Want to have the calendar appear on my "Event" page

OK – so I just figured this out!

Go to the Events Calendar Settings.
Under General Settings locate the ‘Events URL Slug’
Amend this to the name of your page in your navigation bar
This page will then redirect to the Events Calendar

Happy Days

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Ok this is kind of strange. I went to the Event Settings and this is what it says:

“Events URL slug

You cannot edit the slug for your events page as you do not have pretty permalinks enabled. The current URL for your events page is https://localhost/wordpress?post_type=tribe_events. In order to edit the slug here, enable pretty permalinks”.

So I went to my Dashboard Settings and saw that pretty permalinks had the “Default” box checked. Assumed that that is what the problem was, so I scrolled down and selected the “Postname” radio button and saved the change.

When I went back to the Event Settings, the new message says the following:

“Events URL slug

The slug used for building the events URL. Your current events URL is: https://localhost/wordpress/events/” and the work “EVENT” appears in the box. Perfect. That looks great.

But when I refresh the page and click on any of the Navigation Links (Events Link included) at the top of my page, I get the following message.

“Not Found

The requested URL /wordpress/contact/ was not found on this server.” It gives me this error message for every link in my header.

If I go back and change the permalinks to “Default” all my links work again, but the Events no longer gives me a slug to point to the Events Navigation button. Back to my initial problem.

Hope this makes sense. Suggestions?

Saranee

By the way, I downloaded WAMP and am working on my desktop with localhost/wordpress. Could that have anything to do with my problem?

Thanks
saranee

Hi saranee,

There’s no particular reason it wouldn’t work locally – so long as the .htaccess file is being generated and mod_rewrite is enabled (just the same as a remote server).

It’s rather difficult to help without seeing the problem first hand, however, but please try A) deactivating all other plugins and B) using a default theme then C) visit Settings → Permalinks (just to “flush” the rewrite rules, you don’t have to actually change anything).

Does that resolve this?

What do you mean by “just to “flush” the rewrite rules” ??

Thanks

It means the list of rewrite rules stored in the options table will be cleared and rebuilt.