Known Issues
An updated list of high-priority bugs we’re actively trying to squash with keyboards.
The issues reported below are ones we’ve identified as significant, high-priority issues that we are currently investigating. Please note that this is not a complete list of every single known issue.
🕗 Last Updated: June 22, 2022
Table of Contents
Not fixed yet (some of those have workarounds)
- 🐞 Partial Support for FSE themes
- 🐞 Huge Subscribe to Calendar Icons (Skeleton Styles)
- 🐞 Incomplete CSV Events imports, missing: events, category assignment, featured image, etc.
- 🐞 Event Tickets Plus App doesn’t work with Tickets Commerce tickets
- 🐞 Event Tickets Plus app showing “Ticket scanned already” message for unscanned tickets
- ℹ️ PHP 8 compatibility and support
- ℹ️ Daylight Saving Time Issues with Recurring Events
Recently Fixed
- ✅ The event time zone is set to UTC+0 when creating a new event (Avada)
- ✅ Date and time metabox does not show up in some cases
- ✅ Non-US-based State/Province does not save for Venues
- ✅ Subscribing to events with Google Calendar and iCal imports events starting on the first of the month
- ✅ Stripe checkout problems with Tickets Commerce.
- ✅ Tickets block total incorrect preview
- ✅ Custom Attendee Registration page using the “Default template”
- ✅ Freemius vulnerability
- ✅ Google Search Console error: Missing field eventStatus
- ✅ Default mobile view does not load correctly when the calendar is set as the homepage
- ✅ All events have the same title on the WordPress Dashboard
- ✅ Tickets disappeared on the frontend OR there is a fatal error on the site after updating to Event Tickets 5.1.9 and Event Tickets Plus 5.2.9
- ✅ 503 ( Expired License Key ) error when updating Event Tickets Plus
- ✅ Tickets created with Tickets Commerce do not sync into Promoter
- ✅ Attendees who purchased a ticket created with Tickets Commerce don’t sync into Promoter
- ✅ Attendee Registration Page breaking with WooCommerce 6.3.0
🐞 Partial Support for FSE Themes
Status: Scope in Progress
Description:
FSE themes are now alive and kicking. In fact, starting with WordPress 6.0, the default theme, TwentyTwentyTwo, is an FSE theme.
For now, FSE themes don’t break with The Events Calendar, but there is still significant work to be done on our end to provide support for basic things such as:
- Template overrides
- Programmatical customizations
- Legacy Widget support
- Etc…
As you can imagine, we are not happy about this and we’ll spend the rest of the year gradually improving FSE support. Hang in there!
Workaround:
- Temporarily use a non-FSE theme
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
TEC-4419
🐞 Huge Subscribe to Calendar Icons (Skeleton Styles)
Status: Fix in Progress
Description:
The Events Calendar site owners that are using Skeleton Styles (under Events > Settings > Display) are seeing huge SVG icons on the single event page after updating to 5.16.0+
Workaround:
- Don’t use Skeleton Styles until the fix is released
- Use CSS to reduce the size of the icons: svg.tribe-common-c-svgicon–cal-export (!important might be required)
- Use CSS to hide the icons: tribe-common .tribe-common-c-svgicon
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
TEC-4399
✅ The event time zone is set to UTC+0 when creating a new event (Avada)
Status: Fixed
Description:
When creating a new event, then the event time zone is set to UTC+0 regardless of the WordPress time zone setting under Settings > General and regardless of the TEC time zone settings under Events > Settings > General tab.
This is a known issue when using the Avada theme. This is not something we can fix on our end, it will have to be a fix from Theme Fusion / Avada. They already know about the issue, and they are planning to include the fix in their next update.
Workaround:
Reverting to the previous version of Avada should solve the issue.
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
n/a
✅ Date and time metabox does not show up in some cases
Status: Fixed in The Events Calendar 5.14.2
Description:
This issue impacts users of the Classic Editor plugin that have set the Allow users to switch editors option to Yes and the default editor for all users to Classic Editor.
