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Oh no, sorry to hear that!

I can’t guarantee anything, but I’d certainly love to take a closer look. Mind uploading a zip of the Advanced Post Types Order plugin?

Thanks!

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Hi Tracy — thanks for your interest in our plugins 🙂

Much as I’d love to win you over as a customer, I think in this case that a combination of Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus may not be the best fit.

It would certainly be possible to build what you want using those plugins, but it would also require an amount of customization that you could probably avoid or limit if you used a different solution — such as a paid membership plugin.

I hope that helps and do let me know if you have further questions!

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Hi Mike and Laurie,

Our apologies for the delay over the festive period — most of the team were stood down to spend some time with their families and that resulted in some additional delays here.

What I’d like to explore next-of-all is the way you are modelling your recurring events — as I suspect we could alter your approach here and reduce the net volume of events which in turn will improve performance, perhaps dramatically so.

On visiting your site and looking at month view and clicking through from there into individual day views, I noticed you have a very large volume of events with identical names. Taking January 5 as an example, I see 41 events of the same name (see screenshot in the following reply). These are all part of the same series of recurring events and two things have happened:

• It’s a recurring event (repeats every week)
• It’s also a multiday event (each instance is almost 1 year in duration)
• This results in a huge number of events being “stacked up” because a new one lasting a year is added with each additional week

It’s possible this is deliberate, but I suspect it is not and that what you really want to do here is change the duration of each instance to just one week, giving you an event where each instance is 1 week long and repeats every week for however long you want.

Making that adjustment will reduce the total volume of events on your site massively and will also give visitors a much clearer picture of what’s happening when they visit month view.

Does that help/make sense? Please don’t hesitate to reach out if I can clarify this further.

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That’s not quite the same as I experience (though I don’t get all 441 importing, either, but it comes close):

Also there is no “Ignored” tab, so I’m not sure why nearly 100 events in the spreadsheet are not importing.

OK, don’t worry about the ignored tab in that case as if you are not seeing it, no events have been ignored as yet. I’m unsure why 100 events are not importing for you, though. Do you have or can you create a clean test site and see if the same issue occurs there, too?

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That’s strange … it does work without issue for me locally. Though these steps shouldn’t be necessary, there are two things I’d like to try:

• Delete one or more of the scheduled imports (let’s start with the example you shared above), recreate and see if it then begins to work
• If that doesn’t work, please replace your Event Aggregator key with the new one I just added to your account (details in my next post) and try again
• If that doesn’t work, please additionally try recreating the import with the new license key in place

Let me know if this helps!

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Hi there Suzanne,

Unfortunately, you’ve hit up against what appears to be a bug with our embedded view (ie, where you use the [tribe_events] shortcode). I’ll file a bug report for this and we’ll drop an update in here once we’ve got some news to share with you.

In the meantime, if you feel comfortable doing so, please try adding the following code either to a custom plugin (preferred) or else to your theme’s functions.php file:

/**
 * Ensure that month view 'view all X events' on this day links are functional.
 *
 * This is a temporary workaround for a bug in Events Calendar PRO 4.4.20.1.
 */
add_filter( 'tribe_get_day_link', function( $url, $date ) {
    // Intervention is only needed following navigation by ajax
    if ( ! defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) || ! DOING_AJAX ) {
        return $url;
    }

    // Sanity check: only intervene if we have a valid date to work with
    if ( ! preg_match( '/^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$/', $date ) ) {
        return $url;
    }

    // Ensure the expected view parameters are in place
    $view_params = [
        'tribe-bar-date' => $date,
        'tribe_event_display' => 'day'
    ];

    return add_query_arg( $view_params, $url );
}, 10, 2 );

This will hopefully provide you with temporary relief from the problem.

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Hi Mike,

That’s an interesting problem.

I’d be happy to explore it with you a little, but ultimately we are not SEO consultants and so can really only speak to what is possible and how you might achieve it.

To start with, you could add meta tags to all single events telling search engines not to index them. That way the information would still be present on your main calendar and other event views for your visitors to consume — and search engines will extract the data they need from the main event view.

Alternatively, for recurring events specifically, you could override the canonical link and have it point to the ‘all’ page for the event series. What I mean by this is, if you have a recurring events with a URL something like mysite.com/event/recurring-event/2018-07-01 then the canonical URL link (which already exists) could be changed to point to mysite.com/event/recurring-event/all.

You might even combine those strategies and perhaps only add no-index meta tags to single instances of recurring events — and alter the canonical link for each.

How beneficial this would be/exactly what impact this will have on your search ranking, though, is harder to guess at … but I do hope this at least gives you some paths to explore 🙂

[Barry]

Hi Sally,

Great question!

Many calendar applications — Google Calendar and The Events Calendar are both great examples of this — provide an iCal (or “.ics”) feed.

This format is pretty much the industry standard for letting other applications subscribe to calendars and is one of the methods that Event Aggregator supports.

On looking at the first URL you shared (for a calendar generated by Evanced) I don’t see any clear links to such a feed, so the best I can recommend is that you approach either the support team for Evanced or the owners of the sites you wish to import from and seek their advice: if such a feed is available they should be able to provide the correct URL.

That said, based on the information provided in the other topic you linked to, it does seem like it might be possible to “craft” the URL you are looking for, much as the other user did, but unfortunately I seem unable to determine what that should look like.

With that in mind, reaching out to the owner of those other sites/calendars may be your best shot here 🙂

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Sorry to hear it, @austincountynewsonline.

Would you be able to share (by private reply if you prefer) the URL of the Facebook event you are trying to import?

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi Sheryl,

I’m sorry to hear that.

Let’s kick off by poking at the missing social meta tags for single events. In my case, it seems like this is working as expected … here’s what I tried in order to replicate the problem:

• I visited the All in One SEO ‣ Feature Manager screen and enabled the social meta module
• Next I visited the All in One SEO ‣ Social Meta screen and checked the option to integrate with events
• I then edited an event and added a title, description and custom image via the All in One SEO Pack ‣ Social Settings tab
• After saving my changes I inspected the page and I saw that the relevant Open Graph tags were present, including one for the custom image

So this all appeared to work as expected. What’s interesting is that in your case, taking this event that you shared as an example, the tags aren’t present at all.

This suggests the steps I followed to replicate the problem need to be tweaked (if anything obvious jumps out at you, let me know) or else perhaps there is a conflict on your own site – with either your theme or another plugin (or perhaps there is a difference in version numbers).

“Out of the box”, though, it seems like social (Open Graph) tags for single events are working as expected. What are your thoughts on this one?

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