event calendar kills business directory

[allan]

Hello,
When I activate Event Calendar with or without the PRO plugin, events work fine but it kills WP Business Directory. I get page not found. See http://haltonenvironment.com/index.php/wpbdm-category/waste-management-services for example. My permalinks are set to: /index.php/%category%/%postname% . I really need both of the plugins to play nice.

[Rob]

Hi Allan. Thanks for the note, and sorry to hear you’re having issues. Sounds like you’ve got fine permalinks settings, so that doesn’t sound to be the issue. While we can’t guarantee that this plugin will play nicely with everything else out there, we want to help you out. I can get a dev to take a look here but will need to get a copy of the plugin to check out on our end first. Is it this one (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ttisbdir/)?

[allan]

Hi Rob,

It’s actually this one (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/business-directory-plugin/), although we’re currently working with an older version of it. We’ll be upgrading to the latest version shortly, but from our preliminary testing, that did not solve our problem.

The issue is, if I set the permalink to the default setting, it breaks the events calendar; if I set it to something else, such as the post name setting, it breaks the directory plugin.

If you could provide any insight on what might be causing the conflict, that’d be great. Thanks.

[Rob]

Ah, that makes sense. We have a bug with recurring events and default permalinks that came about in the 2.0 release and should be fixed for 2.1, now that we’re aware of the problem. So that should take care of the issue on the Events Calendar side. 2.1 is what we’re working on now and will have out between now and the end of March at the latest. (Feel free to check in between now and then if you’re looking for a more specific timetable as we know it). I realize that probably doesn’t help much in the immediate future, which I apologize for – but it’s unfortunately about all I can offer up at this point. Let me know if you’ve got any other questions or need anything else here.

[allan]

Rob,

Is it at all possible to get an interim load with this fix. My customer is very upset about this … I have to disable a major portion of their site due to this conflict and it has been going on for a while. I really appreciate this.

If that is not possible, would it make sense to get an older load … before this bug crept in? I know going backwards is not great but I really need to get this fixed.

thx

[Rob]

Hey Allan: have you updated to 2.0.4 yet, and found that the issue persists? If not, do you want to give the 2.1 beta a shot to see if it fixes the issue? If the former doesn’t do the trick and you want to pursue the latter, shoot me an email (rob at tri.be) referencing this thread and I’ll hook it up. My apologies again for the inconvenience thus far.

[allan]

Rob,

I tried 2.0.4 and it doesn’t fix the issue. Here is what my developer says “Part of the problem seems to be that the calendar works on the premise of having /events/ in the URL. The default permalink setting does not have that option (and that’s the only setting that has been working with the directory).”

I’m really stuck and this has been going on for a long time. Help!

[allan]

Rob,

I’ve gone to Setting -> The Events Calendar and I don’t see where to change the permalinks.

Bottom line is that I need this to work with default wordpress permalinks since changing that breaks other plugins.

I’ve tried other event plugins and they work fine but I’d really like to stick with yours. It is better (I bought the pro version) and I already have a huge number of events entered.

Can you please get Jonah to jump in and help resolve this. I’m happy to provide him access admin access.

[Jonah]

Hi Allan, as Rob mentioned The Events Calendar w/PRO plugins should work fine (aside from the recurring events bug) with permalinks set to their default. What is the issue you have with the plugin when permalinks are set to the default?

When permalinks are set to the default you’ll need to access the event pages like so:

http://www.yoururl.com/?post_type=tribe_events&eventDisplay=month (grid/calendar view)
http://www.yoururl.com/?post_type=tribe_events (list view)

So, you’ll need to modify your navigation to point to these URL’s and not the pages like you have now. Hopefully that helps… Let me know if you have any other questions.

[allan]

jonah,

Thank you for this. The issue was that the event calendar view and list view just weren’t being displayed at all with the permalinks set to default. It only worked if I used postname in the permalink. That broke another plugin (directory).

The URLs you provided worked and I now have both running together (albeit with default permalinks which isn’t great but livable). Thank you for jumping in.

[Rob]

Excellent to hear this did the trick, Allan. Please let us know if you have any other issues down the road.

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