[Barry]

Not quite – sorry if I’m missing the obvious here but on this page:

http://margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/live-events/past/page/2/

I can only see a link to another previous event page and if I follow that process there are no links after:

http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/live-events/past/page/8/

I’m not for instance seeing links or references to:

http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/live-events/past/page/50/

Or:

http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/upcoming-events/page/54

Anywhere – it’s definitely possible that I’m looking in the wrong spot though 😉 can you provide any more guidance so I can see what you are seeing?

[Barry]

Yes that does make sense – but what I mean is, if The Events Calendar is generating links/references to these non-existent pages then I am unable to figure out where that is happening and where they are being exposed.

So my question would be, do you know where your webmaster tools are pulling these URLs from … could it be from the sitemap for instance (if so perhaps the plugin generating that map is using a set of not-always-correct assumptions to generate its output)?

[Barry]

Thanks!

So here are a few changes you can make that should at least get you to a better starting position. Before you proceed though, please read and familiarize yourself with:

– Our themer’s guide
– This tutorial on template overrides

Armed with everything you have gleaned from the above resources, please then try the following steps:

1. Visit Events > Settings > Template and change the Events Template setting to Default Events Template.

2. Copy and override ecp-page-template.php per the instructions in our themer’s guide and the template overrides tutorial.

3. Change your copy of ecp-page-template.php so it looks like this.

4. Also edit your theme’s stylesheet and add these rules to the bottom.

Does that help?

[Barry]

Hi Rick,

Can you take a look at this thread and Jonah’s final answer in particular and see if that helps?

Duplicate H1 titles in Events Calendar Pro

[Barry]

Ahh ok, so I may not have been able to see the link in my test due to a difference in settings. Regardless, if that fix works for you then that’s the important thing.

It may be you can limit the impact of that change by using a conditional within your function, like tribe_is_event() or even by inspecting the global $post object, so that the link stays in place on non-events pages.

I also have the 404 error in webmaster tools for category archives I think
eg http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/live-events/page/7/ or
http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/event/category/upcoming-events/page/54/

Do you have any idea where these links are being generated? I’m not sure that The Events Calendar itself makes any references to these non-existent pages …

[Barry]

Hi mamalm,

I can appreciate your frustration and want to apologize on behalf of the team for letting you down on this one.

This will indeed be better supported in WooTickets 2.0 – which we plan on releasing in tandem with The Events Calendar 3.0. There has been a bit more of a delay getting this release out of the door than we would initially have anticipated but there have been a significant number of improvements above and below the surface and that has, unfortunately, thrown our schedule somewhat as major restructuring work is prone to do.

However: we have now completed our beta testing phase and are definitely speeding along the final furlong toward releasing these new versions of our plugins – so while we still can’t give a guaranteed release date I think we can safely say we are very close indeed.

[Barry]

OK, so let’s deal with this issue first off:

recurring events like http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14/ keep having the events calendar create a feed page for each day event like http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14/feed which do not work.

I can see the link in the source:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Margaret River Guide » Busselton Community Garden Market Comments Feed" href="http://www.margaretriverguide.com.au/events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14/feed/" />

And it looks as if it is outside of the meta data generated by WPSEO … however if I test this on an installation running only our plugins and the default Twenty Twelve theme I don’t see the same thing.

That suggests to me that either WPSEO (probably not) or another plugin (possibly) or your theme (probably) is creating this link – on the page you linked to you can see it on or around line 42 if you view the source.

Can you try disabling other plugins and reverting to a default theme – such as Twenty Twelve – and see if you can narrow down what’s causing this?

[Barry]

Does your theme create any other menu entries that appear in approximately the same position (ie, right below the Posts menu item) where you normally would see the Events menu item (as you would have seen with Twenty Twelve)?

Unfortunately we can’t guarantee compatibility with all other themes and plugins simply because there is no way to anticipate all the different things they might to and ways in which they work – but we’ll definitely take some time to see if we can figure out a solution to help you 🙂

[Barry]

Hi Benji,

So in the previous thread you referenced this was affecting sitemaps and the theme was:

Yoast SEO is including “1970-01-01″ at the end of all the recurring event permalinks within my XML sitemaps

Which sounds slightly different from your problem:

I have recurring events producing bogus feeds eg: events/busselton-community-garden-market-4/2013-09-14/feed/

Can you clarify where you are seeing this exactly?

Also I have event categories producing bogus pages when trying to list all content archives for that category?

Again can you clarify where this is occuring / provide some context so I can get a better feel for what’s happening here?

Thanks!

[Barry]

I believe there may be some post duplication plugins available:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=post+duplicator

One of those may help here.

[Barry]

Hi Mike,

Your first stop should be the following tutorial on customizing widgets:

https://theeventscalendar.com/how-to-completely-customize-widgets/

You may also be interested in the following snippets (which you could add to your theme’s functions.php file – and/or you might also modify them slightly):

http://pastebin.com/hPS9nwft
http://pastebin.com/MueUvm45

I think there may also be a few examples of retrieving and using ticket prices outside of the tickets template over on the WooTickets forum so that may be worth researching too.

I hope that helps 🙂

[Barry]

Not at all – so long as you’ve got a solution that’s the main thing 🙂

[Barry]

Hi Michael.

Regarding your first question you could try following the instructions in this snippet – and please familiarize yourself with our Themer’s Guide (link over on the right under Useful Resources) first of all, if you are unfamiliar with customizing The Events Calendar 🙂

Similarly, is there a way to exclude events that have passed, ie to only display a previous event link if the previous event is an upcoming event?

So that would be a littel more involved and I’d have to leave it to you to find a solution – you might find snippets for this or something similar to this on the forum or else you would need to look at the plugin’s code and adapt it to meet your own needs.

Good luck!

[Barry]

On the one that isn’t working the page has no sub-title (nothing before the “» Southampton Climbing Wall”), and that the code is somehow inserting and tags in random spots.

That’s right. The text in p.page-banner-heading (where it reads Intro to Climbing Course – 1st July, 6pm in the working example) is also absent and that’s likely to be causing a knock on effect, with everything else displaying higher up than it should.

inserting p and break tags in random spots

This can be caused by other plugins but usually is because the theme is applying wpautop or other formatting measures later on than usual – and, unfortunately, that can have this peculiar side effect where content from plugins like The Events Calendar becomes peppered with paragraph and break tags.

Tim: have you tried switching the template in use via Events > Settings > Template?

[Barry]

It looks like your start and end dates are different.

As an example, if you have an event running every Saturday then the start and end date should both be the same (ie, representing the first Saturday). You would then choose an appropriate recurrence pattern (recurs every week until … some future date).

If you were to choose a start date of today and an end date two months in the future – and then added a recurrence pattern on top – the system will think each individual event spans two months.

I hope that makes sense, but let me know if you need me to clarify anything.

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