[hikeitbaby]

Hi Hunter,

Unfortunately, your links there don’t help because the problem we are specifically encountering is on THE BACKEND, not the front-end of the site, which is where caching solutions and limiting the data displayed comes into play.

So the question then becomes, what are the data limitations of The Events Calendar Pro? Is it recommended only for uses up to XXXX events, XXXX locations, XXXX organizers? I understand that we are in the minority of your customers who use the tool for such a large calendar, but it’s your responsibility to be upfront about AT WHAT POINT SHOULD POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS OF TEC LOOK FOR ANOTHER TOOL, something more enterprise? Having this stated somewhere explicitly would improve your brand’s reputation. I’ve reached out personally to other members of the forum who were having these type of issues, and they’ve sadly said that they’ve all had to move on to other software. We would like to know whether this is the route we need to do rather than spending any additional thousands of dollars and weeks of development getting TEC to work for us.

I’m not trying to complain, we’re just at a cross roads and need some solid answers.

Thank you.

[hikeitbaby]

Thank you Andras. I appreciate your help here and I hope our conversation helps with the development of this great tool.

[hikeitbaby]

Well if “the timezone is not taken from the Venue / Event Location for sure” then the option of “Use local timezones for each event” might better be worded as “Use manually entered timezones for each event”. Just sayin’, that part about ‘local’ implies some things I don’t think it’s supposed to.

You’re right, once I revert to the basic Twenty Sixteen theme and confirm my sitewide settings, I’m getting Los Angeles showing up in the CE form.

As a sidenote, It’d be great if instead of having these cities, the WP timezone array included PST, Eastern Standard, etc. Do you know any way to over-ride those so we give our users a much smaller set of options. Trying to find a city in your timezone can be a little time consuming.

[hikeitbaby]

Hi Andras,

You’re right, I forgot to include the invoction. I’ve added a css rule so the sidebar category menu item is hidden as well, though I still think using CSS as a hack shouldn’t be a long term solution for a robust platform as yours and I hoping you’ll add a proper capability in future releases.

function my_custom_admin_styles() {
  echo '<style>
    body.editor #tribe_events_catdiv {
     display:none;
    }
    body.editor li#menu-posts-tribe_events ul.wp-submenu li:nth-of-type(4) {
     display: none;
    }
  </style>';
}
add_action( 'admin_head', 'my_custom_admin_styles' );

[hikeitbaby]

Hi Geoff,

Looking over the CSV import process I certainly see that we can map columns in our CSV imports into Event Calendar fields “Venue Longtitude” and “Venue Latitude”. I guess I’m still a little confused as to why the C.E. can’t leave the street address fields blank if there is a Venue Longtitude and Venue Latitude fields we can map with the import. Is the CE entry process really that different?

I noticed an organization similar to us using the Events Manager plugin over here: http://nationaltrailsday.americanhiking.org/add-event/
Seems like with the EM you can drag and drop the google map pin, and it saves the GPS location data. Just thought I’d point that out to your devs.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by hikeitbaby.

[hikeitbaby]

it’s a wonky hack, but if while on the backend the user’s role was output as a class on the body element, then I could at least hide the “add new category” meta box option by targeting it as body.editor #tribe_events_cat-adder { display:none;}

Problem is that the sidebar event categories menu option is still visible.

The code to add to the theme functions.php looks like this:

/// Add user role class to front-end body tag
function class_to_body($classes) {
	global $current_user;
	$user_role = array_shift($current_user->roles);
	$classes[] = $user_role.' ';
	return $classes;
}

/// Add user role class and user id to front-end body tag

	// add 'class-name' to the $classes array	
function class_to_body_admin($classes) {
	global $current_user;
	$user_role = array_shift($current_user->roles);
	/* Adds the user id to the admin body class array */
	$user_ID = $current_user->ID;	
	$classes .= $user_role.' '.'user-id-'.$user_ID ;
	return $classes;
	return 'user-id-'.$user_ID;	
}

add_filter('body_class','class_to_body');
add_filter('admin_body_class', 'class_to_body_admin');

function my_custom_admin_styles() {
  echo '<style>
body.editor #tribe_events_cat-adder {
	display:none;
}
  </style>';
}

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by hikeitbaby.

[hikeitbaby]

Hi Geoff,

We’ve been hard at work over at HikeItBaby.com. Got some new developers at 7/Apps who we are now working with us. Trying lots of ways to wrangle the 10,000 hikes we have at once, using ElasticSearch. Some success but lots of complications. You can see on our seriously modified CE page https://hikeitbaby.com/find-a-hike/submit-a-hike/ how we have an address picker for people to find the GPS through a map picker. We’re helping out another organization do something similar, but they want those fields to be publicly visible first. I’ve made a feature request for that.

Thanks for being straight up about that there isn’t anything just like a function _form_gps() that we could drop in to a modified CE template.

[hikeitbaby]

Clocking everything back to the previous version of the plugin seemed to solve temporarily the Month view display for iOS users, but we are now experiencing 502 Bad Gateway errors when users try to submit information for the calendar as well as extreme slowness in the responsiveness to the plugin for both submission and viewing of the data. Are these known issues to this version of the plugin set?

Errors have been reported multiple times a day by users across the spectrum of browser set up and platform (iOS/Win Chrome/IE/Safari, Mobile and Desktop systems) and it’s impacting the functionality of the website overall. Thank you.

[hikeitbaby]

Ok, I have the individual plug in information downloaded in the older format, but as I’m handling this while the main site programmer is away can you please tell me where are the events hosted on the main WordPress site so I can backup that specific folder(s) prior to deleting the new upgraded plug in? I’m a bit nervous at the information you provided that “data will not be lost” yet the deactivate and delete screens on the WordPress backbone itself state that data will be deleted. This data is critical to remain intact during this downgrading process. I’ve handled manual updates/downgrades of plugins before, but not with this much sensitive data on the server.

[hikeitbaby]

Does this download of the previous version plug in also cover the fact we are utilizing several add-ons to the main plug in as all of them were upgraded to version 3.10? We are utilizing community hikes, filter bar as well as the PRO add-on to the main plug-in on the website. I do not want to start the downgrading process until I’m certain all components will survive the transfer back to the previous fully functional version. Thank you!

[hikeitbaby]

I had someone help me with the updating of all. I would have no idea how to downgrade. Can I somehow get help with that or pay someone. The guy helping me isn’t available. HELP! I am in a bad place as the calendar is the number one viewed thing in our site so it’s pretty critical.

[hikeitbaby]

Got it I think we are good now. Thanks!

[hikeitbaby]

THIS IS URGENT by the way. We can’t run our site without this and this is the most important tool of our site. We are 100% dependent on this so please get back to me when you can. We have 3,000 people a day counting on this calendar.

[hikeitbaby]

So on our back end when we go to “edit hikes” AKA events we used to have a filter system to be able to quickly find them. They are no longer. CAn you get in the back end and look for where they went?

[hikeitbaby]

It was the Events Calendar Widget and the issue occurred when no category filter was set.

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