a few days of downtime, but we got it working once again.

    Remember this is a free plugin and we’re currently limited on the time we can spend on it in relation to other work. We simply need to prioritize with the most popular and crucial items that pop up first here in the forums.

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