[Joe]

Sure, I understand it is out of scope. It just seemed fairly unusual that these buttons wouldn’t be set a similar way to the previous generation (2.x), when they were very similar buttons but they aligned horizontally by default and there were no real issues getting that version implemented with our theme. I understand upgrading things, and 3.x is a substantial upgrade, but still, I would think things would work a bit better out of the box. I’ve been in this industry way too long and am a bit jaded by the lack of true standards on the web :/ You guys, overall, do make a good product tho 🙂

[Joe]

Hi Brook, thanks for the idea. I hadn’t dug that deep into the core css files, as I was wary of directly updating them. Anyhow, I’ve added some additional css overrides in single-event.php in my theme folder. They still don’t seem to be having an effect. Can you have a look at that URL again from the last post to see if perhaps I’m doing something wrong? I adjusted the location of the css to ensure it is before the code that creates the calendar buttons, still no effect 🙁
Thanks!

[Joe]

Thanks Brook, no worries!
I was able to get things corrected, I think by basically just ensuring that I fully reverted to our 2.x version and re-working the events theme template we were using, along with some of the other templates in the theme’s events folder.
We are now done with our ‘move’ project and things are running smoothly. My next goal is to bring us up to 3.8.1 – and now that I have an appropriate testing environment, this is easier to work with. Everything is generally working on 3.8.1, except I still have a strange formatting issue that involves the “add to calendar buttons” DIV on the single event page. Take a look at this as an example: http://dev-barrett-honors.ws.asu.edu/event/end-semester-celebration-laser-tag/
I’ve tried turning our theme off entirely, and going back to 2012 – and that, of course, fixes the problem. I’m just not an absolute expert in CSS these days and our site was originally built by someone else, and I can’t seem to understand why those calendar buttons don’t sit on their own line and don’t obey the CSS flow of the site. I’m thinking of trying perhaps one or two weird workarounds, but wanted to know if you had any suggestions. Last time I had mentioned this, you said we had a JS error, which I see, but it seems to be unrelated.
Anyways, let me know what you think, many thanks!
–Joe

[Joe]

It does have a folder called Events inside our theme folder. My concern is that on the 3 sites that we upgraded from 1.6.4 to only 2.0.10 – and I selected “Default Events Template” or whatever its called, the site “bombs” when I try to go to an individual event page. Are there perhaps some code that needed to be migrated to our theme folder during the upgrade process from 1.6.4 to 2.0.10 that didn’t make it?

I do want to get us onto the latest version, but I don’t have time right now to re-write the customizations – probably will after Thanksgiving.

It appears that the only site with the ‘major’ issue is our downtown site, which went from 1.6.4 to 2.0.10. It has the problem with the event template being set to “Default Events Template” and gives this error on the backend of things: Call to a member function loadDomainStylesScripts() on a non-object /wp-content/themes/fixed-blix/events/single.php:3
called from /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/ecp-single-template.php:23 The front-end page just stops rendering right where the content should be. Should I copy our good code that is known to be working from a different site’s “theme / events” folder?

I know that you are probably not supposed to support older versions, such a 2.0.10 – but I just need to know approximately what to try to get this working for the moment and then I can follow your guide to re-do the customizations for 3.x

Please advise, thank you 🙂
–Joe

[Joe]

This set of steps resolved the issue. Either I had missed it, or the ‘data migration’ message is missing when you go from 1.6.4 all the way to 3.8.1. I did the interim upgrade to 2.0.10 and it prompted me to do the data migration, which solved the issue of the events not showing up once the upgrade was complete.

[Joe]

Yes. If I remember correctly, I can download a previous version from your downloads area. I will try that out today.

[Joe]

Let me provide a bit more detail, that might be helpful – and I didn’t think about this before.

In the upgrade and testing process on our ‘dev’ site, our new provider auto-upgrades us to WP 4.0 when we import our site. I then upgrade all of our plugins after the site is running in that WP 4.0 dev environment. The version of the (free) Events Calendar plugin that gets imported with the site is 1.6.4 – which then gets upgraded to 3.8.1.

I do know that on 1.6.4 – all events are actually just ‘posts’ that have additional fields that are filled out for the event info, and then that post is set as an ‘event’. And our websites running 1.6.4 have never had a problem with the events displaying.

It would appear that upon upgrading to v3.8.1 of the (free) Events Calendar in our dev environment, the new Events menu shows up on the left-side of the WP admin menu – and does not show our existing events there. This is before installing The Events Calendar PRO. However, the events do still show up on the actual dev website. http://dev-downtown-wp.ws.asu.edu (see right-side sidebar).

Could this problem be an issue with going from such an old version of the plugin to the latest version? Or a problem with WP 4.0?

Do you guys offer interactive phone support? It would be much faster that way.

[Joe]

OK, thanks for the suggestion. I disabled all of the plugins on the site, then re-enabled The Events Calendar and the PRO version, in that order – just by themselves. The events have never disappeared from our site itself, but I can’t appear to manage them any longer from the Admin side. I am going to try to re-load our dev site from our live site again and step through the process slower to ensure I’m not missing anything and that I can report to you better.

[Joe]

Thanks.
On the initial issue, we decided to just upgrade our other 3 sites as the users of the sites wanted the better functionality of the PRO version of the plugin. I am going to use our custom templates that lists the events, which bypasses using the built-in URLs which would show the events list.
I did not enter our license yet for the PRO plugin that I placed onto one of our sites because it is within a dev environment – which is on a hosting provider that we’re going to moving to soon. So I’m trying to work with the PRO version before we go switch our site over (current hosted site uses the free version of the plugin). You mention that the license key should not matter in terms of existing events working with the PRO plugin. But, what I’m seeing is that none of the events from the free version of the plugin are showing up now that the upgrade is in place (same site, same web host). So, this is my main issue right now.

[Joe]

OK, just so that we’re more consistent, we’ve upgraded our license so that we can use it across our other 3 sites. One question, when I added Events Calendar PRO to one of our sites, the existing events from The Events Calendar did not seem to ‘transfer’ over and do not appear under ‘Events’ section in the WP admin area. Is there an ‘import’ routine I need to run to get them to come over from your free plugin? Thanks.

[Joe]

Hi Barry, thanks for your reply. I didn’t try all those things, and it is a dev site.

I’ve cleared the permalinks as you ask, disabled all other plugins and set the theme to TwentyTwelve (just picked one at random) and I’m still experiencing the same issue. Please have a look and let me know anything else I should try. Thanks! 🙂

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