Problem when clicking any of the links – dates, or to advance to next month

[Dale Norenberg]

When clicking any of the links – dates, or to advance to next month – in the widget, nothing happens.

In another forum, you offered this information:

It looks like your theme does not output sidebar widget classes. Notice in the WordPress documentation that it recommends you output the following with your widgets ‘class=”widget %2$s”>’. The %2$s is particularly important, as many widgets, ours included, need those classes to work. Some themes however ignore the WP documentation, and thus cause problems like this.

You will need to contact your theme author about a fix, or if you are knowledgable about WP API fucntions like register_sidebar() you could probably do this fix yourself.

My first contact with the theme developer, I got this reply: Both classes are there, however I named-spaced the .widget class to avoid plugin conflicts of all things. Anyway I removed the name space – is it working ok now?

I checked and it was Not working on home page. http://www.dodgecountyfairgrounds.com
But now works on calendar page http://www.dodgecountyfairgrounds.com/events/

I contacted the theme developer and this is their second response: Both classes are present in the widget on those two pages you linked: .widget .tribe_mini_calendar_widget
So the suggestion you got from the plugin author isn’t causing the issue.

Can you please tell me how to make this work on the home page?

[Geoff]

Hi there, Dale! Nice to see you again and welcome back.

First off, thanks so much for looking into existing threads for answers! That’s awesome and I definitely appreciate it. 🙂

I’m not sure if it’s related, but I do see a Javascript conflict when inspecting the site on the homepage that is not there on the calendar page:

Uncaught Error: No images were supplied for Backstretch (jQuery.js:2)

Is it possible to resolve that error in the theme before we dig much deeper into this on the plugin side? It would seem that if the error is present on the homepage but not the calendar and the calendar does not have an issue, then fixing this would be a good place to start.

Let’s start there and see what we find.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Dale Norenberg]

Thanks, that worked. I see you have a new update to the plugin. If I update, will I have to worry about any of the changes that were made to resolve the problems I have submitted in the last month?

Rochelle

[Geoff]

Hi Dale,

Awesome, I’m so glad that helped resolve the conflict! Thanks for following up and confirming. 🙂

Good question about the update. You should be totally fine as long as your modifications were not applied to any core file in the plugin. In other words, if you modified any code directly in the plugin folder, then those will be overridden. However, if you made your customizations in the theme directory (i.e. in your functions.php file), then those are safe.

As always, I would suggest backing up all your files and your database when performing any updates on your site. That way you can easily roll back your changes, if needed.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread since it seems we’ve tackled the primary issue here, but please do feel free to start a new thread if any other questions pop up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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