Too many versions for WordPress, I think.

[Thomas]

Just downloaded ECP 2.0.4 as an upgrade to my installed Pro version 1.3.2., unzipped, copied the “events-calendar-pro.2.0.4” folder to the plugins folder and logged in to WordPress. Not sure it is there because there are now three plugin folders for EC (seen via FTP):
events-calendar-premium
events-calendar-pro.2.0.4
the-events-calendar
One of these is identified as “Events Calendar Pro v.1.3.2 Shane and Peter and is active and working properly.
However, there are only two instances of the calendar plugin visible in WordPress. What do I need to do to correctly upgrade?
Thanks

[Rob]

Hey Thomas. You definitely don’t want to have multiple versions active at once. To be fully functional here you should just have – from your plugins list – The Events Calendar 2.0.4 and Events Calendar PRO 2.0.4 active. You can have past versions, ie 1.3.x, present but deactivated without issue.

Does that help answer your question? Let me know if not and I can keep looking into this for you. Thanks!

[Thomas]

Rob, I think I got the upgrade all straightened out now on the install.

Implementation hasn’t been seamless, with several things I have to overcome. In order of priority, I need to address this issue first.

I am experiencing a problem with individual event views. Here’s an example: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/too-many-versions-for-wordpress-i-think/#post-16457

Notice the only info listed is “Start: [today’s date appears for all listings]”

Events in list view show all events accurately.

Thanks

TD

[Thomas]

Sorry, Rob, wrong link copied. Here’s the correct example link:

http://awanacanada.ca/event/grand-prix-open-event-toronto-and-central-ontario/

TD

[Rob]

Hey Thomas. Thanks for the link; I am seeing the issue and it definitely looks like something is up here. This has gotten a bit outside my area of expertise but I’ve asked our dev Jonah to take a look and see if he can offer up any suggestions. Stay tuned and my continued apologies for the inconvenience in the interim.

[Jonah]

Hi Thomas, it looks like you still have old versions of the plugin CSS and templates. Any of the pre 2.0 overrides you had done (CSS and template files in an ‘events’ folder in your theme) will need to be updated or you can just get rid of the overrides and this will allow the plugin to use all the new templates and CSS automatically. You might want to try that first as I’m sure it will resolve a lot of the styling issues you’re seeing. You can do this by simply renaming the ‘events’ folder to ‘events-old’ or something like that. And then you can go through piecemeal and bring back whatever customizations you had with the old CSS and templates.

I hope that helps but let me know if you have questions.

[Thomas]

Jonah, thanks for contributing!

Hope I can remember all that happened yesterday.

Started with Pro 1.3.2 installed and activated with everything looking fine.

Sent message and obtained link to 1.3.3; downloaded and installed
Loaded and activated TEC 2.0.4
Downloaded purchased Pro 2.0.4, loaded and activated

Viewed event listing entered under 1.3.2 … mess

This is where it gets murky (should have taken notes)
I believe after some unsuccessful experiments with the code, I deactivated and deleted TEC and Pro, reloaded and activated.
I believe I also deleted the “events” folder from Thesis 1.8.

Somewhere in all this I opened Permalinks and saved … twice.

I will rename “events” in the theme folder and see what happens.

[Rob]

Let us know how that goes, Thomas. Jonah can take another look if you’re still having issues from there.

[Thomas]

Rob and Jonah, Thanks for your interest in getting this resolved.

I noticed an “events.css” file in the theme root and deleted it.
There was also an “events-list-load-widget-display.php” file in the theme root folder. Deleted it.

Today I spent some time adding and editing the events data and didn’t seem to have any trouble there. It’s just the individual event view that’s a problem.

i.e. http://awanacanada.ca/event/awanagames-and-sparks-a-rama-national-capital-region/

Just the title and today’s date and no formatting.

The list view shows it all accurately: http://awanacanada.ca/events

If I were to deactivate and delete The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro, what considerations do I need to follow BEFORE I reinstall. Are there files on the server I should check for and delete FTP? AND, I do not want to lose data. (It IS backed up daily.)

[Thomas]

You can do this by simply renaming the ‘events’ folder to ‘events-old’ or something like that.

Tried this and the site went “unavailable” for about 30 minutes. Restored the events folder.

Here’s the folder content:
thesis_18/events/
events-list-load-widget-display.php
events.css
gridview-save.php
gridview.php
list.php
single-save.php
single.php

All dated March 12, 2012
events.css dated March 14, 2012

[Jonah]

Hi Thomas, any override files for our plugin (like from the list you posted above) should ONLY be in an ‘events’ folder in your active theme. Part of the problem I saw initially was that you had old override files from a previous version of our plugin which needed to be updated either completely or carefully finding exactly what changed and implementing those changes. gridview-save.php and single-save.php are not files our plugin will use but they shouldn’t cause a problem. Not sure why your site went unavailable for 30 minutes after renaming the folder. This sounds like some other issue…

If you want to completely remove the plugin just delete the ‘events’ folder in your theme, delete both plugin folders and delete all posts where the post type is ‘tribe_events’, ‘tribe_organizer’ and ‘tribe_venue’. Database is tricky though. There are lots of other places where event related data could be that would be difficult to tell you how to remove.

Does that help?

[Thomas]

Ahhh … progress.

Sometimes it’s the simplest things like not being logged in to the server through FTP AND logged into the site admin via WordPress at the same time. Deleted /events folder via FTP exited, entered site and events are displaying correctly, list and calendar view buttons are there, individual events show all correct info. The only anomaly now is the appearance of the sidebar at the bottom of each individual event listing. Not sure where that comes. Any ideas on that? Thanks!

[Jonah]

Hi Thomas, glad you got the first part figured out finally 🙂 On the sidebar you’ll either need to modify the single event template to remove the sidebar or hide it with CSS. If you’re using the “Default Events Template” in Settings > The Events Calendar you’ll want to look in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/ecp-single-template.php but if you’re using the “Default Page Template” you’ll want to look at your page.php to conditionally remove the sidebar on event only pages.

[Support Droid]

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