Under these conditions, when trying to create or edit an event in the Classic Editor, the Events Calendar meta boxes do not load.
As a result, it’s not possible to edit or see the date/time, organizer, etc
This issue is particularly noticeable for users that are also using a page builder (Divi, Avada, Elementor, Beaver, etc.).
Workaround:
Head over to Events > Settings > General and uncheck the Enable Block Editor for events settings and hit Save Changes.
In the text of the Classic Editor, remove the block code (e.g. <!–) and save the event. (https://d.pr/i/jUUc07).
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
TEC-4287
🐞 Incomplete CSV Events imports, missing: events, category assignment, featured image, etc.
Status: Fix in progress
Description:
For some users, when trying to import an Events CSV file, all seems to be working fine.
But, upon closer examination, there are appears to be missing information from the import: events, category assignment, featured image, etc. Exactly as though some records were skipped.
The issue seems to be related to the configuration of the webserver for some users. There were some reports of CSV imports taking a really long time and even timing out.
Workaround:
In most cases, staying on the screen (as opposed to navigating away, fixes the issue). Some users have also reported fixing the issue by running the same import several times until completion. Others were not so lucky.
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
TEC-4079
🐞 Event Tickets Plus App doesn’t work with Tickets Commerce tickets
Status: Fix in progress
Description:
Event Tickets Plus App doesn’t work with Tickets Commerce tickets.
Affected Products:
Event Tickets Plus App, Event Tickets, Event Tickets Plus
Internal Ref.:
ET-1436
🐞 Event Tickets Plus App showing “Ticket scanned already” message for unscanned tickets
Status: Fix in progress
Description:
Event Tickets Plus App showing “Ticket scanned already” message for unscanned tickets.
Affected Products:
Event Tickets Plus App
Internal Ref.:
ETPAPP-14
✅ Tickets created with Tickets Commerce do not sync into Promoter
Status: Fixed in Event Tickets 5.3.2
Description:
When a ticket is created with Tickets Commerce (Event Tickets), that event will not sync into Promoter.
The fix will be included in the next version of Event Tickets, which is planned for the first half of April.
Workaround:
Download and install this development version of Event Tickets.
Affected Products:
Event Tickets
Internal Ref.:
ET-1458
✅ Non US-based State/Province does not save in Venues
Status: Fixed in The Events Calendar 5.14.1
Description:
Adding venues while creating events works great.
However, in the following cases, the state/province disappears (field is blank after saving and nothing gets displayed on the FE) when the address is not US-based:
- Creating the Venue via the Venue UI
- Editing an existing Venue
Workaround:
Download the following temporary version of The Events Calendar and replace your current one until the fix is released
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
TEC-4309
✅ Attendees who purchased a ticket created with Tickets Commerce don’t sync into Promoter
Status: Fixed in Event Tickets 5.3.2
Description:
When a new attendee is generated for a “Tickets Commerce” ticket, then the attendee does not get pushed to Promoter.
Workaround:
There is no known workaround at the moment.
Affected Products:
Event Tickets
Internal Ref.:
ET-1475
✅ Subscribing to events with Google Calendar and iCal imports events starting on the first of the month
Status: Fixed in The Events Calendar 5.14.1
Description:
Subscribing to Google Calendar imports events beginning from the 1st of the month, including past events. This also affects the count towards the event import limit (30 by default).
For example, if you visit your site’s /events page on March 14th and click on Subscribe To Calendar > Google Calendar, the events imported will start on March 1st.
Workaround:
None. Wait for the upcoming The Events Calendar release.
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
TEC-4223
✅ Attendee Registration Page breaking with WooCommerce 6.3.0
Status: Fixed in Event Tickets Plus 5.4.2
Description:
Since the WooCommerce v6.3.0 update, the attendee registration page is not working anymore for WooCommerce Tickets.
Workaround:
Using the following snippet: https://gist.github.com/rafsuntaskin/eddc2b73b3750a6a03db35f482b011d4
Affected Products:
Event Tickets Plus
Internal Ref.:
ETP-785
✅ Stripe checkout problems with Tickets Commerce.
