Event widget is not showing active event, instead showing current page.

Howdy Nancy,

We would love to help you with this. That is very interesting. Yours is the first case I have seen with this problem.

I’m actually not sure it’s related to the update. It looks to me like something else is overriding the widget’s WP Loop. This would likely have been happening before the update as well.

Does your content area on the problem page contain any shortcodes? What happens if you temporarily make the content blank and update the page, then hit save?

If that doesn’t work you’ll probably need to do a full conflict test to 0 in on the problem. This guide?walks you through how to test for a conflict,?and then?identify what is conflicting.

Does that all make sense?

Cheers!
– Brook

It’s happening on every page on the site, including the home page, and the blog page.
Here is a blank page https://iamadambauer.com/3128-2/
The other widgets in the sidebar are just text widgets, but just to be sure I pulled them out of the sidebar and the problem still occurs.

I’ve move all other plugins to a temp directory, and reloaded, and problem still occurs.

I’m hesitant to switch out the theme in the middle of the day, but it hasn’t changed since 3/2014. I can look at the theme files, what would I be looking for that could overwrite your loop?

I guess it is possible that it has been going on longer than the latest release, but the client just noticed it.

OK, i think I had a break through!

Just checked and we were overriding the list-widget.php to add venue, city & state … I’m guessing things changed with the latest release so that old widget no longer worked. When I rename the tribe-events folder in the theme, i get the right information.

Will this code still get me what I need if I modify the NEW widget?

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<pre><code><div class="venueinfo"><?php echo tribe_get_venue(); ?>
<?php if (tribe_get_venue()){echo ',';} ?> <?php echo tribe_get_city(); ?> <?php echo tribe_get_state(); ?></div>

edit: YES! i added this code to the new widget, and placed it in my tribe-events/widgets folder in my theme, and it works like a charm.

Leaving this solution here for posterity to help anyone else who has this problem.

By the way, it would be awesome if including the venue/city/state was a standard option on the widget ??

Oh that would make sense. We seldom update that template but I guess we did today. Thanks for sharing the details!

By the way, it would be awesome if including the venue/city/state was a standard option on the widget ??

I definitely could see that. The pro version has a much more sophisticated and frankly nicer looking widget that replaces the one you’re using. We sometimes forget about this little guy because all of us are used to having the Pro version activated. I will have to keep that in mind. Thank you so much for the feedback.

Cheers!
– Brook