Bernd

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.

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 or a multi-day-event.

And it seems that the load of feeds containing an all-day-event or a multi-day-event is also slow and 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 seems to even slowdown the pageload generally and this leads to the impression, that the plugin slows down the webpage.

I have changed all-day-events to timed events where possible now to avoid this problem. But this is not always possible and thus it is not a fix!

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.

Have you tried this in the theme css?

#666 !important;

Worked in my theme.

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 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.

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 solved this problem here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/changed-sidebar-after-update?replies=3

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/google-calendar-events/

I’ve checked it again and found the following:

If there is an all day event in my feed yesterday, my list will start yesterday showing this event.

If yesterday the same event is set e.g. from 4pm to 6pm it is not displayed in my list, it starts correctly with today’s events then.

Maybe this is related to the following problem, that I also had in the old plugin versions:

If I had a multiday event in my calendar, it would display the 1st day after the last set day as the enddate. I solved this with a -10 seconds offset in the old plugin.

But I cannot find a way to set such an offset in this version (2.0.2) of the plugin.

This is related to

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/version-201-one-day-off?replies=7#post-6025361

and

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/calnder-list-starts-yesterday-instead-of-today?replies=4

Also related to:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/past-events-showing-in-widget?replies=5

I had a similar problem.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/changed-sidebar-after-update?replies=3

Clearing the cache doesn’t help with my feeds.

This is probably the same issue

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/version-201-one-day-off?replies=7#post-6025361

Clearing the cache doesn’t help with my feeds.

This is probably the same issue:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/calnder-list-starts-yesterday-instead-of-today?replies=4

I have two different calendars on my site.
I seems that one calendar, which has mostly events with a fixed time, starts correctly from today.

The other calendar that contains only all-day-events starts yesterday instead of today.

Maybe that is what makes the difference?

the code in the event builder is

? [event-title]

[if-all-day] [/if-all-day]
[if-not-all-day][start-time] – [end-time] Uhr[/if-not-all-day]
[if-multi-day][start-date] – [end-date offset=”-10″][/if-multi-day]
[if-location] – Ort: [location][/if-location]
[if-description] – [description] [/if-description]

and in the second missbehaving calender:

[if-description][description][/if-description]

Here I want to show only the description the the list.