[Lance]

. . . . or, granting that seeing future events is the primary purpose of an events calendar, there could be an option for events categories to show all events, but in reverse chronological order, with the most recent at the top, so folks could find the future events easy enough.

But what you say above also does not solve the problem of categories with no future events generating errors in the Google Search Console, does it?

Lance

[Lance]

Andras,

Thanks for your careful and complete answer. The bit about past events not showing up makes sense in most applications. However, we are a nonprofit that depends on grants to support our programs. So the history of past programs is often important to us, so that we can show granting agencies what we’ve done with their money.

Several of our categories were created with this idea in mind. I thought we could just tell the granting agency to click on a certain category, and lo!, they’d be able to easily see what we’ve done with their $$$. Would I be right, then, that this is not possible with TECPro, without, as you say, “some custom coding.”

I understand that this is not the primary purpose of an events calendar, but it certainly might be a useful option for some nonprofit groups. I don’t imagine that we are the only one that has to report back to granting agencies.

Anyhow, again, many thanks. Lance

[Lance]

Andras,

Sorry, but one more:

https://centerforworldmusic.org/events/category/sdcac/2017-02/

The page itself loads properly with some dynamic content. However our calendar does not kick in, so it is likely not dependent on our calendar.

It looks like that event category doesn’t exist.

First, to your final point. The category does exist. See:

https://centerforworldmusic.org/events/category/sdcac/

The category now has one event, the same dummy event I just created for my previous post.

This raises essentially the same question that I asked above: Do categories become empty, and thus generate crawler errors, after the event is over?

Regarding your thought that “it is likely not dependent on our calendar,” it may no longer be, but could it have been generated by an old version of TECPro? Otherwise, I am a loss to account for its existence.

Thanks again. Lance

[Lance]

Andras,

Regarding your response:

https://centerforworldmusic.org/events/page/3/

This should show you the 3rd page of your event list. However there are seemingly only 2 events in your calendar and they are both shown on the first page. So the third page doesn’t exist / nothing can be shown there.

Possibly with the help of a custom code or a plugin this could be redirected to page 1 instead.

Why does TECPro generate a page like that if it is not needed? Or, if it was once needed, at the start of the season, does it just remain, empty, when the season is over? Again, seems less than ideal.

Lance

[Lance]

Andras,

Thanks for taking a look. Regarding your response:

https://centerforworldmusic.org/events/category/passport/list/?tribe_event_display=list&tribe_paged=1

This url should list events from the “passport” category. The category seems to exist but there are no events in that category, thus you get an empty result set.

I created a “dummy” future event in the passport category. It now shows up. Is it the case, therefore, that categories only display future events, and that once that event is over, the category for that event will start generating crawl errors? That would be less than ideal, no?

Thanks, Lance

[Lance]

Today, I notice a further URL causing “not found” errors in Google Search Console:

https://centerforworldmusic.org/events/page/3/

Any chance of some help with this?

Thanks! Lance

[Lance]

Thanks, Patricia. Mark this resolved!

[Lance]

Patricia– Well, “it should not be a problem.” But sadly it is. I had already read that knowledgebase article.

Is there any option that doesn’t require deactivating the license key on the live site, and adding it temporarily to the staging site?

For example, can you give me any further details on the option recommended by Nico in this topic:

https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/my-staging-environment-says-i-am-out-of-installs/

I assume he means download a preview release from the “Early Access”. Is that right? Will it work?

Thanks! Lance

[Lance]

Thanks, Andras. I’ll contact the theme developers. Meanwhile, can you suggest links where I can go to see examples of how the latest version of TECP

should

look and behave?

[Lance]

For the current update, the pro version was not visible until I deactivated. It disappeared again when I reactivated. I deactivated and tried to install, but the install failed. This is getting to be a pain!

[Lance]

Thanks, Nico. I’d never noticed that manual Excerpt function. Useful!

Problem resolved! Lance

[Lance]

Hi, Hunter and Colleagues–

FYI, I have once again received an update invitation for TEC (4.3.4.1), with no parallel notice for TECP.

Lance

[Lance]

OK, here’s the deal. I was following your suggestion for manually installing. I downloaded the latest zip file of TECP. Then I deactivated the plugin. Curiously, as soon as I deactivated, a message popped up saying that there was a new version of TECP and inviting me to update. I clicked on update. The update was installed automatically. I reactivated the plugin. Everything seems nice!

So, I guess my immediate problem is resolved. However, the strange behavior remains. I hope this gets fixed before the next update.

[Lance]

I haven’t had time to do the sleuthing work recommended. However, this issue now appears to have somehow resolved itself with the recent update to 4.3. The comma’s still there, but it’s not followed by a hard return.

[Lance]

OK, I looked around in the Kriesi Enfold forum, and it appears that the Enfold theme is set up to adapt The Events Calendar by overriding some of its features. To quote:

Enfold modifies the Event Calendar plugin in order to integrate it with the theme, part of this is removing the (3) styles options included with the plugin to use the theme ones instead. If you don’t like this you can simply remove this line in functions.php and use the plugin standalone:

require_once( ‘config-events-calendar/config.php’ ); //compatibility with the Events Calendar

See: http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/default-template-settings-missing-from-event-calendar-pro/

I tried blocking the above line, but the result looks awful. With that code, it merely looks odd, unprofessional. I guess it’s time to engage the folks at Kriesi, unless someone here has some suggestions.

Thanks!

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