Recurring events displaying in blocks

[Keith]

Hi! We’re really liking the calendar plugin so far, but we ran into a weird issue with recurring events. They all seem to display in one long block, so that other events that take place in the same date range get displayed AFTER the block of recurring events.

So for example, in the URL provided there is a huge number of All Church Prayer Meeting events that starts in July 2016 and ends in January 2017. The events list will show ALL of the All Church Prayer Meeting events through January 2017 and then go back to showing other events in July 2016.

So it displays kinda like this:

July 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
August 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
September 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
October 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
November 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
December 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
January 2017 – All Church Prayer Meeting
July 2016 – Celebrate Recovery

Is there a way to make sure all the events are strictly shown by date? So we want it like this:

July 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
July 2016 – Celebrate Recovery
August 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
August 2016 – Celebrate Recovery
September 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
October 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
November 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
November 2016 – Celebrate Recovery
December 2016 – All Church Prayer Meeting
January 2017 – All Church Prayer Meeting

Sorry if that doesn’t make sense – just go to the site and look at the order that events are displayed in the list if you don’t understand.

Thanks,
Josh

[Cliff]

Thanks for the info, Josh.

Could you please provide annotated screenshots + links to view each screenshot so I can better understand what you’re seeing?

[Keith]

Sure thing! Here’s a shot of page 6, which is where the huge block of the recurring event ends. Before this page there are several pages of ONLY the All Church Prayer Meeting, going through the months, not showing in of the other events that also take place in those months.

[Keith]

Here’s a link to that page: http://hillside.harbrdev.net/events/list/?tribe_paged=6&tribe_event_display=list

[Cliff]

That screenshot helped a lot, especially since it’s not a known issue at this point.

There might be some new updates available. Could you please make sure all your Modern Tribe plugins (and WordPress core) are at their latest versions?

• Downloads / Version Numbers
• TEC Automatic Updates
• or TEC Manual Updates
• WordPress core updates

Once you verify you’re on the latest versions, please test to see if the issue is still happening for you.

If it is, please follow our Testing for Conflicts Guide (basically switch to TwentySixteen theme and deactivate all plugins and custom code other than Modern Tribe plugins) and see if that helps narrow down the cause of this.

If it doesn’t, please enable WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG and share any PHP errors you see while changing tickets quantity, navigating your site’s home page, events page, single-event pages, and any other of your site’s pages relevant to this ticket.

Then, please share your System Information (while in Testing for Conflicts mode).

You might also see if you can spot any console errors at your site. (If needed, you may reference our KB article Using Google Chrome Developer Tools.)

Let us know what you find out.

Thanks.

[Keith]

Okay, checking for plugin conflicts helped us figure it out. Apparently there was a conflict with this plugin: http://www.nsp-code.com/wordpress-plugins/post-types-order/, which allows drag and drop re-ordering of posts. We’ve deactivated the plugin for now and are just changing time stamps around to reorder posts, but it would great to find a way to get these plugins to play well together as we love both of them.

Any ideas as to how that might be possible?

Thanks again for your help.

– Josh

[Cliff]

Excellent find. Thanks for going through those steps!

I have personally heard of several people discovering this plugin as a conflict, but I don’t know how/why it is conflicting and since its purpose is to reorder the order of posts, I’d guess it’s not something we will account for in our code.

My best guess as to the cause, if you want to report it to the developer, is that a recurrence series is made up of one top-level “tribe_events” post and all the auto-created occurrences in the series are children to the parent post. Therefore, if the reordering plugin pulls in just one of the say 5 posts within the series (most likely the parent post), it actually pulls all 5 (parent + its children).

I’m not sure if that plugin supports nested pages. If it does, their code/logic for pages might be able to be applied to custom post types as well.

I hope this helps!

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