Recurring event all occurrences link issue for Events Calendar Pro 3.11.1

[SiteCrafting]

Hi again!

Our QA Engineer has identified what appears to be another issue with the Events Calendar Pro 3.11.1 plugin. This one has to do with using the tribe_all_occurences_link function.

Synopsis:
We’re using Events Calendar data to output events on non-ECP template pages. When the event being output is recurring, we get the all occurrences link instead of the direct event link. What’s happening is when two events have the exact same recurrence settings (i.e. Daily recurrence until 8/31), the first instance of one of these recurring events is pulling the other event’s all occurrences link. After this, everything works as expected.

I’ve been able to reproduce this in a completely clean install of WordPress running the TwentyFifteen theme and ECP v3.11.1. Here’s a simple example test page template which will hopefully help illustrate the issue:

<?php
/* Template Name: Event Test Template */
$arrEvents = tribe_get_events();
?>

<?php foreach($arrEvents as $objEvent): ?>
<div class="post-<?php echo $objEvent->ID ?>">
    <p>Event Name: <?php echo $objEvent->post_title ?></p>
    <p>Is Recurring Event: <?php echo tribe_is_recurring_event($objEvent->ID) ?></p>
    <p>Event All Link: <?php echo tribe_all_occurences_link($objEvent->ID, false) ?></p>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Try creating two recurring events with the same recurrence settings and create a page using this template to see what I’m talking about. The test events I created the recurrence with also happened to start and end on the same date/times if that makes a difference.

Thanks!

P.S. You guys don’t have a bug bounty program, do you? :p

[George]

Hey @sitecrafting,

We unfortunately do not have a bug bounty program at this time, but you’re giving us good cause to consider adding one! 😀

Like your last report, this is much appreciated and I have made a ticket in our bug tracker for us to take a look at this and issue a fix if we confirm the bug. The timing is a bit unfortunate since a few of our development team, and our support team (including myself) will be out of town for some parts of this week – but that does not mean that the bug is taking a back seat in terms of importance.

We’ll get eyes on this as soon as possible and hopefully roll out a fix in the next or the next-next release if all goes well.

Stay tuned! And seriously: thank you 🙂

Cheers,
George

[SiteCrafting]

Thanks for the update! What does your release cycle look like? I’m just curious how long it might be before this issue gets addressed. The last one can at least be worked around for the time-being. But this one is fairly significant, and I don’t see a simple workaround.

[George]

We’re hoping to publish our next release by early September, though I unfortunately don’t have more detail than that 🙁 I’m not withholding information! I just genuinely cannot guarantee a specific date when the release will arrive.

I’m really sorry about this bug, and agree with you that it’s a pretty important one. I hope we can get a fix in for the next release, if not then hopefully the next one which should be no more than a few weeks after that.

— George

[corey hammond]

I too have this issue, so interested to hear the resolution.

Thanks!!

[George]

Hey @Corey,

Unfortunately, what I wrote above is still where things stand:

We’re hoping to publish our next release by early September, though I unfortunately don’t have more detail than that 🙁 I’m not withholding information! I just genuinely cannot guarantee a specific date when the release will arrive.

I’m really sorry about this bug, and agree with you that it’s a pretty important one. I hope we can get a fix in for the next release, if not then hopefully the next one which should be no more than a few weeks after that.

Stay tuned folks! We’re working on this one! 🙂

— George

[Leah]

Hi there,

I wanted to report back to you on the status of this issue. Your report is tracked in our internal system and a fix is on our to-do list, but we were not able to fit it into our upcoming 3.12 release. Please know that the issue is still very much on our radar and we will be working on it for a future release. We appreciate your patience while we work to improve our plugins. Thank you for using The Events Calendar!

Best,
Leah
and The Events Calendar team

[George]

😀

[Geoff]

Howdy @Sitecrafting!

Just want to let you know that we just shipped an update and a patch for this issue was included. Please update and feel free to drop us a new note if you continue to bump into any issues with this. We appreciate your patience while we worked on this–thanks for your support!

Cheers,
Geoff

[George]

Woot, thanks for the update Geoff – give the update a try, @Sitecrafting, I hope it helps! 🙂

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