Status: Fixed in Event Tickets 5.3.1
Description:
For some users, it is not possible to complete checkout while trying to sell tickets via Tickets Commerce. They see JavaScript errors in their console and possibly the following errors when they are trying to pay:
- “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘post’)”
Workaround:
Update to Event Tickets 5.3.1
Affected Products:
Event Tickets
Internal Ref.:
ET-1447
✅ Tickets block total incorrect preview
Status: Fixed in Event Tickets 5.3.1
Description:
For some users that are using only Event Tickets without Event Tickets Plus, the version 1 of the tickets block may be rendered and not the version 2 where we fixed many issues with total calculation for currencies like euros.
As a result, they may be experiencing incorrect total preview when they add tickets.
Workaround:
Update to Event Tickets 5.3.1
Affected Products:
Event Tickets
Internal Ref.:
ET-1448
✅ Custom Attendee Registration page using the “Default template”
Status: Fixed in Event Tickets Plus 5.4.1
Description:
If the user has a custom Attendee Registration page that uses the same slug as the “Attendee Registration URL slug“, When the user navigates to the frontend of the attendee registration page, then it will always render the content using the “Default Page Template“ instead of the one specified for the Custom Page.
Affected Products:
Event Tickets Plus
Internal Ref.:
ETP-784
✅ Freemius vulnerability
Status: Fixed in The Events Calendar 5.14.0.4 , Event Tickets 5.3.0.1
Description:
In really late February 2022, Fremius found a severe security vulnerability in its library.
This monetization, analytics, and marketing library for WordPress is used by more than 400 of the most popular WordPress plugins, including The Events Calendar, Event Tickets.
Upon being notified, we upgraded the Freemius found in our plugins to version 2.4.3 within 24 hours.
This completely patches the vulnerability.
Workaround:
Upgrade to The Events Calendar 5.14.0.4 + and Event Tickets 5.3.0.1 +.
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar, Event Tickets
Internal Ref.:
✅ Venue and Organizer metabox missing
Status: Fixed in The Events Calendar 5.14.0.3
Description:
When creating a new organizer or venue at the backend, the section where you enter the specific information about the organizer/venue like address, email, phone number and so, is missing.
They only appear after you save for the first time.
Workaround:
Upgrade to The Events Calendar 5.14.0.3 +
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
✅ Google Search Console error: Missing field eventStatus
Status: Apply a snippet
Description:
Google has recently leveled up in regards to the information it is expecting from an event. This is why we added an event status option dropdown as of The Events Calendar 5.11.0.
This setting will keep Google happy with any new event that you create.
Alas, the event status option is not retroactive. In other words, if you created events before the feature was released, they will not have a defined event status.
Of course, you could manually go into each event and define an event status. But that is pretty time-consuming. We have a better solution 🙂
Workaround:
Use the following snippet to add the eventScheduled event status to all events where an event status was not added.
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar, The Events Calendar Pro, Virtual Events
Internal Ref.:
✅ Default mobile view does not load correctly when the calendar is set as the homepage
Status: Fixed in The Events Calendar 5.12.3
Description:
Whenever the Calendar is set as the home page of a site, the default mobile view setting is not respected when looking at the site on a mobile device.
Workaround:
Upgrade to the latest version of The Events Calendar
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar 5.1.2
Internal Ref.:
TEC-3826
ℹ️ PHP 8 compatibility and support
Status: In progress
PHP 8.0:
Our plugins support PHP 8.0, although it is possible to still run into some errors when using PHP 8.0. Once these errors are reported to us we will log a bug ticket and a fix will be worked on as soon as possible.
Fatal errors on PHP 8.0 are likely to be treated as priority bugs.
Keep in mind, that at the time of writing, PHP 8 is still in “beta” for WordPress.
PHP 8.1:
PHP 8.1 is very recent. It was officially released on November 25th, 2021, and WordPress itself doesn’t yet fully support it.
We haven’t tested or developed anything for PHP 8.1 and thus, our plugins are not yet compatible with it. The development team will be working on supporting PHP 8.1, but right now there’s no defined timeline for this.
