@Martin
You took the words right out of my keyboard! We too were expecting a vast improvement over the standard Events Calendar by upgrading to the “Pro” edition – as it usually happens with other plugins. At a minumum, email contact/support for issues for paying customers should be provided!
Your post came a little too late for us, had we seen it prior to forking over the $89 bucks, we would not have purchased it. I have not written a plugin review yet, but it will be a scathing one!
Many features from our template are not working, sidebar gone, header image also, Social Sharing (even though checked) doesn’t appear, so it is not at all effective for broadcasting across our networks or for people to share our events.
Having to post to a forum, hoping that a kind soul has had a similar unpleasant experience and is kind enough to share a fix, is asinine thinking or just plain laziness on the part of the developers!
I hope others see this and think twice before buying something that has no upside value to the free version of the plugin!