Getting worse with every update!!!!

Dear Bernd,
I feel sorry for you.
What I did is to go back with release 2.02.
You can find it there :
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/google-calendar-events/developers/
and with a FTP (filezilla for instance) you can upload it directly in your side within folder ../content/plugins/
I hope it will help you.
I am not here to defend Phil and other guy who develop the plugin. I ma sure, there was a reason to test new features;
And sometimes, you can spend a lot of time to search why a ; instead of a , put a lot of mess…
But I do understand your point…

I hope you will be able to fix this issue on your side,
regards
Vincent

We released some other fixes too soon, which we’ll be working on this weekend.

You can revert to 2.0.2 here:
https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/google-calendar-events.2.0.2.zip

And you can revert to the pre-2.0 version as explained here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/if-you-need-to-revert-to-0731

Thanks for your patience while we make more fixes.

Just released patch 2.0.3.1.

If you decide to try it please let us know if it fixes the issue. If not, please give us details and we’ll try to fix it soon.

Thanks.

O.k there is still hope – this update 2.0.3.1 at least brougth my calendars back to the state they were in in 2.0.2,

I’ll check it in more detail later.

I want to appologize for sounding a bit rude maybe. In fact I was a little upset this morning (local German time) when my site “broke” again after the update to 2.0.3 – and I’m not a native speaker of English, so please forgive me if I do not express myself perfectly clear.

I can see that you (developers) are very ambitiously trying to improve the functions of this plugin and to fix all problems that occur.

So to give you some hints, let me again sum up the issues that I experienced.

1. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/changed-sidebar-after-update?replies=3
My sidebars changed after the first update. The reason was, that I didn’t change the feed id from “[google-calendar-events id=”x”] to [gcal id=”xxxx”]
As you explained elsewhere the old id made the page with the calender behave like a post and thus called the sidebar from my single.php (As most WP-themes do not have a sidebar on their single.php other people lost their sidebars when updating)
Changing the feed-id to [gcal id=”xxxx”] made the page behave like a page again and thus called the assigned sidebar. Problem fixed!!
I don’t know if you can fix this in the upgrade process, but this should at least be clear to people, who upgrade. So it should be explained in the upgrading instructions.

2. After update 2.0.2 ( it was o.k in Version 2.0.1 – so you must have changed something there!) and still in 2.0.3.1 calendars in list-view show expired (yesterday’s) events when yesterday contains an all-day-event. I explained this here.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/calnder-list-starts-yesterday-instead-of-today

The problem in the thread below may have the same reason, meaning it is not a question of cleaning the cache but it’s just, that expired events are shown in the calendar – making it look like the cache has not been cleared (i.e. in the old pluginversion, the feed was not refreshed).

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates

Quote from Post 10 in that thread:

“I don’t see any immediate auto update (ie Deletion of yesterday’s events and replacement of those events with future events which already exist on the calendar at Google.)”

3. As several people explained in different threads, the option to apply an offset to an event is missing in versions 2.0.++.

What it should do in my case is show tommorrow’s events let’s say 8 hours early.
Example: I have a calender-list showing only 1 event (the daily menu of our cafeteria) as the cafeteria closes at 2pm, today’s menu is no longer interesting after that, but people may want to see what is on the menu tomorrow, so I want to show tomorrow’s menu starting from e.g. 3pm today. That is what I could do with the offset in the old plugin.

Bringing this option back might even be a way to help us fix (2) intermediatly.

Concerning 2 from above:
The problem does not only apply to all-day-events but also to multi-day-events.

What I also do experience is that the feedload is often slow and sometimes even runs into a timeout when it is loaded after a change in the google-calender or after a cache-reset. The calenderlist shows something like “Timeout …” – or “… feed currently not available …”. Reloading the page in the browser normally then shows the calenderlist.

This does even slowdown the pageload generally and this leads to the impression, that the plugin slows down the webpage.

I have moved 1./ 2./ 3. from above to the following threads:

1. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/changed-sidebar-after-update?replies=4

2. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/calnder-list-starts-yesterday-instead-of-today?replies=8

3. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/offset-7?replies=4

So this thread can be deleted if that is possible.

@bernd,

Thanks for both the apology and the detailed bug reports. I understand your frustration when the upgrade did not go smoothly. We tested it ourselves, put out a beta version for people to test, but with so many folks using it obviously some issues got overlooked.

Trust me that although we may not be responding to them quickly we are reading them and one or both of us (Nick and I) are working on the plugin each day on the top issues.

As far as I know forum threads can’t be deleted except by the administrators of www.ads-software.com, which we’d have to email directly to do so. I will mark this thread resolved though and we’ll address the other issues that you posted when we can.