Events URL defaulting to most recently posted

[Jeremy]

Hi Sandra,

This is a little bit weird. Could you send me your theme via a zip file, so that I could try to reproduce your problem and understand what’s happening?

On the calendar page you can see from your back-office, how did you display the calendar? Using a shortcode? Which one?

Thanks in advance,
Jeremy

[calendar12345]

Hi Jeremy,
Our theme is this standard one…
the7dtchildVersion: 1.0.0
on the settings for the calendar, there is a blank for events URL slug and single events URL slug. They both say calendar currently. Is that right? Before, the second one said calendars (plural) which may have been the reason we suddenly had two calendars. Not sure. But I changed it so they are both the same now.
Anyway, now if you click on something in the calendar, it just takes you to a calendar page with another link to the actual website page for that event. Which isn’t a disaster as before, when everything was linking to the wrong event. Can you go and have a look to understand what I mean?
The ideal would be for every event to link directly to the actual event page.
Also, there are two ways to add a URL to an events listing…right at the top of the page where it says add media (typing it out and then making it a link) or down towards the bottom of the page where it says, under Event WEbsite, URL  (example.com). Is there a difference between these two options? It seems when I use the lower one, it starts to link every event to the most recently posted.
Thanks! Your challenge here is dealing with a virtual novice…
xx Sandra

[Jeremy]

Hi Sandra,

Thank you for those clarification 🙂

And don’t worry about being a “virtual novice” — we are here to help!

Regarding the slugs, they shouldn’t have the same:

Events URL slug: Determines where on the frontend your events will live; defaults to /events but can be changed to whatever you see fit. The link that appears below the field will take you directly to your events page.

Single event URL slug: Similar to the Events URL slug, this determines the URL structure for a single event. Note that while you want this to be similar to the Events URL slug, they cannot be identical — notice how if the Events URL slug defaults to plural “events”, the Single Event URL Slug has to be singular “event.” Keep this in mind as you make changes.

To add a URL to an event listing, the most appropriate way is to use the Events Website URL field. You may also link a media to an external URL, but it would be clearer for your users to just click on the link they will see.

Back to your initial problem, it really seems like there’s something wrong with your theme. Can you make sure your parent theme (must be The7) is up-to-date? According to its website, it should be version v.6.9.2 now.

Apparently, The7 theme is meant to be compatible with our plugins. Did you contact their support as well? (if you bought the theme via Theme Forest, you may reach the support here: https://themeforest.net/item/the7-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/5556590/support).

Please let me know how it goes.

Cheers,
Jeremy

[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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