Fast Forwarding Widget removes event list

[frankorlando]

Hi there,
I used the php code on your tutorials page to fast forward the widget to display upcoming events when there are no events for the current month, which works. However, now in order to view the list beneath the mini calender, you must click forward and back through the months; i.e: upon loading page you see only mini calender, not the list of events. But when you click forward a month, and then back again, the events list shows up again.

[Kelly]

Hi, frankorlando. Thanks for getting in touch with your question! 🙂

I’m afraid I’m still a little fuzzy on the precise nature of your issue. It might help if you would post a link to the site where the widget is so that we can see it in action.

Thanks!

[frankorlando]

Sorry the site is not yet live, as we are currently building it on a local server. Perhaps I can give screenshots and try to explain a little more clearly what the problem is.
http://postimg.org/image/nv2iojegt/
The photo above is a screenshot of the same widget in three states:
The first is the widget as it appears on initially visiting the page. It automatically rolls forward from the current month to the first month with events- in this case January. The events still show up on the mini calendar itself, but the list view does not appear.
The second image, we have clicked the forward button on the mini calendar and brought it to February, which has no events.
The third image, we have clicked the previous arrow on the month selector bar and come back to January…and now suddenly the events are listed.

I think the problem may lie in the fact that I used the code from your tutorial here: https://theeventscalendar.com/fast-forward-to-the-next-upcoming-event/
It seems to me that the query for the event listing is happening before the roll forward for January, and is therefore finding no events for the month of December (current month), despite the code being in functions.php in the theme. Do you have any suggestions?

[frankorlando]

To clarify:
December: no events
January: 6 events
February: no events

The calender widget rolls forward to January, but the list part of the widget seems to still be querying December.

[Barry]

You’re right – that tutorial needs to be updated to make it gel with the latest releases. Sorry for any inconvenience – we’ll certainly update it as quickly as we can.

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