Organizer is required and Organizer Email is required error

[George]

Tom,

I understand your frustrations and we are trying to figure out the issue here.

I cannot reproduce it thus far, but the only reason I ever mention that is because it’s the reason I then ask you to do troubleshooting steps–if I could reproduce the problem, I would do the troubleshooting steps myself.

Next, it’s worth noting this fact because it points to a unique issue specific to your site, like for example that you might have custom coding on your site or other code that is conflicting with things.

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To that end, Tom, now that you’ve updated to 4.2, can you please confirm if you have any “require Community fields” snippets at all on your site? If so, please remove these snippets completely for now and see if anything improves.

Thank you for your patience here, Tom.

Sincerely,
George

[Tom]

Thanks Ryan, I have been away for a couple of days on business but will now try again to remove all required filters from that snippet. As far as I can remember I do not have any other code that looks for organizer email, which is the strange thing about this, but I will do some more work on it today.

A week has past and I now have a queue of unhappy event organisers, so as a last resort I think I may have to completely remove all Events Calendar software and start from scratch with a complete re-install – presuming that the existing event data will not be removed with it.

[George]

Hey Tom,

Thank you for the update. Please do let us know what you find once you remove any “require Community fields” snippets on your site—I will try to recommend further steps from there, and hopefully save you the effort of doing a complete re-installation of things.

Sincerely,
George

[Tom]

George,

I think I’ve tracked this down to an extra filter in the functions.php code that I did not know was there (I did not set the events system up originally. There was an additional function

if ( empty( $_POST[‘organizer’][‘Email’] ) )
$fields[] = ‘Organizer Email’;

Below the ‘standard’ required function, and when I commented this out it seems to be working – will know for certain once my users try adding their events. I guess the question that remains is when it will be safe to make organizer required again…

[George]

Hey @Tom,

Thanks for sharing this update! I wanted to update you that I think I have a code snippet for you here that will do the job of requiring an organizer and organizer email.

You can find the PHP for this snippet in this Gist ? https://git.io/vo65f

Copy and paste that into your theme’s functions.php file, and let me know if this helps! (And please note that you can omit the opening <?php tag seen in the Gist.)

Cheers!
George

[Tom]

George,

Thank you – I wil try that.

[George]

Excellent—let us know if it helps at all!

— George

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