WebSmithery

THANK YOU! You’ve saved me a lot of time!

Thanks for that. I’ve used the new nav template and the issue appears to be resolved.

But one further comment—and perhaps you would consider this to be a feature request rather than a bug report, but prior to trying this fix I had assumed it was all part of the same issue.

Navigating between pages of listed events uses AJAX and relies entirely on JavaScript. With JS disabled it is not possible to page any further forward in time than the initial view (with the next occurring event at the top of the page) or further back in time than just one page. Whatever page you are on within the calendar, the ‘Previous Events’ link always has an href property of ‘events/past’ (without any query string) and the ‘Next Events’ link always has an href property of ‘events/upcoming’ (again with no query string). This clearly had accessibility issues and SEO issues.

Whilst I’m not sure the genuine extent of any accessibility issues as almost every device now has JS enabled, the SEO issues seem to be quite clear and pages other than the initial and the one previous to it will be invisible to crawlers. I understand that crawlers are becoming more AJAX aware, but only if the site supports the AJAX crawling scheme, which this plugin does not.

It may be that this is a conscious decision by the developers, but if so, that seems strange, considering the plugin uses hCalendar microformats for SEO, but on pages which the crawlers can’t see.

Surely the simple solution would be to have genuine links with query strings as fallbacks for search engines and anyone else without JavaScript.

Comments from the developers on this would be appreciated. Specifically, is this a known issues which is due to be resolved in an upcoming release? And if not, why not?

Strangely, on this thread the developers are denying there is any problem, yet here they say:

I am very sorry, that is actually a bug introduced in a recent version of our plugin. ?? We have it logged as a high priority fix. It will likely be fixed in our next release, if not the one after. Keep an eye on the changelog of our future plugin updates for a fix.

Though even then I’m surprised that a ‘high priority fix’ that renders list view (the only view I use) unusable may not be fixed until the release after next. I would have expected a problem of this magnitude to be sorted within a matter of days, if not hours.

I’m glad I’m not the only one experiencing this. Cheeked this forum at the end of last week and couldn’t find any mention of it. Just done a clean, vanilla installation of WP and the Events Calendar plugin as final test (https://ftd.websmithery.co.uk/events) and was just about to start a new thread here when I found it was a known bug.

I hope this is fixed soon as I’m developing a site for a client and can’t really demo it until this is sorted.