[George]

Hey Lluis,

What version of The Events Calendar free version is installed on your site? You should bring that up to 3.9.3 with the piecemeal process I described above.

As for upgrading versions of PRO from 1.3.0, I’m sorry for my confusion there! Thanks for clarifying that. This is a bit trickier to manage since we don’t have the outdated versions as readily as available for PRO as we do for the free version – but if you have good backups that you can definitively restore from, then at your own discretion you may find it easiest to just go to https://theeventscalendar.com/my-account/ and download the latest .zip of PRO and try updating with that, all the way from from 1.3.0, and see how things go. If it’s a disaster, well, you’ve got your backups 🙂 This is not necessarily recommended, and something you should only do at your own discretion, but it may be the fastest way forward.

If you don’t want to do this, and want older .zips of PRO, I’d recommend emailing us at [email protected] with a description of your issues and a link back to this forum thread for reference. We should be able to send you .zips privately there.

Thank you Lluis!

[George]

Sounds good, thanks for the confirmation Daniel! Best of luck with your site – if other issues arise, don’t hesitate to come back and open a new thread 🙂

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Ian,

The main issue here as reported by Chris is that the actual number of events themselves is cut short, not a specific element of each event like the description is getting cut off.

You described the latter issue on your site, but I’m curious, did you also run into Chris’s issue, where even if you had, say, 80 events to import, only the first 50 would?

Thanks,
George

[George]

Sounds good Mitchell. I’ll close up this ticket for now, since both the credits system and the user-registration things are not related to any of our products here directly, but if other issues arise, come back to the forums any time and open a new ticket! 🙂

Best of luck with your project,
George

[George]

Hi Shah,

There’s a lot of information here, but I think the core confusion is about what Organizers actually are.

Organizers in The Events Calendar are not users on your site. Organizers are technically a taxonomy, think of it the exact same way as “categories” or “tags”. They are not actual user accounts.

To have user accounts for actual event organizers, you need to create user accounts inside your WordPress installation similar to what’s described here → http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-new-users-and-authors-to-your-wordpress-blog/

These new user accounts will be able to create events. Say a user has the name of “John Smith”, and he also is an organizer that you want to be displaying on the front of your site – John Smith can log into his user account, then create an “Organizer” that is also called John Smith, and publish his event with his event’s “organizer” field set to John Smith.

I’m sorry if this is all confusing, but resolving this core confusion about authors and the organizers taxonomy is the key to most of your questions here. Spending time within your WordPress installation and reading articles like the one I posted above should help – let me know if they do, or if you have any specific followup questions here.

Thanks,
George

[George]

Awesome! Glad to hear it Nicolas!

Be sure to make backups of that custom code, and backups of your site and database in general. Best of luck with your project 🙂

George

[George]

Hi Paul,

This behavior is bizarre and it’s now on our radar as a potential bug to investigate – if it’s a bug, we will get a fix out promptly.

In the meantime, I wrote a temporary fix for you that should help – can you try adding the code in this Gist I wrote for you to your theme’s functions.php file? You should copy everything over except the opening <?php tag, that’s not necessary in your functions.php file.

Let me know what you find when you try out this custom code, and if it’s a usable solution until we figure out what’s actually going on here and can fix it properly.

I’m sorry for the frustration that comes with odd bugs like this, thank you for your patience.

— George

[George]

Hey Simon,

That is indeed some odd behavior. One thing that might help is if you customize the /views/pro/photo/single-event.php file in your Events Calendar PRO files and make this line of code:

<?php echo tribe_event_featured_image( null, 'medium' ); ?>

Look like this instead:

<?php echo tribe_event_featured_image( null, 'full' ); ?>

Try this out – does it help for you?

I’d recommend making these changes in line with the principles described in our official themer’s guide here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/

Thanks!
George

[George]

James, I’m very sorry to hear about these problems – hopefully we can get your events back ASAP!

One thing I’m curious about is that you said “basically since yesterday”, and then described your problems. What happened “yesterday”? Did you change anything on your site? Migrate from one to another? Install or update anything – themes, plugins, WP Core itself?

