New version of Event Calendar conflicts with Mappress Google maps plugin.

[karen]

The latest version of Events Calendar essentially disables Mappress Google Maps plugin. I have tried to turn off maps in the events to see if that helped. It did not. does this use a new version of JS or AJAX that the Mappress dev should be aware of or is it a bug of some sort. In Mappress, I can choose which post types to select. and neither Events or venues is selected.
Please advise.

[George]

Hey @karen,

I’m really sorry to hear about this conflict on your site! There are indeed JS and AJAX updates in our last few plugin updates but there isn’t anything in theory that would so sharply conflict with other code on a site…I’m curious, did things work fine in previous versions of The Events Calendar/Events Calendar Pro? If so, what was the last version you remember things working well in?

If you’re curious about learning more about the specifics of the conflict, I’d recommend seeing if any errors pop up on your site if you head to your site’s wp-config.php file and change this line of code:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

to this:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

That will display PHP errors if any exist, which might be quite useful here.

Thank you, and sorry again for this trouble on your site.

— George

[karen]

HI George,
I have reverted to the previous version which works fine. I think it is 3.11.1.
IF I enable Debugging, who sees it?
thanks.

[George]

Hey Karen,

Enabling Debug will print errors on the front-end of your site, which is a bit ugly admittedly! However, you only have to enable it for a second and then just copy any errors that pop up. Then you can paste them in a response here or in something like a Gist at http://gist.github.com – once the errors are saved or shared somewhere, you can disable the Debug code immediately on your site by setting it back to “false” like this:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);


I hope that helps! 🙂

[karen]

I found nothing in the debug errors that would indicate a problem with events or mappress. I did notice that the problem did not occur with the free version, just when I activated PRO. It is not the widget that I use as a sidebar, as I removed the widget and the anomaly still occurs. I have contacted the developer of mappress but I have not changed it recently.
thanks

[George]

Thanks for trying that out @karen, and for reporting back on your findings…I’m not sure what specific change in 3.12 of Events Calendar Pro would cause these problems, but one thing worth noting is that we have a maintenance release coming out this week that will include numerous bug fixes in 3.12 and such – it may make a difference with the issues on your site.

I’m not sure of that and therefore can’t promise it, but I’m just curious, would you be interested in putting this issue “on hold” until the update arrives? It should arrive before the end of this week – then if issues still persist we can resume troubleshooting from there.

Let me know what you think about this!

Thanks,
George

[karen]

That is fine George. Although I like the new features a lot, I can wait. It is not live on my site yet.

[George]

Sounds good @karen – I really appreciate your patience here! Stay tuned for the Maintenance Release, it might help and will be a better place to troubleshoot further from regardless (even if it doesn’t fix things right away).

Cheers!

[karen]

Hey George,
Problem solved.
Either the new update fixed it or a fresh install did.
Thanks!

[George]

Awesome! Thanks for the update @karen 🙂

Best of luck with your site,
George

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