Bug in Day View

[Ben]

When you select a day from the month calendar view by clicking on the date, the first item listed for the day is missing the event title (see attached). I am using 2014 theme and have disabled all plugins except the Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro (both v4.2).

[Josh]

Hey Gene,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

I tested this out on my local install with the latest versions of the plugins and the latest version of the Twenty Fourteen theme but was unfortunately unable to replicate the issue here.

One thing I did notice in the screenshots though was the layout of the labels on the month view going to mobile. This was a bug in a previous version of the plugin but was addressed in one of the last few updates. Based on that, I’m wondering if there are any customizations in the version of the Twenty Fourteen theme that you’re using that are impacting the calendar?

Thanks!

[Ben]

No, no customization…just using the version that installs with WordPress.

[Ben]

I deleted The Event Calendar and Event Calendar Pro plug-ins, downloaded v4.2.1 of both plugins fro your website, re-installed them both. Disabled all other plugins, switched to vanilla 2014 theme (from WordPress install–no mods). Still getting the error in both list and day views. Solid bug, i.e., not intermittent.

I can give you access to the site of you need it to debug.

[Ben]

This bug was caused by the instructions in the Knowledgebase article “Configuring The Events Calendar with Constants”
at https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/configuring-the-events-calendar-with-constants in the section shown below…

Fix Title Conflict with Some Themes

Have you noticed that sometimes the title for an event page isn’t displaying properly? Is it displaying twice or are loops of events displaying a single event title rather than an appropriate archive title? This could be due to your theme calling “the_title();” outside of the loop for that page.

To fix this problem, use TRIBE_MODIFY_GLOBAL_TITLE to overwrite the default title being output by the theme.
1 define(‘TRIBE_MODIFY_GLOBAL_TITLE’, true);

Removing the define fixed the problem.

[Josh]

Hey Gene,

Ah, that makes sense! I reached out to our team to see if anyone else could recreate the issue and we weren’t able to. This change is intended for very specific circumstances which wouldn’t apply to the Twenty Fourteen which is why this particular issue was happening here.

I’m glad you were able to find the root of the issue here.  I’ll go ahead and close this thread for now. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to open a new one.

Thanks!

[Author]

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