[Daniel Veaner]

Private reply sent. For folks with the same issue, Geoff’s suggestion was the solution. A customization from an older version of one of the Community files was the culprit. Updating that fixed this problem.

[Daniel Veaner]

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[Daniel Veaner]

Geoff,

I think I found the root of the issue. In the Submit an Event screen the recurring events button doesn’t show correctly — instead I get a drop down that does not let you set the recurrence details. After much experimenting I think this is a theme conflict, but I tried it on a number of themes, including WordPress themes, and the only one it seems to be working on correctly is Twenty Fourteen, which I really don’t like.

I experimented so much that I think I missed something but I think it was actually working on the Twenty Sixteen theme until I started customizing it within WordPress. Then it id the same thing — drop-down instead of the button that really lets you set recurring events.

My preference is to either use Twenty Sixteen or the theme I had created — is there a way to force the button instead of the dropdown?

Thanks again,

Dan

[Daniel Veaner]

Hi Geoff,

Thanks very much for that tip — it did resolve the issue. I am going to add that as a note ton our “Add Event” page to inform our users and remind myself.

Speaking of that, for a future version it would be great to have a field in Settings to add text (and pictures — an editor like the ones for Before and After in the Display section of Settings) to the top of that “Submit An Event” page. It could be used for site rules on entering events, info, ads, or whatever, and would be easier than the current method of using a copy of the php file for the Add form in the template. Not a big or urgent thing, but it would be a nice amenity.

Thanks again for your great help,

Dan

[Daniel Veaner]

Cliff,

Thanks very much for your help on this. You are right – changing to the page template setting did bring back the sidebar!

The checkbox issue was fixed by changing a setting in TemplateToaster and re-exporting the template. After mentioning it here I remembered that I had seen the same issue in a Joomla template, and it required the same solution.

So I am back up and running.

Thanks again,

Dan

[Daniel Veaner]

No, this is different. Did more investigation, and the plugin was conflicting with the template, made with Artisteer. As I mentioned, this only began with Community 4.4.1 and continued with 4.4.2.

I have been moving away from Artisteer because of poor support, and using TemplateToaster instead, and I did have a TemplateToaster template I had been experimenting with but wasn’t ready to use. I guess I will finish the TemplateToaster template and work with that, but something in 4.4.1 did change venues and organizers.

The four attachments show what was happening: One shows the Artisteer template with 4.4 – working. One shows the Artisteer template with 4.4.2 – not working (and you can see how the ability to view existing venues or create new ones is missing). One shows it working with 2016, and the last shows it working with the templateToaster template (though there is a problem with the category checkboxes – they work, but they don’t display correctly).

One strange thing is the Calendar view is suppressing the right sidebar of the TemplateToaster template. It works on non-Events Calendar pages, but not on pages with the calendar or the Community Add form.

If you would like a copy of the conflicting template to experiment with I will be happy to send one.

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[Daniel Veaner]

Cliff, I understand. The site is actually on a VPS with some other sites we own. It has been pretty stable. I have root and WHM access, so I know we’re not dealing with a memory leak issue.

So I guess I’ll just keep my eyes open and see if I can learn more.

Thanks,

Dan

[Daniel Veaner]

I have doubled the memory_limit, though it was pretty high to start with. It was 512M — the new setting is 1024M. I think that is really high for WordPress, isn’t it?

I am fairly confident it is not a plugin conflict. As you said, this site is relatively plugin light, and I have not added new plugins in some time. I did try the guide suggestions, but since I can’t duplicate the problem I don’t have a way to know if that is the problem. I think it is not, though, because there hasn’t been a problem up until now.

I wish I could duplicate the problem myself — that would make it much easier to trace. I guess the only thing I can do is monitor it with the higher memory setting, see if anyone else reports the problem.

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• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Daniel Veaner.

[Daniel Veaner]

Yes, that does work, thank you. I set it to 12, created an event to occur monthly, set it to Never and it only made 12. I created another event and chose an end date three years from now, but it only created 12. So this does work, thanks!

Along these lines I would like to be able to add other limits. For example, let’s say someone entered a daily recurring event for the entire 12 months. I would consider that an abuse, and I would have to delete 365 events. Having a way to suppress specific instances of recurring events like that so they cannot be entered would be great.

Finally, I would like to alert people to the fact that “Never” means 12 months worth. Can you help me find the location in the template where I can put this message? I would like to locate it below the Recurrence drop down in the Event Time and Date section.

Thanks again,

Dan

[Daniel Veaner]

Barry,
Thanks for this! It does get me the correct URL, but when I click the link I made with it, the calendar hangs on the turning gear. Because the site is live I can’t leave the link there for you to see, but here is a screenshot of what it looks like plus the code I used to make the link (since I am not sure what html will do in a post on this forum): http://ithacalendar.com/ithacalendar-hanging.png

Again, I have this code in my template copy of /month/nav.php.

I tried creating the link two ways. One of them was just the simple a href= link and the other included target=_top — both approaches result in hanging on the gear.

If I mouse over my “Today” link, right click and tell it to open the link in a new browser tab or window it happily opens to the correct page with the right date showing, in this case: http://www.ithacalendar.com/events/2013-09/

So my question is, is there a special way links have to be laid out to work correctly within the calendar template?

I noticed in the page source when looking at my site that the link code for the next and prev links have extra arguments including data-month=yyyy-mm and rel=pref
Would adding them fix this? And the reason I am asking instead of just trying it is: what tribe function gets me the data-month?
Thanks!

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