Avada and TEC List Widget JSON-LD Issue

[Mathew]

I have a strong love-hate relationship with Avada. Their customization of The Events Calendar was a nice addition to their theme, but there are inherent issues when vendors do this.

In version 5.1.6, there is an issue. If you have the List Widget or Advanced List Widget on ANY page, the JSON-LD “Descriptions, Venue Descriptions and Organizer Descriptions” are being populated with the content from the page that the widget is on, and not that of the event. I have not tested on versions prior to 5.1.6, so I do not know have far back the issue goes.

The issue is reproducible and is present on Avada’s demo site where they have a working example with the widget.

If you revert to Twenty Seventeen or another theme, the issue goes away and the description are populated with that of the event. It clearly is an issue with Avada’s code and not that of The Events Calendar.

I only post this thread as a PSA to those having Google Structured Data issues and you are using Avada.

I have escalated the issue within Avada’s support system, so hopefully it will get some attention and be resolved quickly.

Hope this helps.

[Victor]

Hi Mathew!

Thanks for reaching out and sharing that with us! I’m sure it can also be helpful for many others using Avada and our plugins.

Feel free to keep us posted on updates about this and do let us know if there is anything we can do from our side to help solving this issue.

Have a great weekend!
Victor

[Mathew]

Update.

The issue stems from a change made in version 5.1.6 of Avada in an attempt to deal with excerpts and shortcodes, essentially overriding the filters in TEC’s general.php.

While the change had the desired effect, it broke other critical areas.

I have highlighted the culprit code within their support tier and it will be addressed in a upcoming hotfix.

[Victor]

Hi Mathew!

Thanks so much for following up and posting updates about this issue.

We’ll take this into account if any other user reports the same issue.

Cheers!
Victor

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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