Map & List view not working

[ausagventures]

I am reposting this in a new discussion thread as requested by Modern Tribe staff.

I’m rebuilding my website at http://www.develop.ausagventures.com and once everything is perfect and ready to go then that website will be replacing the current http://www.ausagventures.com

I’m having some issues with the calendar- do you want me to change my licence key over to http://www.develop.ausagventures.com and all that jazz before you can respond to my question?

Basically what it is is that when you go to http://develop.ausagventures.com/events/ everything is dandy because the default view is month

When you click on “map view” it comes up with nothing on the map and the URL changes to

http://develop.ausagventures.com/events/map/?action=tribe_geosearch&tribe-bar-date=Date&tribe-bar-search=Search&tribe-bar-geoloc=Location

and nothing shows on the map and the message below is

“No results were found for events in or near “Location”.”

But if I manually change the URL to http://develop.ausagventures.com/events/map/ it works beautifully

What’s the go with the URL being all funky? I’ve checked that all settings are the same as on the current live website http://www.ausagventures.com and I just need to resolve this before I can delete that website and replace it with this one.

I’m having the same issue with the list view as well.

Cheers

[Barry]

The first thing to check is if your theme or another plugin is using a placeholder polyfill: can you try deactivating all other plugins and switching to a default, unmodified theme such as Twenty Twelve: do you still see the same problem?

If you do not, try reactivating everything one-at-a-time until you find the culprit.

I’m having some issues with the calendar- do you want me to change my licence key over to http://www.develop.ausagventures.com and all that jazz before you can respond to my question?

No, it’s clearly their as a development site so I’d say let’s leave things as they are for the time being.

Does that help?

[ausagventures]

I was a bit nervous about deactivating all of my plugins, so I set up another test website and only installed the theme and the events calendar/pro and I’m having the same issue so I’m guessing it doesn’t sit well with the theme?

How do we fix this? The theme is Flat by Themify.

[Barry]

So is it definitely the theme? That is, do you find it works well with a default theme like Twenty Twelve?

[ausagventures]

Yep I forgot to try that so did just then, works as it should with 2012 🙁

[Barry]

Hmm, ok.

I feel pretty confident that they must be using some sort of polyfill technique here and its going awry for whatever reason. Basically:

• To guide people as to what each field in the Tribe bar does we use some placeholder text like “Search” and “Location”
• These are, however, just placeholders and that text shouldn’t be submitted (ordinarily it can’t be/will not be anyway – as you’ve seen when you switch to a different theme)
• I wonder though if your theme ships with a script that essentially takes the placeholder text and sets it up as the actual field value (sometimes this is done for cross-browser compatibility reasons and, if so, they would also take care of removing the field values before submission … but I’m wondering if that is failing here)

Is that a possibility that you could take to Themify’s support team – and perhaps ask if they do bundle such a script like I have described if there is a means of selectively disabling it (on event views, for instance). On our end, we have functions such as tribe_is_event_query() that can be helpful when detecting if a request relates to an event page.

It could be I am off-course with this theory, but even if Themify can ‘debunk’ it that could be useful information here.

Does that help?

[ausagventures]

I will copy and paste this into a thread with them and let you know how I get on 🙂 Thanks so much!

[Barry]

No problem at all – let us know how it goes!

[ausagventures]

Hey Barry,

Turns out you are correct! This was their response

“Hi Stephanie,

As a matter of fact we do use such a script. Please try this, first create a file named “custom-functions.php” in your theme’s root directory and then add this bit:
<?php

function custom_theme_enqueue_scripts() {
wp_dequeue_script( ‘theme-script’ );
wp_enqueue_script( ‘theme-script’, THEME_URI . ‘/js/themify.custom.script.js’, array(‘jquery’), false, true );
}
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘custom_theme_enqueue_scripts’, 12 );
Now make a duplicate of js/themify.script.js file and rename it to: themify.custom.script.js and open it up. Find:
// HTML5 placeholder fallback
Remove every line after wards until you reach the comment block for the next script which is highlighted as:
// Scroll to top

Hope this helps ;)”

So now I just need to hire a tech to do that for me (my CSS is as advanced as changing font colour and size) and then it should be happy days!

Cheers!!!!

[Barry]

(Closing this out!)

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