Disable the auto-generated calendar page

[michael]

Hi –

I have a members-only site where ‘events’ have been renamed ‘departures.’

Much to my client’s dismay, we discovered the pages

https://sales.wilderness-explorers.com/departures

and

http://sales.wilderness-explorers.com/departures

are visible to the wide open world even though I use a membership plugin to block access to my pages unless the user is logged in.

This is because those are not actual WP pages – they’re ‘virtual’ pages generated by your plugin, and outside the access control tools of my membership plugin.

I found this article to be very informative:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/making-members-calendar/

but honestly I am dismayed that the workaround requires mucking around with the volatile functions.php file.

So, please, good people at Modern Tribe… please add at tick box to the plugin settings in a future release:

0 Disable auto-generated pages

Since we can create an actual WP page with calendar content via shortcodes – and membership plugins can readily control access to those real WP pages – we would end up with identical functionality and a security/privacy hole would be plugged.

Most of all, this simple preference tickbox would keep your customers out of the update-vulnerable functions. php file.

Thanks-

M

[Courtney]

Hey Michael

I’m sorry you are having this trouble.  Are you able to walk through the functions.php modifications?  Good catch finding that article.

We’d love for you to submit this suggestion to our Feature Requests.  While we can’t guarantee that we will add this option, the items here with the most votes do get our attention.

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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