tastycarp

Yep that did the trick I created my own events, locations and category pages with the appropriate shortcode in them, in settings I set Event List/Archives Events page to [No Events Page] and everything is behaving as I want it.

Yes I did try that plugin, and used the format /%postname%.htm in the permalinks settings. Each event looks ok ending in .htm. Of the pages generated by the plugin mydomain/events/locations.htm and mydomain/events/categories.htm etc work but mydomain/events.htm returns a 404. It was the closest I got to a working solution.

One question and thought, how does the plugin take over the content of the 5 pages it generates? Maybe I make my own events page named something else and use a shortcode to display the events if that is available.

Answering part of my own question after a bit of googling the issue looks to be the usage of =&

$obj =& new MyClass();
The ampersand is not required any more since php 5; you can simply write

$obj = new MyClass();

removing the & from every file that the error pops up on will see you modding lines on exec-php.php as well as admin.php ,ajax.php, cache.php and manager.php in the includes dir

Doing that gets rid of the debug message and the plugin still works.

That said, although this issue is not a deal breaker at the moment it is concerning using such an out of date plugin. Any suggestions of a better drop in replacement would be most welcome.

I found the file functions-formatting.php was renamed to formatting.php sometime around 2.0.6 so I did a search and replace on the index.php and renamed it in the script. This script will only work up to 2.2.3. The 2.3.x series renames the wp_category table causing this script to not work. It wouldn’t put things into the category I wanted so I ended up doing that manually.

I had same issue.. I commented out the this line at the top: $_wp_installing = 1; and I got a bit further.. looks like it works but then it gets stuck at the second step looking for the file wp-includes/functions-formatting.php.

I recon this script is old and not quite working with the newer versions of wordpress as the file above is not in the version im using. I will try an older vesion of WordPress and try to upgrade from it.