Genesis Responsive Slider doesn’t pull from ‘featured’ category

[Marc]

I work with the Genesis Responsive Slider to feature selected events on the home page, using the event’s featured image. This worked perfectly in 2.x

In the slider settings, I can select to pull from the post type ‘tribe_events’ and then pull from say a category ‘featured’

Now, in 3.x it works fine with events that are happening within the current month. But if I have a featured event that is happening next month, the event does not get pulled in the slider. This was not an issue before.

Sample: ATXclassical.org

[Marc]

On a related note, when I click on a tag, the tag page (e.g. http://atxclassical.org/events/tag/StephenMills/) does not list any events, unless they’re in the current month (e.g. http://atxclassical.org/events/tag/contemporary/)

The first example should display three events in September…

[Marc]

I see the issue now with the tag archive page. It’s not based on current month. On the event page (single-event), a tag with a space (e.g. ‘Stephen Mills’) gets translated into a URL with the space removed (e.g. http://atxclassical.org/events/tag/StephenMills/), where it should get translated into a URL with a dash (e.g. http://atxclassical.org/events/tag/Stephen-Mills/).

This is a bug that needs a fix.

But I still would also like insights into what changed with the slider. Only current month events get pulled into the slider, whereas before any event in the category ‘featured’ would get pulled, as long as the event hadn’t passed. If this is a custom fix I need to do, that’s fine, but I’d love some direction.

[Jonah]

Hi Marc,

Can you provide some code examples of what you have setup in order for events to show up in the slider? Please post them to http://snippi.com/ – things may have worked in 2.x but 3.x is a completely reengineered plugin so your customization might need to be modified and since this is something separate from our plugin there might not be too much we can do for you but I’ll do my best with what I can tell from the code you can provide me.

By default our plugin does not include support for tag archives. This is something you would need to configure and get working on your own. If you can provide some samples of code you are working with in order to get this working I’ll see what I can do but no guarantees.

Thanks,
Jonah

[Marc]

Thanks, Jonah. I did no customizations in order to set up the slider properly. The slider has a settings page where you can select the post type to pull from and the category or tag to pull from for each post type. Here is the slider plugin I used: http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-responsive-slider/

The difference between 2.x and 3.x:
* In 2.x when an event expired, it would not display it in the slider. In 3.x expired events display in the slider if they are in the current month.
* In 2.x upcoming events from upcoming months would display as long as they were in the selected category. In 3.x events from the selected category only display from the current month.

[Marc]

On the tags… I’m not asking for any kind of customization. You enabled tags for events, so I assume you want it to work…

I have limited knowledge, but from what I understand, is that the output of the tag slug in the meta boxes of the single-event view is incorrect. Perhaps you’re calling the tag name for the link instead of the tag slug?

Maybe found something in here? http://docs.tri.be/Events-Calendar/source-function-tribe_meta_event_tags.html#293-315

Look at this page: http://atxclassical.org/event/ballet-austin-a-midsummer-nights-dream-friday/

Ballet Austin should have an output as ballet-austin for the slug, not BalletAustin, and Stephen Mills should have an output as stephen-mills for the slug, not StephenMills.

Again, this is not a customization, but it is now part of the core plugin, since you enabled tags. I’m not asking about the tag archive pages here, I’m asking about a bug in the output of the tag slug on the single event pages’ meta boxes.

[Jonah]

Hi Marc,

Ok, there’s some adjustments that need to be made in any instance where you are running a custom query for events. Basically all you need to do is add an ‘eventDisplay’ argument with a value of ‘custom’. In this case you can filter the query_args for the slider plugin with this: https://gist.github.com/jo-snips/6011753 – add that to your theme’s functions.php file and that should get things working for you again. Let me know if not.

On the tags issue, I apologize because I was not aware that tag support was there now. But I’m still unable to recreate this issue. I tried things with a tag with spaces too. Have you tried clearing permalinks by visiting Settings > Permalinks to see if this fixes things?

Regards,
Jonah

[Marc]

Thanks, Jonah! I really appreciate the help there. It works slightly different from the 2.x versions (it pulls all events in the featured category, including expired events), but I actually like this better. Thanks again for the help.

Secondly, I cleared the permalinks, but that didn’t seem to correct the tag issue. Interestingly, I don’t have this issue with regular post types. Is there anything specifically you need to know to further investigate this issue?

[Jonah]

Hi Marc,

Great, glad that works for you!

On the tagging issue, where are you clicking on these tags from?

– Jonah

[Marc]

Hi Jonah,

Here’s a sample: http://atxclassical.org/event/ballet-austin-a-midsummer-nights-dream-friday/

In the event details, under ‘Event tags:’ when I click Ballet Austin, the URL is http://atxclassical.org/events/tag/BalletAustin/ where the URL should be http://atxclassical.org/events/tag/ballet-austin/

Is it maybe something in the tribe_meta_event_tags function?

[Jonah]

Hi Marc,

Ok I see it now. I’ve logged this as a ticket and we’ll get to it ASAP. For now I suggest just not using tags with spaces in them.

Regards,
Jonah

[Marc]

The tag issue got fixed with 3.0.2.

Both questions are now answered, thanks!

[Jonah]

Glad to hear it Mark, I’m going to close this thread out then but please let us know if you need anything else.

– Jonah

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