Events Will Not Display on Calendar

[wellesleydems]

Hello:

I am currently running the Campaign theme on up-to-date versions of WordPress and The Events Calendar PRO. Some time ago (haven’t had time to set up a Modern Tribe account and post until now), events on The Events Calendar stopped displaying. I can still create new events, edit old ones, etc.; however, I cannot get them to display so the public can see them! This has been frustrating. For an example of the problem, scroll over June 26th, 2014 on the calendar on my site. You will see a box that pops up with details about the event, but no event is actually displayed on the date. You can only see this information when you scroll over it, and even then, there is nothing to click on to bring you to the full event page. Additionally, the search function does not work for users.

To remedy this, I have deactivated all other plugins to check for a conflict and then reverted to the 2011 WP theme (keeping the other plugins active) – both to no avail. I also searched on the forum for a similar problem (didn’t see any, but please point me in the right direction if I missed one). Any assistance here would be helpful. The Events Calendar is a versatile plugin that has been helpful for me, but it is ineffective if it doesn’t actually display the events my organization is putting together.

Thank you for your help,
Michael

[Geoff]

Hi Michael, thanks for getting in touch! Sorry you’re hitting some issues with the display, but let’s see if we can tackle it here together. 🙂

It looks like the titles are set to display: none in your theme’s stylesheets (style.css):

.events-archive .entry-title {
  display: none;
}

Are you able to remove that from the stylesheet? Give that a shot and let me know if that clears it up.

Cheers!
Geoff

[wellesleydems]

Geoff,

Thanks for your prompt reply. Some success here! Now events are displayed, but the color of the text is much duller than it used to be. Is there a reason for this? If you’re scrolling quickly through months, you could miss events.

There are also two other problems (which were issues before, but just not as pressing):
1) When users scroll back through months on the calendar, the ability to scroll forward has disappeared when users view July and August, 2014. In other words, there is a link at the bottom-left of the calendar to scroll back, but no link at the bottom-right to scroll forward during these months.
2. When you click on an event and go to its detailed page, the page bleeds into the sidebar and none of the sidebar widgets display. This has been an issue since I first installed the calendar. Can it be fixed?

I appreciate your help on this. Any idea of why this problem came about in the first place? I’ve never edited the stylesheet before.

– Michael

[Geoff]

Awesome! I’m so glad the CSS update cleared it up.

I’m not sure how the style was changed. The plugin uses its own stylesheets, so I’m assuming someone other than you (maybe an outside developer?) made the change since it was in the theme’s master stylesheet. I noticed there were several custom calendar styles in there under a section called “The Events Calendar.” If you’re seeing more issues like this, I’d start by removing or masking those styles to see if that clears things up.

Yes, the color for past events is duller than the color for upcoming events. That’s intended behavior, but can certainly be overridden in the CSS. Also, for future reference, check out our Themer’s Guide which has a section on customizing styles.

I definitely want to look into the other two items you mention, but would you mind creating a new thread for them so we can address them there? I have a hunch that they are related to other customizations and conflicts with the theme you’re using. Before opening the new thread, please try activating the default WordPress Twenty Thirteen theme to see if the issues are still there.

Does this help answer your original question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[wellesleydems]

Geoff,

Good to know. It makes sense that the colors would change in that way! I’ll make another post about 2).

In the interim, 1) seems to have fixed itself. When I first got on the site this morning, though, the events had disappeared again! I then deleted the entire section called “The Events Calendar” in the master stylesheet, saved the changes, and then reinserted the exact same section I just deleted – and the events came back. Very odd. I do not know why that section exists in the master stylesheet (I assumed that was part of the plugin), as I have never edited the master CSS before and I am the only one with access to the site.

At any rate, thank you again for your help – it’s appreciated.

– Michael

[wellesleydems]

Also, as a follow-up for future users, “display: none;” was also listed under .tribe_events – I had to remove it from there, too, so the events displayed on the calendar:

.tribe_events .navlink {
display: none;
}

– Michael

[Geoff]

Thanks for the follow-up, Michael! I’m so glad we were able to work on the CSS portion of this together and now we’ll get on to the thread about the the events disappearing.

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