Calendar Views Are Different…Unsure Why

[Chris Bishop]

My default calendar is at rockymountaincc.com/calendar. This shows simply the calendar with the dots, which I presume is “month” view by default. However, when I use the [tribe_events] shortcode on a page (rockymountaincc.com/events), it gives me a full calendar with the events listed with popup bubbles. To my understanding, that shortcode is supposed to follow the “default view” setting (“month” in my case) unless you say otherwise in the shortcode. So why are these 2 views different, then? What element am I not getting on how these views work?

Thanks,
Chris

[Courtney]

Hello Chris

Can you start by going through our Testing for Conflicts Guide https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts/?  I am wondering if you might have a plugin or theme conflict.  Begin by deactivating all other plugins, using a theme such as Twenty Seventeen https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyseventeen/, and see if the issue still persists.

Also, double check for any other updates available (Dashboard » Updates). 

Please let me know if the issue still persists after these tests.

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[Chris Bishop]

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Rocky Mountain Community Church

[Chris Bishop]

Sorry for the auto-reply from our email server…

While this is an active production site, I can’t disable all plugins (there are MANY). BUT…I’m VERY CONFIDENT that this is a theme conflict if it’s a conflict at all. We use Native Church which has its own built-in events. I’ve noticed that the default page EC Pro uses (in my case, directory “calendar”) has a Page Title of “Easter Service”, which is likely one of our first events listed. It appears one workaround is listed here, but that only changes the calendar’s title, not the page title at the very top (a theme-initiated page title, I’m sure).

It seems as though the rockymountaincc.com/calendar default page is either using the widget-equivalent calendar view or else is responding as if it’s always in mobile view. The rockymountaincc.com/events page (the one with the shortcode used instead), will respond at mobile viewports to match the /calendar page’s view. If I resize the /calendar page, it adds text with random /*> characters (not sure why). If I view the /calendar page on mobile, it automatically has those characters on first load (not requiring any viewport resizing).

I’d be happy to provide a login for you to view my site if that’s something you’re willing to do (I’d love to sort out these conflicts).

[Chris Bishop]

Quick reply: I added the no-mobile code to disable all mobile versions as listed here. This solved the problem of the /calendar page’s view. If you visit it now, it’s showing the full month calendar, not the mobile version. So for some reason however, when I hover over an event, it doesn’t create a popup, but rather embeds it in to the calendar. Sounds like a JavaScript conflict, but I can’t find any console errors. So the default page is reading as if it’s a mobile port (when it isn’t), the title is that of an individual event, and the page might have a javascript conflict that I can’t locate.

EDIT: The hover issue AND MOBILE VIEW was a minification conflict, I believe. So I solved that. The overall REMAINING question is why the page title is wrong.

Thanks for your help in all of this.
Chris

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by Chris Bishop. Reason: Edited with update regarding minification
• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by Chris Bishop.

[Chris Bishop]

Moral of the Story:

Check your minification plugins! I still have an issue with the page title, but I’ll create a new post for that since it’s a separate topic from the original post’s concept.

[Courtney]

Thanks Chris

Keep us posted on any other ways we can help.

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[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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