[Cliff]

Hi again, Robert.

Might this be what you’re looking for: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/show-past-events-in-chronological-order/ ?

[Cliff]

Hi Robert. Thanks for your question and the screenshot.

Photo View displays each event’s Featured Image. Do any of those event posts have a Featured Image?

http://cl.ly/1g342m1M351O

[Cliff]

If it removed more of your calendar events, are some of your events updated — i.e. iCal Importer thinks Event A has been edited in the .ics import from one day to another — or something like that?

Is there any pattern you can determine it’s following?

Does it happen with just this ics feed or other feeds as well?

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Whenever there are wonky things going on, we always ask you to please follow our Testing for Conflicts Guide and see if that helps narrow down the cause of this.

Let us know what you find out.

Thanks.

[Cliff]

Hi Paul. Sorry you’re having this issue.

Do you have Easy Digital Downloads activated? If yes, is it the latest version?

If yes, I’d recommend trying a few things:

1. Delete and re-install fresh copies of both EDD and Event Tickets Plus
2. Enable WP_DEBUG mode and see if there are any messages
3. Once WP_DEBUG isn’t throwing any messages, please follow our Testing for Conflicts Guide and see if that helps narrow down the cause of this.

Let us know what you find out.

Thanks.

[Cliff]

Hi Sara.

That’s the latest version of our iCal Importer add-on.

Could you please provide me the URL of the iCal file you’re importing?

Also, please provide some links or screenshots to duplicate events so I can inspect them.

Thanks.

[Cliff]

This might be the information you’re looking for:

Once you get events importing via iCal Importer, know that iCal Importer was recently changed to NOT overwrite/update existing (i.e. previously-imported) events, since users might make local changes and wish for those changes to persist.

You should be able to use the tribe_events_ical_importer_overwrite_existing_events filter to re-enable this functionality. For example:

// Allow events that have already been imported to be updated if the source event
// is changed and if it was pulled in via a saved recurring import (iCal Importer)
add_filter( 'tribe_events_ical_importer_overwrite_existing_events', '__return_true' );

This hook can be found in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-importer-ical/src/Tribe/Importer.php if you’d like to look into it further.

I hope this information helps. Please let me know if you need anything else.

[Cliff]

Awesome!

[Cliff]

Thanks for that.

Those characters were from your use of tribe_get_event_categories(), as mentioned earlier, which isn’t used in my snippet.

In the snippet I provided, the “More Info” text will link to the first category’s archive view. If an event is in multiple categories, only the first category will be linked (i.e. there won’t be more than one “More Info” bit of text/link).

I hope this makes the snippet clearer, and I’m glad it’s helpful to you.

Have a great weekend!

[Cliff]

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[Cliff]

Thanks for the updates, Mark. I’m glad things got working for you!

[Cliff]

What URL are you using as the import (something that ends in .ics or just that link that ends in .html)?

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Best practice for adding custom code (like to implement a PHP snippet to modify The Events Calendar) is to create a functionality plugin, unless it’s something specific to your theme, in which case best practice is to make sure you’re using a child theme, then add the customization to your child theme’s functions.php file.

// Allow events that have already been imported to be updated if the source event
// is changed and if it was pulled in via a saved recurring import (iCal Importer)
add_filter( 'tribe_events_ical_importer_overwrite_existing_events', '__return_true' );

I hope this information helps!

[Cliff]

Hi Mark. Thanks for the link to your site.

I saw quite a few errors in the console for your site: http://cl.ly/022J3u231X1A

It seems most are coming from http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.mailchimp.com/js/signup-forms/popup/embed.js

I’d suggest deactivating whichever plugin is adding this script and see if your issue is resolved. If still not resolved, please follow our Testing for Conflicts Guide and see if that helps narrow down the cause of this.

Let us know what you find out.

Thanks.

[Cliff]

Hi. Thanks for your detailed question.

There’s no way for the iCal Importer to know “Google Event X” is the same as “WP manually-created / pre-existing Event Y”. Same for Organizers and Venues data.

Therefore, there’s going to have to be some manual effort here.

Your decision on whether or not to delete before importing or delete duplicates after importing might be influenced by whether or not the feeds you’re importing are the official source of information or not, for example. You might also want to use the iCal Importer’s option to only import events from a specified date and newer (not events prior to this date).

Something to note: Once you get events importing via iCal Importer, know that iCal Importer was recently changed to NOT overwrite/update existing (i.e. previously-imported) events, since users might make local changes and wish for those changes to persist.

You should be able to use the tribe_events_ical_importer_overwrite_existing_events filter to re-enable this functionality. This hook can be found in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-importer-ical/src/Tribe/Importer.php if you’d like to look into this further.

I hope this information helps. Please let me know if you need anything else.

[Cliff]

Hi. Thanks for the written details. Could you please provide some links and screenshots (possibly with annotations explaining what you’re expecting and where you’re expecting it)?

Thanks!

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