Brian Hogg

@lalas Strange, I did not – email is brian at brianhogg dot com

Hi Vincent!

I’m assuming you’re using Simple Calendar (Google Calendar Events)? How many calendars do you have set up? The free version does grab events from all calendars, so if you have the same calendar/feed set up twice, it would appear more than once.

@lalas

Thanks for this!

Definitely seems odd that you’re seeing that if there are no other plugins. I’m still not able to replicate this locally, could you email me administrator access to this WordPress test site and/or a link to a place where I can download the database/files so I can try to replicate it myself locally? My email address is found at the bottom of brianhogg.com

Looking at the code, part of the issue might be the way events are being fetched currently, using get_posts vs. the Tribe-specific functions. I can test that once I can replicate your issue.

Actually looking at the screenshot this looks like it is from The Events Calendar plugin not this shortcode plugin. Check there ??

Try looking under the Translate This Plugin link:

https://translate.www.ads-software.com/projects/wp-plugins/the-events-calendar-shortcode

This is the best place to add translations or changes. Once they are 100% and approved by the translation team they could be included in the plugin.

@lalas

Great that you wete able to set up a test site! It does look like it’s still drawing from the main site though. For example the link to the an event is:

https://kurse.quirmbach.com/event/event-three/

Which is not under /test. It might still be affected by other plugins running on the multisite network.

If you’re able to test on a copy of your live site and plugins disabled and default theme that would be best, and not on multisite, but I’ll see if I can find a problem.

Does the same thing happen if you don’t use the limit parameter of the shortcode?

@tarabas78 can you also set up a test site (if you don’t have one), disable all plugins except for The Events Calendar and the events shortcode plugin, switch to a default theme (like Twenty Sixteen) and see if the issue still occurs?

I was thinking the issue may have been with the language difference (ie. German), but have tested with events in a category far in the future and all works well. I’m new to helping with this plugin and wrote none of the original code, but can put a fix or warning in if there’s a common conflict.

@dkunt completely understand, should definitely not do this on a live site, and these issues are can be difficult to diagnose since any other plugin or theme could cause an issue like this.

Managed WordPress hosting providers like WPEngine and SiteGround allow you to create a copy of your site for testing issues like these with one click, or you could create a local copy of your site using XAMPP, WAMP, MAMP or even VVV with instructions like these:

https://managewp.com/how-to-create-a-local-copy-of-a-live-wordpress-site

Let me know if you’re able to deactivate all other plugins and switch to a default theme to see if it’s working. From there you can re-activate plugins one-by-one and test after each activation to verify when the issue occurs.

Can you try disabling all plugins and temporarily reverting to a default theme (like Twenty Sixteen) and see if the shortcode still does the same thing? I’m wondering if something is changing the query such that it does not work.

I did see that there were no events in December/January, but I’ve tested with shortcode [ecs-list-events cat='test-category'] with the next event in March and it shows the event successfully.

Can you confirm if the issue still happens with all other plugins disabled? Also, you are running WordPress 4.4 and the latest 4.0.4 version of The Events Calendar plugin correct?

@dknut what’s your website? I’m not sure I’ll be able to replicate the problem on my end but can at least try and see what events you’re trying to show with that shortcode.

I’m not seeing any events for the slug 2016-elections:

https://www.collincountygop.org/calendar/category/2016-elections/2016-01/?tribe_events_cat=2016-elections&tribe-bar-date=2016-01

To verify the slug is correct, try find an event in that category under the main Calendar page, click the category link under “Event Category:”, and grab the slug after /category/. ie. if you go to:

https://www.collincountygop.org/event/republican-women-north-collin-county-january-meeting/

and click Clubs under Event Category, you’ll find the slug ‘clubs’

@lisalisa1987 why are you not able to update to the latest version? It may be an issue with that version of events calendar so you’d need to update to 4.0.4 and see if that sorts it out.

@dknut what is your site and what version of WordPress and The Events Calendar are you running? Also, what is the shortcode you are using?

The shortcode has been tested on 4.4 with the latest version of The Events Calendar (4.0.4)

No problem! Yes both of those versions work ??

Happy new year to you too!

Yes, the default is sorting by end date. Try adding key="startdate" to your shortcode, ie.

[ecs-list-events key="startdate"]