The Events Calendar Pro produces massive amount of empty pages

[Michael]

Hello EVP fans,

I am using EVP for a single WP site, just to host a few own events (2 right now).

Suddenly I recognised that EVP is spamming google with a massive amount of empty pages on venue basis.

In the meantime I completly deleted EVP and cleaned up the database but it is still going further.

I’ve researched this issue within the last few days but found nothing which is comparable just that it might something wrong with the rewrite rules.

Anyone out there who might be able to give me a hint?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers

Michael

[Geoff]

Hey Michael,

Thanks for writing in and welcome to the forums!

That is certainly odd. There is the possibility that our plugins will create archive pages where no events exist — for example, a Day View where there are no events scheduled for that particular day. However, those should return as soft 404s and I haven’t heard about empty pages based on venues before.

I’d be happy to look into this with you and see if we can any clues together.

First off, would you be willing to share your system information with me? You can find that on the Events> Help screen and can copy and paste it here for me as a private reply. That will allow me to see your plugin settings in order to match them on my own test site.

Second, will you please send me 2-3 samples of links that are being counted as empty pages? I’m curious to see those and, again, try to match them to my test site.

Third, it would be really helpful if, in the meantime, you test for conflicts by following the steps outlined in this guide. That will rule out the possibility that either the theme or another installed plugin is aiding the issue.

Let’s start there and see what we find. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Michael]

This reply is private.

[Geoff]

Hey Michael,

Thanks for the screenshot! That is really odd how the pages get archived like that.

I think it would be super helpful if we could see the system information. Since you’ve already deactivated the plugins, would you be willing to set up a test site where we can work on this together?

If you are (and that would be great!), then here are some steps to follow that will help with testing:

• Don’t install anything except The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO
• Please also stick to a default theme — again, there’s no need to install anything else just yet!
• Create a few events so we have some test data to work with
• Can you replicate the same problem?

If you find you can replicate the problem under these conditions it would be awesome if you could stop and let us know so we can take a look while the site is still running under default conditions.

Thanks for your help while we work on this together!

Geoff

 

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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