[Geoff]

Hey folks,

Thanks for getting in touch and bringing this to our attention!

The older plugins will work with The Events Calendar 4.0 as long as they are updated to at least 3.12. If you’re running something earlier than that, you will want to update everything to at least to ensure compatibility.

The notice will continue to display if you are running 3.12 of the add-ons but rest assured that the front end will still function. We will want you to eventually update everything to 4.0 because the compatibility with older plugins will eventually go away, which is why we keep the notice running.

If you haven’t been able to install the auto-update for the plugins, then you can snag the 4.0 releases for all the plugins here on the site by logging in and heading to My Account > Downloads. From there, you will be able to manually install the updates.

Please feel free to continue following along with this thread–I’m going to make sure I address @Andreas directly since the thread started there, but you are also welcome to open a new thread of your own if you would like direct support–just want to keep the conversation as clear as possible. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey James,

Thanks for reaching out to us and bringing this issue to our attention!

We’ve got this bug logged in our internal tracking system and will notify you here as we make progress on this issue. I apologize for any inconvenience that this issue has caused.

In the meantime, you can fix this issue by making some quick modifications to the core plugin. These changes will get overridden with the next update which will include an official fix to this issue.

Within the main The Events Calendar plugin, navigate to the src > functions > template-tags > general.php file and open it within your preferred text editor.

Navigate to line #1320 within that file. It should look like:

$excerpt = wp_trim_excerpt( $excerpt );

You can change that line to be:

$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, ’55’ );

…where “55” is the number of words that you would like the excerpt to be there.

Let me know if you have any further questions or concerns here.

Thanks!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Daan, thanks for getting in touch!

Neat idea. While coming up with an exact way to do this would require custom development that is outside what we can support here in the forums, I think it would be possible.

Would you need to change the post format for Organizers? Perhaps adding a custom field for a video to the post type (via Advanced Custom Fields or something similar) would do the trick so you could attached a video to the post and then modify the loop for the organizer archive to display those videos. That might be another way to accomplish it.

Sorry I don;t have more of a concrete solution, but I hope this at least gets you headed in the right direction!

Cheers,
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey Eric,

Oh shoot! I do see the same issue: the organizer does display even if it is disabled in the widget settings.

I’ve ticketed this in our system and will follow-up with you when we have more to share, but you can use this CSS in your theme’s style.css file (or using the Simple Custom CSS plugin) as a workaround:

.tribe-events-adv-list-widget .tribe-events-organizer {
display: none !important;
}

Sorry for the trouble and I hope this helps!

Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey there,

I dug into this deeper with one of our lead developers. The crummy thing is that you are indeed right, Karly: this was fixed in 3.12.6 and leaked its way back into 4.0.

The good news is that we have already started working on a patch and plan to include it in the first maintenance release for 4.0. I don’t have an exact date for when that’s coming, but we’ve been anticipating it since before 4.0 came out and I would expect it to come soon. Of course, I will follow-up directly here in the thread when it’s coming.

In the meantime, our developer is checking for a possible workaround and i’ll be sure to share that sooner than the release if one is available.

So sorry and thanks again for your patience while we work this out!

Geoff

[Geoff]

Heck yeah, that’s great! Thanks for following up and letting me know. 🙂

[Geoff]

Hi Douglas,

Just to make sure: are you running 4.0 for all the other plugins as well? I just tried a manual Facebook import on a default WordPress install and everything came through error-free. Perhaps you can copy and paste your system settings (Events > Settings > Help) here as a private reply to see if there is anything obvious off the bat.

Thanks!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey Laura and thanks for reaching out!

Geez, I’m so sorry about that. The auto-update should indeed work and, in fact, just did when I tested it. I think the difference was having the existing add-ons deactivated when I did. That ensures any incompatibilities between 3.x and 4.0 are moot and provides the server with more capacity to perform the update.

I should mention that I didn’t notice the helpful message at the top of the plugins page you guys had added warning about incompatibilities!

That’s a solid point. We’ve done a lot to communicate the warnings here on the site as well as in our newsletter and social media, but I can see how having an additional warning (like the way WooCommerce does it) would be helpful. I’ve ticketed this in our system for us to look into for a future release to avoid this from happening again.

Again, sorry for the trouble during update and thanks for your feedback–this really does help a lot and I appreciate you sharing this with us here.

Did you have any other questions? Please let me know and I’d be happy to help as we best I can.

Cheers,
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Karly, thanks for getting in touch!

I’m so sorry for the trouble here. This is indeed a bug that we have logged a ticket for in our system. Unfortunately, I do not have a timeframe for when it will be patched, but I have added this thread to the ticket and will be sure to follow up with you when I know more. I’ll set this thread to Pending Fix in the meantime.

Thank you for your patience while we figure this out!

Geoff

[Geoff]

Heck yeah, thanks Matthew!

Robert, please do keep me posted and I’d be happy to help as best I can.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

My pleasure! Keep me posted. 🙂

[Geoff]

Hey there!

Something like this should do the trick:

https://gist.github.com/geoffgraham/9224b5953b4978110a87

I have fully tested this, but it should at least give you a good starting point to work with.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hi Alain,

Good question! Yes, Events Calendar is actually an extension of The Events Calendar and both plugins run together. Event Calendar PRO draws off the same code as The Events Calendar but extends it with a few more features, so you will likely see no compatibility issues if there are currently none with The Events Calendar.

The best thing to do is test it for yourself, so we do offer a full refund on all purchases within 30 days with the receipt. That should give you some time to give it a test drive to make sure all runs smoothly.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hey Mario, thanks for following up!

Is it possible your theme or another plugin has configured the time settings for your site? The calendar can and will respect global timezone settings based on what is set on the site.

I tried creating my own recurring event that repeats weekly before and after March 13 and they all retained the same start time (screenshot). Perhaps we can test this a little further by having you run through the steps outlined in this article to see if we can spot a conflict. Will you please those a try and let me know if you spot the same issue in default conditions?

Thanks!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Right on and thanks for following up, Susan! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving as well and thanks again for getting in touch. 🙂

Cheers,
Geoff

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