You mention that you deactivated plugins on your site – thanks for testing that! If possible, can you also try the next two steps?

1. Head to your site’s wp-config.php file and change this line of code:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

to this:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

That will display PHP errors on your site if any exist, which can help. If any errors do pop up, copy and paste them in their entirety into Gists at http://gist.github.com, then share a link to the Gist here so we can read through them in full.

2. Activate a default theme like Twenty Twelve on your site.

Finally, for now – what exactly did you do with this code from that other forum post? How did you add it on your site?

Thanks James!

[George]

Hello,

This is something that is, indeed, possible – but it’s not anything that The Events Calendar itself enables, nor any of its add-ons here.

You would have to use a separate plugin that enables this sort of pay-to-post functionality and use it in addition to The Events Calendar and any other plugins on your site.

I hope that addresses your question! Let us know if it does.

Cheers,
George

[George]

Hey Patrick,

The Events Calendar and its add-ons should indeed be compatible with WordPress 4.2 – what version of WordPress are you upgrading from?

Also, can you explain exactly what you mean when you say “it breaks my home page widgets”? What is breaking and what’s happening on your site?

Thanks!
George

[George]

Hey Tom,

This is indeed possible, but not something related to The Events Calendar or any add-ons to it. You’d have to make a custom metabox field somewhere in your post/event/page/etc. edit screens, and then just the permissions controls and functions within WordPress to selectively display this field and its data.

Let me know if this helps – if you’re curious about a specific thing here, let me know in more detail and I can hopefully point you in the right direction before closing up the ticket!

Thanks,
George

[George]

Hey Rahmin,

There are a few ways I can think of implementing something like this on your site – the first (and arguably the simplest) way would be to get one of our ticketing add-ons and just make “free” tickets for whatever events you need people to sign up for.

Alternatively, if everyone has access to everything in the admin already, you could just create “additional fields” with PRO and have a different field for each person’s name – then, if they can attend an event, they can just navigate to that event and put “YES” or “NO” or something into their name’s additional field, and save the event. You can learn more about PRO’s additional fields features here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-additional-fields/

Let me know if any of this helps!

— George

[George]

Hey Marie,

While specific recommendations for other systems don’t quite come to mind, you might indeed be able to use The Events Calendar and a ticketing add-on to enable these features on your site.

It seems like a lot of the functionality you need is core to WordPress itself. If you make user accounts for your instructors and give them enough access so that they can publish events, and create tickets for their classes (even just free tickets, $0, just so that people have to “sign” up for them and reserve a spot and such), it might work well for your project.

You can learn about that process of creating Author users on your site in other articles online like this one, for example → http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-new-users-and-authors-to-your-wordpress-blog/. Search around a bit and you’ll find a ton of great resources on that topic.

I hope this information helps! Let us know if it does, or if you have any other specific questions here.

Thanks!
George

[George]

Hey Remco,

This is unfortunately not possible without customizing the core Facebook Events code directly. This is not recommended, and it’s a code change that will be erased when you auto-update the plugin in the future (so you’ll have to re-make this code edit after every edit), but you can fortunately do it very easily.

All you have to do is look in the main Facebook Events importer plugin file and look for code that looks like this:

// set the event's map status if global setting is enabled
if( tribe_get_option('fb_enable_GoogleMaps') ) {
    update_post_meta( $event_id, '_EventShowMap', true );
}

You should find that somewhere between lines 720 and 770 of the main file, depending on your version of the plugin and such, but you can just do a search for ‘fb_enable_GoogleMaps’ and it should come up.

To automatically set the Google Maps link as well, add another update_post_meta() call underneath the one in that code above, like this:

// Set the event's map status if global setting is enabled
if( tribe_get_option('fb_enable_GoogleMaps') ) {
    update_post_meta( $event_id, '_EventShowMap', true );
    update_post_meta( $event_id, '_EventShowMapLink', true );
}

Then, save the file and try importing – it should work fine for you!

Let us know if this helps!

George

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