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I’m putting together a site using DirectoryPress, and am just setting up the site. When I activate the Events Calendar plugin with all other plugins disabled all the widget areas and most of the widgets disappear from the widget control panel. You can see a screenshot at http://www.inbangor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/EventsPluginActive.JPG . If I disable the Event Calendar plugin they all return. Screen shot of that at http://www.inbangor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/EventsPluginDeactivated.JPG . Any suggestions? This is the free version 2.0.11. My business license for PRO ran out last month, and my community events business license is still active until July. I will be renewing both to use on this and another directory press site if I can get it to work with the theme. Any suggestions?
Steve
Hi Steve, that’s strange.
Perhaps you could send a copy of the theme to us so we can take a look and try troubleshooting it? I’ll put our contact details below.
Thanks, Barry. I forwarded a copy of the theme for you to look at. Please let me know if you need anything else.
Did you isolate this issue to a conflict between DirectoryPress and The Events Calendar – both work for me. Is it possible the conflict is somewhere else (or relates to another plugin, but only arises when all three elements are present)?
What happens if you take the site back to a basic state with only The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO and Twenty Twelve, and if you then activate DirectoryPress – does the same problem happen at that stage?
Yes, you’re right, it does occur with just DirectoryPress and The Events Calendar running.
On this occasion though I don’t think there’s a lot we can do. To give you the short version, DirectoryPress is nullifying – wiping out – a global object called $wp_query which is created by the WordPress core itself.
Many plugins (and indeed themes) such as ours quite reasonably expect this object to be accessible for a certain period of time during a request. Wiping it as DirectoryPress is doing (even though they do restore it later) unfortunately has some knock-on effects here and that’s what you are experiencing.
We can’t really think of any good reasons as to why they need to do things this way and so we don’t really see this as being a problem with our plugin. So, in this instance, I’m afraid the best I can do is recommend you make use of DirectoryPress’s support channels and see if there’s anything they can offer up here.
I don’t want to sound like we’re slamming the door in your face on this one, so if you are unhappy with this and have some valid points to the contrary we’re definitely willing to listen.
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