If you encounter any errors you can report them to us. We will log a bug ticket for it, which will be really helpful for us when we start working on PHP 8.1 compatibility.
Affected Products:
All
Internal Ref.:
n/a
✅ All events have the same title on the WordPress Dashboard
Status: Fixed in The Events Calendar 5.12.0
Description:
After updating to The Events Calendar 5.11.0, logging into the WordPress dashboard, and visiting the events listing page, all of the events have the same title.
This issue seems to happen when:
- Using object cache with Redis from LiteSpeed Cache
- Using object cache with Redis Object Cache standalone plugin
- Using Memcached in LiteSpeed
Workaround:
The following two workarounds are known until we fix this:
- Disable object caching
- Downgrade to The Events Calendar 5.10.1
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar 5.11.0
Internal Ref.:
BTRIA-1072
✅ Tickets disappeared on the frontend OR there is a fatal error on the site after updating to Event Tickets 5.1.9 and Event Tickets Plus 5.2.9
Status: Fixed in Event Tickets 5.1.9.1
Description:
After updating to Event Tickets Plus 5.2.9, when visiting an event page that has a ticket, then there is either a fatal error on the page or the ticket form is empty.
This error comes from a conflict with some WooCommerce payment plugins.
Workaround:
Until a more permanent fix is released you can use the following snippet to fix the issue. Copy the snippet into your (child) theme’s functions.php file.
Affected Products:
- Event Tickets 5.1.9
- Event Tickets Plus 5.2.9
Internal Ref.:
ET-1174
✅ 503 ( Expired License Key ) error when updating Event Tickets Plus
Status: Fixed
Description:
When trying to update Event Tickets Plus to version 5.2.9, the system would give the following error, even with active licenses:
503 ( Expired License Key ): Sorry, your access to this file has expired.
This was a tagging glitch in our latest release of Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus, which has already been fixed.
The current versions are:
- Event Tickets 5.1.9
- Event Tickets Plus 5.2.9.
The update should work now seamlessly. If you are still having issues with the auto-update, please, log in to your account at theeventscalendar.com, go to Downloads, select the right versions from the dropdowns and proceed with a manual install.
Affected Products:
Event Tickets Plus
Internal Ref.:
n/a
✅ The single event page doesn’t load when using the updated design
Status: Fixed in The Events Calendar 5.8.1
Description:
When using the updated design for The Events Calendar (Events > Settings > Display tab > Use updated calendar design) and clicking on an event to look at the details the actual calendar page reloads and the single event page does not load.
So far we have heard of this case when using any of the following:
- ListingPro theme
- Winwood theme
- PDF Poster plugin
Workaround:
Until the issue gets resolved downloading and installing this plugin could help solve the issue.
If the above plugin doesn’t help or if you have experienced the same issue with a different theme or plugin, please let us know about it.
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar
Internal Ref.:
TEC-3975
✅ Events overflow the grid in month view when using Avada
Status: Fixed in Avada 7.4
Description:
When using the Avada theme, if there are multiple events on a day, then the events might overflow the day cell in month view. Example screenshot.
The issue is coming from the theme, the developers have already been notified.
Workaround:
Until the issue gets resolved the following CSS snippet should fix this glitch:
.tribe-events-view--month .tribe-events-calendar-month__day {
height: auto;
}
Affected Products:
The Events Calendar 5.x.x
Internal Ref.:
n/a
ℹ️ Daylight Saving Time Issues with Recurring Events
Reading
Description:
Daylight Saving Time can confuse the best of us. If your recurring events appear to be offset by an hour and you’re note sure why, check out these knowledgebase articles to learn how your events may have been affected.
We are also aware of glitches that can happen when the Series Engine plugin is active. If you are using this plugin, please note that they have settings you can take advantage of to resolve this problem.
Workaround:
n/a
Affected Products:
Events Calendar Pro
Internal Ref.:
n/a
Legend:
🐞 Bug / issue
✅ Fixed bug / issue
ℹ️ Reading, info