Month Display shows bullets instead of event names

[Alan]

I tried to fix the issue today by trying as many combinations as possible. Here’s some things that you might find interesting.

First I saw there was a new update to the pro plugin. So I tried to update from 4.2.4 to 4.2.5 It took a really long time and then is gave me a update failed error message and a really long explanation as to why short error messages are ignored etc. But when I refreshed the dashboard it appeared that the update worked and listed 4.2.5 as the version number. However, the only calendar view that would work was list view. Everything else gave an error message like page not found or something similar.

So I deactivated the pro plugin and the calendar seemed to work in all views including the month view.

I then reactivated the pro plugin and it still seems to be working.

I noted that the regular plugin is 4.2.3 and the pro is 4.2.5.

Also as I reactivated all the other plugins one at a time the calendar month view started showing dots when the W3 Total cache plugin was activated. I verified this by deactivating it.

I’m now wondering if the W3 total cache plugin is trying to minify something in the calendar plugin that is already minified????? Maybe there is a way to list events calendar as an exception not to minify???

I’d appreaciate it if you could check on this. When you’re done with the login I will remove it from the user list.

[Alan]

If I completely disable minify in w3 total cache the calendar month view is not the responsive bullet view.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Alan,

First I want to congratulate you on all your awesome efforts.

I sincerely believe that you are on to something.

But before that, I would strongly advice you to upgrade our regular plugin to 4.2.6 which is it’s latest version.

If I completely disable minify in w3 total cache the calendar month view is not the responsive bullet view.

I am pretty sure that this might be the issue.
Especially if you are already caching the month view under Events -> Settings -> Display

In any case, if playing with that setting does not help, I am pretty sure you could keep W3TC minification on with some exception for our plugins.

Let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

[Alan]

Is there a reason the standard plugin doesn’t show an update is available in wp?

Do you know how to add w3tc js exception for the events calendar? I believe it is minify js manual mode and then I have to list the events calendar js pages?????

[Alan]

Found this at W3TC
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-and-wp-events-calendar-incompatibility/

But it is old. I tried the combine only setting but it didn’t work and caused the month view to appear as large dots.

[Alan]

Also trying the settings found here:

Tips: WordPress Total Cache with The Event Calendar

And we now have a winner! Please post and share these settings for all W3TC and Events Calendar users!!!

• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by Alan.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Alan,

Thank you for writing back.

Is there a reason the standard plugin doesn’t show an update is available in wp?

That’s a great question. I am not so sure why that would be the case.
I know that WordPress.org has been doing some revamping behind the scenes lately.

Worst case scenario, you could simply uninstall and re-download or do a manual update.

To stay on the cautious side of things I always do a database backup before, but it should be hassle-free.

Do you know how to add w3tc js exception for the events calendar? I believe it is minify js manual mode and then I have to list the events calendar js pages?????

Actually you found the answer! Kudos on that, this is awesome.

Thank you for sharing for everybody’s benefit.

Is there anything else I can help you with on this topic ?

Best regards,

Geoff B.

 

[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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