404 Errors on non-month views (theme conflict)

Hey Mark,

Sorry you’re having trouble here! You describe your 404 behavior as follows:

it shows the event list, but is showing “not found” content above it.

I checked out your site, and went to the list page that you mentioned – here’s a screenshot of what I found → https://cloudup.com/cQ36MC2xlaY

The good news is that that page is only partially broken. I say “partially” because the little text box saying “There were no results found.” is display correctly – there indeed do not seem to be events within the time range to display, which causes The Events Calendar to return that text and this is working properly.

However, The Events Calendar returns a 404 error status for pages like this, where no events are located. And so if a theme has a 404.php file template, which yours seems to have, then that template will be displayed when a no-events-found page is loaded. This is where the “Oops!”-style text comes from on your /calendar/list page.

To fix this, we have a great, simple little plugin that will still preserve the “No events found” text, but will change the status headers to 200 status, thus preventing the 404 error and, hopefully, the loading of your “Oops”-style page template in cases like this one.

You can download that plugin for here → http://m.tri.be/no404s

Install it and activate it, and then go to Settings > Permalinks in your admin. Click “Save Changes” without actually changing anything, which is a little WordPress “trick” to refresh the permalinks across your site, and then try out that list page again and see what you find. Hopefully that “Oops!” text goes away 🙂

Let us know if that helps!

Thanks,
George

Hey Mark,

Apologies for the delayed response – your idea about adding additional conditionals to the is_404() check is exactly my thinking, too, and hopefully will work here.

Something like this might help:

if ( is_404() && ! tribe_is_month() && ! tribe_is_week() ) {

}

Now, this conditional might not look super neat and clean, but in theory it should work quite well. We have conditionals for all of the calendar views, in the same patterns as the Month- and Week-view conditionals shown above – you can see a list of them here: https://gist.github.com/jo-snips/2415009

Use as many of those conditionals as you need here in the same pattern as above, and it should work quite well. I’m sorry that this is the best solution that comes to mind, but it’s odd that your theme is handling this so stringently (as evidenced by the fact the 2015 did not…)

Let us know if adding conditionals helps at all!

Thanks, and thanks for your patience while we dug into this issue 🙂
George