[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Data not saving in fields

Add me to 2cats and all the others experiencing this problem. I can create an entry with a venue and it saves and displays properly. But the edit screen for the entry then clears all the venue information, so if a user edits the event and saves it, all the venue information disappears from the post (unless of course the user has re-entered it).

I haven’t noticed any of the other problems in editing an event – anything that I specify seems to be reflected correctly when the item is updated.

Looking forward to a fix soon! This is an extremely valuable plug-in.

Keep up the good work. Looking forward to the fix soon!

I echo 2cats and mgrels – I can create the event, add the venue & organizer info, publish, and it goes live to the site. But then if I need to go back to the Post Editor to edit the event, all of those fields are blank.

Would uninstalling and then re-installing a previous version of the plug-in work? I still have a zipped copy of 1.6.4.

@josh – I wouldn’t recommend downgrading past version 2.0 because the way events are handled in the database changed so much. Version 2.0.2 is still working (though you can’t update the venue info after you first input it). You can download that version here:
https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/the-events-calendar.2.0.2.zip

– Joe

@joe – Thanks, I just found out myself! Had to reset my permalinks among other things.

I decided to try reverting to 2.0 and that seems to have done the trick – no more disappearing Venue and Organizing info. If that is the feature that is really throwing people for a loop, and there aren’t other bugs related to 2.0, I suggest backing up, then deleting the current version and installing 2.0. Looking at the change log, I don’t see too many bugs and feature updates that will make using 2.0 until 2.0.3 or 2.1 is released a problem.

Of course, your mileage may vary!

https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/the-events-calendar.2.0.zip

Any proper updates coming this seems to be getting progressively worse with each release?

I realized that my current project would really benefit from recurring events, so I popped for the individual license. The pro version doesn’t seem to have the same issue. =/

Hey Mojowill. We’re working on our 2.1 release now; we feel your pain on this and apologize if the plugin gets worse with each release. While we’re trying to patch everything we can from release to release, some things inevitably get broken and others not fixed for everyone – things we don’t realize until it’s out there being used by folks on a bunch of different setups. If you’re interested in testing out new code as it becomes available – but not necessarily officially released – you can always feel free to email me (rob at tri.be) and I can get you what we’ve currently got at that moment in time. This way if we do fix it along the way you aren’t waiting for an official release to get something that we’ve already fixed. We do want to make this right by you guys, though, and apologize for persistent problems like this.

Josh: awesome to hear the PRO route fixed your issue. We’re working hard to get this resolved for core/free users, too, so they don’t feel like upgrading to PRO is necessary for a working plugin.

Thanks Rob, the code you sent me solved my problem!

Any update on how far away this will be?

Just a heads up to all that the majority of feedback I’ve gotten from users emailing me about this seems to indicate the new code resolves it. The offer still stands for anyone interested in reaching out there.

To answer dpDesignz: the fix should be deployed with the rest of the 2.1 code sometime between now and the end of March. Hopefully sooner rather than later…though it all depends on how quickly we can get the remaining bugs out.

2.1 is working exactly how it’s suppose to. Thanks. Some cool new features

After a few emails with Rob it looks like the 2.1 release is going to fix this issue.

Rob – I tried to email you for the fix, but the email was returned undelivered. Is there any other way I can grab the fix code from you? Or perhaps a different email? Thanks!

Did you try rob[at]tri[dot]be? I just had an email from him.