Events Calendar Shortcode

[Brandon]

Hi,

Currently I have my homepage setup to pull in a list of events. That part seems to be working just fine. What is not working is when I try and single out a specific tag to pull in to that area, it is still just pulling it in chronologically instead of the selected events that I have tagged ‘featured’.

Here is the code that I am using to pull in said events into my homepage.
<?php echo do_shortcode(“[tribe_events_list limit=5 tag=featured]”); ?>

It is recognizing the limit=5 filter but isn’t recognizing the tag=featured. I even tried putting it on a standard page, placing it in the content box using [tribe_events_list tag=”featured”] and that didn’t seem to work either.

The same thing is actually happening on one of the other pages of the site. http://donelson.org/ministries/kids/
I am wanting to only pull in a specific category but it is completely ignoring the filter to only pull the kids category
Here is the shortcode that I am using to pull in those events on that page. [tribe_events_list category=”kids”]

Any help would be appreciated.

[George]

I’m sorry to hear about this, @Brandon. I do not have the issues you describe here, so I’m wondering—does anything improve if you deactivate ALL plugins on your site except for ONLY the The Events Calendar and official add-ons? This means only these specific plugins should be active on your site:
• The Events Calendar
• Events Calendar Pro
• Filter Bar
• Importer

I see you have an “events calendar shortcode” plugin, which we do not make. Please be sure to deactivate this, and all other plugins that are not the ones listed above.

1. In this state, how do things behave?

If issues persist and the filters don’t seem to work here, then how about if you leave your site in this state, and then also activate a default theme like Twenty Twelve or Twenty Sixteen?

2. In this state, how do things behave?

Let us know what you find!

George

[Brandon]

Thanks for the response George.

I took your advice and removed the events calendar shortcode plugin. Tested it and the problem still persists. I then proceeded to deactivate all of my plugins, minus the events calendar plugins…problem still persists. When I switched themes (twenty fifteen), the category sorting worked. So, with that said…do you have any thoughts on why the theme I am using would be causing conflicts with the functionality of the shortcode I am using?

Thanks!

[George]

Thank you for testing all of that, @Brandon!

I would definitely recommend reaching out to your theme developer’s support team for assistance with the theme from here, to try and get things work.

As to why it might be happening at all, issues like this usually arise from a theme’s code managing custom queries poorly, or interfering with the global $wp_query in some way. It can happen from within even very popular themes, and should be relatively easy for the theme developers to fix (dependent on the exact, specific cause of course).

Let me know if there is anything else I can try to help with!

Sincerely,
George

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