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P?r, an additional note about AIO Event Calendar (same site that jkcml mentions): Our calendars are built of imported iCal events. Since July, AIOCalendar moved all RSS feeds to their own server, and they control the update refresh cycle, which is now many times a day (sigh). We started seeing the problems with 1000s of events in SimpleHistory *after* your update earlier in August (2.8?) similar to user prowo24. Thanks for looking into this!

Hi Augustas,

Don’t know if this will help in your case, but we saw the same kind of behavior in our Bluehost WP Optimized Hosting, which uses nginx. To log actual IPs, we added the following to our wp-config.php

After we did that, our security plugin was more effective, and Simple History worked as advertised.

Caution, your mileage will truly vary.

/** INSERTED Sept 2015 per James at Bluehost – Forwards Visitors’ True IP address to WordPress on Optimized Hosting for WordPress */
if($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_REAL_IP’]){
$_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_REAL_IP’];
}

I turned on the second setting (added Convert Times to each iCal feed, in addition to the global Settings > “Show events in calendar timezone”, and had the same problem again with All Day Events.

Screen shot of error made with both settings selected:
Settings > Show events in calendar time zone =ON
and
iCal Feed Setting > Convert events to calendar time zone= ON
https://www.dropbox.com/s/od4dr605c7os7f5/events_show_allday_on_two_days.png?dl=0

The dates import correctly using the Convert Time option, but the All Day events span two days and show in Agenda layout as starting the day before.

The affected events are also “recurring” events – as in, they are created months in advance, with a number of dates. They are then imported via iCal. I’ve attached a sample .ics file for the affected single event. Note that it is a recurring event “Friday Frolics”.
ICS file from the original calendar:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jp2i7b1kapf4wyb/MCEventId11384.ics?dl=0

Do you think this issue might be limited to All Day events which are recurring? I don’t have any examples of single All Day events (imported) that have this issue.

To fix it in the short term, I’m reverting the iCal feeds back to “no convert” and putting up with the “UTC” label in the single event view. let me know if you have any insight into why these All Day events have time zone issues. Thanks!

So — to follow up:

Yesterday’s attempt was having one setting on, and one setting off. As in:
Each feed has: “Convert event’s data/time to calendar’s timezone”=ON
Plugin Settings: “Show events in calendar time zone”. = OFF

Do I need to turn the second item ON to have it work?

At this time, the site has been reverted to the display as described in the original post. Thanks for your advice.

Screen shot of current errors using settings noted above

Unfortunately, I’m opening this thread again.
The fix did not take. In fact, now we are getting different, more confusing errors. Possibly, this fix worked until the next server refresh, which was a common problem before? It looked fine yesterday, but now it doubled the problems.
Example:
Event: All day Thursday Board Games should be for Thursday July 28 (today).
On the calendar at 12:18 PM PDT it shows as
“July 27 Wednesday – July 28 Thursday – all day”
Help! This is messing up our events planning and confusing our users. Thanks for your consideration.
Screen shot attached.

For each feed, I clicked Edit and then selected “Convert event’s data/time to calendar’s timezone”. Then before I cleared the caches and refreshed the display, I changed our Settings to deselect the “Show events in calendar time zone”. Voila! no UTC – 0 and all is much happier. Thanks.

Um, no. I guess I probably should do that [smacks forehead].
I guess when it (that feature) wasn’t available during the upgrade, I forgot to go back and check it. (Before, our servers were all on the same time zone; now, your API is using something in Europe, I guess.)

I’ll check to see if this fixes it, and update the thread to resolved when I know for sure. Thanks!

For Calvin and the group:

Today, things seem to be working, and I didn’t change a thing.
The Refresh/Edit/Delete buttons are visible, and the feeds updated.
I did not check wp-cron. For our part, I call this Resolved, even though I don’t understand why there were several days that it didn’t work as advertised. Now it does. Thanks!

Unfortunately, it seems I’m still a WP newbie after 2 years, because I can’t figure out a quick way to test the wp-cron while in the WP admin. Do I need to go look at logs on my host in phpadmin or something? (So newbie lame. Sorry.) Thanks for your suggestions.

One more detail: I am currently logged into time.ly account within the plugin dashboard. And, we have not bought any addons. It is not clear from any of the threads on this topic in the past two weeks whether we have to buy Core+ to import ICS feeds. Please let us know what we need to do to get ICS feeds to work again. Thanks.

Hi Calvin. – Just want to report that we see the same problem at https://dev.testcmcla.org. We import two feeds from the same service (agenda examples on home page and at https://dev.testcmcla.org/events-old/. )

The original feeds are showing in the Import Feeds dialog, but show the same as above “Your feeds will be migrated….”.

I imported a new feed, and it imported fine!
BUT — like the others, after the first import, it is stuck, with no Refresh nor a Delete Feed button. See screen shot of display here:
https://dev.testcmcla.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ImportFeedDisplayNoRefreshNoDeleteButtons.jpg

I will check the wp cron jobs and report back. Thanks!

Hi BrettShum… I’m also following this thread, but it seems I’m at a dead end for my skills at this time. Here’s what I see with your plugin. Any suggestions you have are welcome, and thanks!

Working with Avada theme, I can create listings of staff, the individual posts of staff are searchable via site search, but the page comes up a 404 when clicked. Examples on this development server:
Staff directory example:
https://dev.testcmcla.org/testsimplestafflist/

Individual staff member sample:
https://dev.testcmcla.org/staff-members/g-foreman/

Since you do not provide a functional custom single post template in your plugin, we have false positives in our site search. This is different than what Leslie had in her example (which shows a single post page with a title, but no content.)

Example: someone looks for George Foreman in our site search.
https://dev.testcmcla.org/?s=george+foreman

Top result is “George Foreman” (a Staff Member custom post type). If they click on that link, they get a 404, making the whole exercise quite negative for some patrons (and eventually showing up negative in Google stats as well.)

If I want to use your plugin, either I
— have to learn custom post type template building in a hurry (and do it within the heavily-featured Avada theme framework), or
— figure out whether I can change the core to screen out this post type from our site search.

Is this a “feature” instead of a bug? Let me know if I’ve missed the point. Perhaps this is part of what your crew in Nashville might put on their dev list for the future?

Unfortunately, the search issue is a dealbreaker for us. I’ll have to go back to manually creating the directory without other leads to follow. Thanks for working on WP!

I have this same question because recently my hosting service (Bluehost – Optimized WP hosting) says that nginx (reverse proxy, which they use for OPWH) doesn’t play well with .htaccess-based blacklists. Something about how the REAL IP and the REMOTE ADDR are not connecting, so the blacklist in .htaccess is nonfunctional.

They told me to go learn about nginx, and ask questions on IRC channels….. I don’t have time to learn reverse proxy protocols to figure out whether your plugin is broken, or just not able to work on Bluehost’s Optimized hosting.

There is nothing about this in their Help Desk records — does AIOWP have any answer about how this plugin interacts with nginx? Thanks for taking a look at this question. –