Unable to edit recurring events after WP 3.5 update; hotfix installed

[Jen]

Since the WP 3.5 update, I’ve been unable to edit recurrences of events. Upon saving the change to a recurrence, I am no longer presented with the option to modify the single event or all events. What it does instead is to take that recurrence and to make it the base for the recurrence rules for all dates.

For example, I have an event on February 23 and 24. I went to edit a detail on the 24th, and now my event is appearing instead on the 24th and 25th, with all details for both dates matching my update for the 24th. The 23rd is gone entirely.

I have installed the hotfix for EC Pro 2.0.10, but it did not solve my problem.

[Jonah]

Hi Jen,

Sorry to hear about this. Have you tried deactivating all other plugins and/or reverting to the Twenty Eleven/Twelve theme to rule out a conflict? Please let me know.

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jen]

I can’t do that on my live site, and I don’t currently have a development installation. I have not been updating plugins lately, though, because EC conflicts with recent updates to Yoast and WPML so I’m running old versions of everything else to keep EC working.

[Jonah]

Hi Jen,

It looks like we may have a bug as I’m seeing it on my end too in WP 3.5. I’m creating a high priority ticket for one of our devs to take a look ASAP. If you need the recurrence functionality now and can revert to WP 3.4.2 I would suggest doing that until we come up with a fix. Stay tuned.

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jen]

Standing by! Thanks for looking into it!

[Jonah]

Hi Jen,

Ok I have a patch for you to try replacing /wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/resources/events-admin.js with this copy: http://cl.ly/code/1v382M03033d

Make sure you clear your browser cache and logout/log back into WordPress before trying it out again.

Let me know how that goes.

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jen]

It’s still dodgy. I created a test event with the same scenario. Now when I edit the recurrence, it does prompt me about editing all future dates. But having edited just the one recurrence, the permalink for the first date now goes to the information for the second, and the permalink for the second date goes nowhere.

[Jonah]

Hi Jen,

That’s strange, I’m not seeing the same behavior. Is this in the calendar view or list or everywhere? Do you have some examples I can take a look at? I’ve tried just a basic example of adding a recurring event and changing some info and then checking the links in the calendar but are there any specific steps you can provide to reproduce this? Is it happening in all cases? Have you modified the template files in anyway that could be affecting the links being used for events? I also wonder if this is somehow a conflict with another plugin or your theme? Have you tried deactivating all other plugins and/or reverting to the Twenty Twelve theme?

– Jonah

[Jen]

OK, I tried it again and got the same results, but with more specific details this time. I created a new event, set to recur daily for two days. It had a single post ID (6841) with two permalinks:
../event/test-event/2014-01-11/
../event/test-event/2014-01-12/

I then edited the second occurrence. Now, both dates have separate post IDs (6841 and 6842), but the same permalink (/event/test-event/). They show up on the correct days, with the correct information, in both the list and calendar views, but the permalinks both lead to the information for the second date.

Then when I went into post.php again for the second occurrence. Without even editing it or saving it, the permalink was automatically revised (probably to fix the conflict). So now the two permalinks are:
http://www.christchurchcathedral.org/event/test-event/
http://www.christchurchcathedral.org/event/test-event-2/

The first of these permalinks directs to the second occurrence (although it is supposed to be assigned to the first), and the second permalink is invalid.

The problem seems to be strictly with the permalinks.

[Jonah]

Hi Jen,

Two more questions:

1. What are you changing when you edit?
2. Are you choosing to apply the changes to only this event or all events?

– Jonah

[Jen]

I’m changing only the start time, and I’m applying the change only to the one event.

[Jonah]

Hi Jen,

I’m still not seeing on this on my end and I’m not sure what else to try to reproduce it. Would you be willing to put together a screencast to show me what’s going on? http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html is a good option if you don’t have one.

I want to make sure I’m following all the steps you are. The only other thing I can think of is that this is conflict with some other plugin or your theme. When you update an event in a recurrence pattern like you are, it should separate the events and make them individual unique posts with unique permalinks. Typically it would append a ‘-2’ to the second event in a series automatically to prevent any conflicts. It sounds like this is not happening for you so I’m wondering if another plugin is somehow interfering with the permalinking system…

The screencast will help me maybe identify something you’re doing different. We haven’t had reports from anyone else having trouble with recurrences so it sounds like it might be specific to your setup. But, I want to make sure I’m troubleshooting properly and hitting all the angles to make sure it’s not something we’re overlooking.

Thanks,
Jonah

[Jen]

OK, I was *finally* able to get a local copy of my site up-and-running to fiddle with the plugins. I had been holding off on updating Yoast and WPML due to conflicts with EC Pro. But now it looks like everyone is playing nicely again. I updated all three plugins, and that not only didn’t break EC Pro, it fixed the goofiness with the recurring permalinks. I still needed to repatch the events-admin.js file (since that wasn’t included in the EC 2.0.11 update), but, fingers crossed, I’m good again.

[Jonah]

Glad to hear Jen! If there’s anything else you need help with, just let us know.

– Jonah

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