nancy.hildebrandt

I can’t find any evidence that the site has redirects. The .htaccess file has no redirects, there is no redirect plugin, and I did try deactivating all the plugins except TEC and it didn’t change the broken links.

But if you’re suspecting that something idiosyncratic to this site is causing the issue, and I still wonder if that custom code I had in functions.php messed up something in the database, I could try an experiment where I delete the oldest event and recreate it and see if that solves any of the past event 404 errors that we see on the last page of past events. Do you think there’s a chance that could work? If recreating one event fixes a few broken links, well then there are only 25 events, I could just recreate them all, problem solved, maybe?

Hi Abz, The custom snippet is the one that appears in my initial post up above, commented “// Fix for Events Calendar showing past events in BB Posts module”. As I mentioned, the entire snippet is now commented out but it didn’t change the 404 behavior, but perhaps it affected the database entries in some way so it is still causing a problem even after the code was removed? I agree that code snippet seems very suspicious.

Hi Abz, Thank you, I appreciate YOUR patience in helping to solve this mystery. You’re right, it seems only to trigger on the last page of a list of events, going both backwards and (n the second example) forwards.

I’d be happy to give you an admin login link if there’s any secure way to get it to you. Meanwhile, let me know if you need any other information. That troubleshooting code that I mentioned is still in the functions.php file if that helps provide any information.

TEC Version 6.0.6.2. Would you like me to create a new post to report this?
I see this notice in Settings: “We have fully removed the legacy views from The Events Calendar 6.0. Your views have been automatically updated.”
I do recall getting a notice recently (before using the link checker) that the TEC database needed to be updated to match the latest version of the plugin, so I did that.
In TEC Settings/Display, the default stylesheet is set to Default Styles and the Events Template is set to Default.
BTW I’m also using two other TEC-related plugins: The Events Calendar Shortcode & Block v. 2.5.6; and The Events Calendar: Category Colors v. 7.1.1.
I use the latest versions of Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer. When I first noticed the link errors, I turned off the Beaver Themer layout for the Event Archive pages but it’s still in use as a layout for single events. That doesn’t seem relevant to the problem but I can trying disabling Themer for single events too if you think I should try that.
Just trying to think of anything that might be related.

Thanks again,
nancy

Thanks for looking into this Abz!

BTW I’m using the Integrity link checker app on Mac. It’s reporting 827 broken links out of 98811 links checked on 21086 pages. I filtered out the links related to outlook.office.com and outlook.live come which produce more errors so nearly all of the link errors are 404’s for links that include the query string &eventDisplay=past .

So this is really bizarre. Go here, this is a GOOD link:
https://linncountyswa.com/events/list/page/3/?tribe-bar-date=2022-11-01&eventDisplay=past
To the left of the Today button, click the Left Arrow, which takes you to the previous set of past events–it’s got ‘/page/4/’ in the URL. It displays some events, right?
Now refresh the page. Now you get a 404 error. But it’s the identical link.

This saves my sanity, I’m seeing the same behavior at https://linncountyswa.com. The 404 errors seem related to the query string &eventDsplay=Past.

Thanks very much for checking in such a thorough fashion. On the same evening that I reported this problem, I was able to edit galleries with 4.0 and JetPack and another theme called Responsive, but I couldn’t edit any galleries on either posts or pages with SemPress.

However, when I tried again tonight, I am also unable to reproduce the problem. Gallery edits are working fine. Before I tried, I updated the “Simple Page Ordering” plugin, so now I don’t know if that plugin might have been causing the problem. I’m sorry that I didn’t verify in a more carefully controlled manner.

Thanks again, I’m very glad it’s resolved, and if it happens again I will try removing my other plugins one at a time (including JetPack) to see if I can find the cause.