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I see things that look like event titles, with a gray background:
– Bayou Bend Field Trip 4th-6th Grade
– Open House Preview for Prospective Parents
etc.

Did you get it working after you last posted, or is something not working the way you want it to?

I’ve noticed that some others have had to make a new feed too after the update.

Glad it’s working!

Good start. Now that you’ve copied the Calendar ID, put that into the Feed Settings, where it says “Google Calendar ID.” The next step is to pull out the four-digit number that gets created, where it says “Feed Shortcode”. Put the four-digit numbers, separated by commas, in the widget.

You can create a feed for each calendar, and then list all the feed IDs, separated by commas, in the widget. To get the right calendar ID for each calendar, see https://wpdocs.philderksen.com/google-calendar-events/getting-started/find-calendar-id/

There is a php date format, %w, that outputs 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, and so on. Maybe you could use this and put something in your functions.php file. Or maybe you could do something with javascript?

Could you share your feed settings?

If you try putting shortcode in a page, instead of relying on the widget, do things go any better?

I found playing with some of the feed settings to be helpful, see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/problems-with-descending-order?replies=1

Specifically, what do you have for “Number of Events per Page” in your feed settings?

When you are testing and making changes, Diana, you will want to clear the cache instead of waiting for the 7200 seconds to go by. I know three ways of doing that. There are two places where you can manually clear the cache, and if you are doing a lot of fiddling, you can temporarily set the automatic cache clearance interval to a very small number, such as 1, and then change it back to a big number when you’re happy with your results.

If I understood your question right, here’s what you do:

In the left-hand sidebar in your admin pages, click on “GCal Events” which you’ll find between “Comments” and “Appearance”. This will show you a nice table of whatever feeds you have created for the plugin to use. There is a column there called “Feed ID”. That’s an easy place to find the number you need. It will probably look something like this: 1409

Now when you set up the widget, you’ll type or paste in that number where it says “Feeds to Display.”

Are you saying that you’re trying to pull from the same feed on both a page and a sidebar? (If not, please ignore the next remarks.)

It would be better to create two different feeds for these two different purposes. Because the formatting code in the feed will govern what will be pulled and displayed from the google calendar.

So for the sidebar, if I understood right, you’d like to display only:
Eventname
Start & End time
location

(I’m guessing the date should appear above all of that.)

I think the following might work:

<div class="gce-list-event gce-tooltip-event">[link][event-title][/link]</div>
<div>[if-not-all-day] [start-time] - [end-time] [/if-not-all-day] </div>
[if-location] <div>Location: [location]</div> [/if-location]

To avoid including the description, make sure your formatting code in your feed does not include anything like
[if-description] <div>Description: [description]</div> [/if-description]

Thanks — the extra click with the screenshot did the trick and I can read the writing much better now.

Hmm. Your calendar id looks so different from mine. Mine is of the form
(gobbledygook)@group.calendar.google.com
and yours is
[email protected]

I don’t know enough about the plugin or google calendar to know if this is significant.

I don’t have any other ideas offhand about the looking forward part, but for the looking back part — I went through my own conniptions to get this to work on my site. See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/problems-with-descending-order?replies=1

Your original post said you were getting “No events to display” for both shortcodes at https://www.eulerpartners.com/events. But when I visit that page, I see “APOLOGIES: WE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY WITH THE CALENDAR PLUGIN RIGHT NOW AND EVENTS AREN’T DISPLAYING. WE HOPE TO FIND A FIX IN THE NEXT DAY OR THREE.” I understand — I had to do something similar on my site.

We’ll be able to see your results if you send us a link to a new test page (excluded from navigation) that has the short codes included.

Also, would you mind redoing the first screenshot (it’s very hard to read — maybe it would work better to zoom in a little closer and split it up into multiple screenshots) and also giving us the settings and formatting for feed 29452? What is the difference supposed to be between the two shortcodes? I mean, what’s the difference between the two in terms of how things should look to the visitor?

Have you taken a close look at this? https://wpdocs.philderksen.com/google-calendar-events/getting-started/find-calendar-id/

When I was working on getting my “Past Events” section to work, I was baffled by no events showing up. Eventually I figured out that what the plugin was trying to display was June, 2015, and there really weren’t any entered into the calendar yet. I had to do a lot of fudging to get things to work right. The plugin does seem to have become finicky under the new Google regime.

Could you make a test page that doesn’t appear in the menu? There’s a plugin that makes that quite easy — called “Exclude Pages from Navigation.”

Also GCE allows you to duplicate a feed.

I had a similar problem with an all-day event’s event title not showing up, but it was just with the first such event. I’ve documented my work-around at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/bug-report-event-title-missing-in-predictable-pattern?replies=1

Sere7, here’s an idea, I give it a 1% chance of helping —
[start-date format="l, F j"] [if-not-all-day] <div>[link][event-title][/link][start-time] [if-location][location][/if-location] </div>[/if-not-all-day] [if-all-day] <div>[link][event-title][/link] All day [/if-all-day] [if-location], [location][/if-location]</div>

I am assuming the missing quotation mark and the extraneous comma in your code were typos in the post, and not really present in your actual code.

Also note there’s a place in the feed settings for the date format to go. You could try moving your format down there.