[Plugin: The Events Calendar] TEC 1.6.2 released

@justinendler

I’d like to report one more minor issue, if I may:

When a venue name has an apostrophe, the plugin sometimes drops it and everything after it — so “Joker’s Bar and Lounge” becomes “Joker”, for example.

Thanks again for addressing everything else!

@kgagne

Thanks again. This is now fixed for the next release. To get the fix now, in the-events-calendar.class.php, replace the definition of ‘addEventMeta()` with the one in trunk:

https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/the-events-calendar/trunk/the-events-calendar.class.php

Justin

Thanks, Justin!

Here’s one more: I use the All-in-One SEO Pack plugin to define my post’s title tag as “Blog post title | Blog name”. This works for all my blog posts and pages, but not for viewing individual events. Those end up using the format defined by my theme’s header.php file, which is “Blog name > Blog archive > Blog post title”. Any idea why AIOSEOP isn’t taking effect on my events?

I’m using a custom single.php but tried removing it and using the default one and still had this experience.

-Ken

hi

I’m running TEC on a local installation with MAMP (so I can’t link to the examples I’m working on).

Problem 1 (clearly a bug, I think?)

In the events sidebar widget, the View All Events link gives me “Not Found” when I’m using Day and Time permalinks. When I click through to the Event List page, the Previous Events link at the foot of the page is also broken. When I switch the permalink settings back to default, everything works. Given that fancy permalinks are strongly needed, if not for the present WP install then for live sites, how do I fix?

Problem 2 (Probably just me being an eejit)

I found to my cost that having

<?php require('include/header/top-menu.php'); ?>

in my customised events/single.php makes things break quite spectacularly. I’ve tried all the path variations that made any sense, with no success. For the present, I’m hard-coding the contents of the includes into the events/files.

Is it just not possible to call includes this way inside the events templates? Or if it is, what do I do?

okay, as I suspected, I am an eejit.

Please disregard Problem 2 above. I sorted it.

Problem 1 vexes me still.

I just upgraded and now i’m getting a 404 ??

No clue what is wrong. Has anyone had this happen to them?

I’m not sure why but before it would work as site/category/events

Now it only works as site/blog/archives/category/events and site/blog/archives/category/events/upcoming doesn’t work also results in a 404.

I really want to get this plugin working at site/category/events or even better site/events

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

@kgange

Briefly looking in AIOSEOP, that plugin rewrites the title on the wp_head action. Since our single.php calls the standard get_header(), it seems like it should work.

In your theme, do the calls to get_header() include a name argument? If so, our plugin may be calling the wrong header file, and it’s possible this file fails to call wp_head(). This is a total longshot.

In any case, make sure your header.php calls wp_head().

If that’s not it, it could be some weirdness with both plugins hooking to template_redirect().

Justin

@enthusemarc

Trying some date and time permalink tags, I cannot reproduce the bad links. Can you post your exact permalink tag structure?

Justin

@nickcr

Can you provide a link and your permalink structure?

Justin

Hey Justin, sure here is the old link that worked fine on version 1.5.6

https://www.profitdrivers.ca/beta/category/events

After installing the new version that link will no longer work but this link works:

https://www.profitdrivers.ca/beta/blog/archives/events

However this one doesn’t

https://www.profitdrivers.ca/beta/blog/archives/events/upcoming

Here is my permalinks structure:

/blog/archives/%category%/%postname%

I really just want the events back to the way it was in 1.5.6 because it allows me to show the calender at site/category/events which would be great for me since that is where I want it to show.

If there is anyway to get it to show at site/events then i’d be even happier ??

@justinendler

Thanks for the help trying to get AIOSEOP working with TEC. My theme is This Just In, and its header.php file includes the statement <?php wp_head(); ?>. I’m not sure what the issue might be.

If it helps, here is a link to an example event on my site:

https://www.challengeblog.org/2010/05/dockside-dinner/

@justin

I guiltily note that I mis-named the permalink schema in my sleep-deprived state. Sorry. I”m using the Day and Name format.

With default permalinks the View All Events link goes like this:

https://localhost:8888/?cat=8&eventDisplay=upcoming

Day and Name permalinks go:

https://localhost:8888/2010/06/15/sample-post/

and when these are active, the same View All Events link reads:

https://localhost:8888/category/events/upcoming

which returns 404.

Similarly, the previous links link at the bottom of list.php which under default permalinks is:

https://localhost:8888/?cat=8&eventDisplay=past

and now it’s:

https://localhost:8888/category/events/past

which also is 404.

There’s a couple more similarly broken links further in, iirc. Can’t quite track them down at the moment.

It looks like the widget obediently rewrites the links in accordance with the permalink schema, and is then failing to understand that schema, or something.

I’ve just checked a valid link from the home page to a category page:

https://localhost:8888/category/music/

so it seems the new link code is well formed as far as “events/”…

@nickcr

Unfortunately, site/events is not possible. You can get site/category/events by using any legal structure tags for the Custom Structure ( found here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks ) and leaving the Category Base blank. Certain URLs are breaking now because the custom structure field must only contain structure tags, so /blog/archive/ should not be used in that field. Since the plugin creates the category Events, the plugin’s portion of the url must follow whatever the category base is.

Justin

Justin,

Perhaps I am not following, but I often use the permalink structure “%postname%” which does in fact enable https://www.mysite.com/events to take you to the default event listing template.

-S

@kgagne

I’ve contacted AIOSEOP to see if I’m missing something. Here’s the thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/410534?replies=1#post-1552844

Justin