[Steven W]

Both environments are set to the same time-zone. Again, I’m less concerned about the fact that the two environments are behaving a little differently than I am about the fact that the post-date rather than the event-date is displaying in the Tag Archives default template.

1. Let’s forget about the crash. That occurred after I deactivated the Events Calendar Color plugin without removing some custom color code from the theme’s function.php file. It was throwing a function-not-found error.
2. I deactivated all plugins (except for TEC, of course), switched to the WP Twenty-fifteen theme (as well as Twenty-thirteen and Twenty-fourteen) and did a hard flush of the cache and the issue persisted, although in those default themes, the date didn’t display at all for TEC-generated posts. It did display the date for non-TEC-generated posts, as expected.

Not sure where to go from here…

[Steven W]

Thanks, Geoff. Yes, it answers my question. I’m inclined to give it a go, knowing you all are behind it. This client is on a shared server, but their user-base is quite small (probably fewer than five thousand unique visitors and fewer than forty or fifty simultaneous visitors), so I think it’ll be OK.

Thanks for your honesty. It means a lot.

[Steven W]

As a little more information, here’s a shot of what I get when I click a tag associated with a regular post:
http://screencast.com/t/SpbCgLjQw2ec

And here’s a shot of what I get when I click a tag associated (exclusively) with a TEC post (i.e., event):
http://screencast.com/t/6XkA66Yx

And here’s a shot of what I get with I click a tag associated with both (the TEC post is the first one and the date is the date the post/event was created):
http://screencast.com/t/PaIkc8adu8Je

[Steven W]

OK, so I’ve got some really weird sh stuff going on… I’ve followed the Test for Conflicts procedures, and the results are inconclusive.

Development Box–a Windows 8.1 box running wampserver:
When I switch to Twenty-Thirteen (or -Fourteen or -Fifteen, for that matter), the default WP Tag Archives template doesn’t display any date at all for posts (i.e., events) generated by TEC. It does display the appropriate date for standard posts… I even clicked a tag that I knew was associated with both a standard post and a TEC post, and the standard post had the date while the TEC post did not.

Production Box–hosted on SiteGround, under construction, behind a “Maintenance Mode” screen:
When I click on a tag associated with a standard post, I get a list as expected–with the correct date. When I click on a tag associated with a post generated by TEC, the site crashes and I get a black screen with the page’s html code in it.

I am, of course, more concerned with the production instance working correctly–but it’s pretty weird for the two environments to be behaving differently, since they’ve never behaved differently in the past. Note that this is the first time I’ve tested this particular scenario on either box. At this point, it really seems to be associated with tags associated with TEC (event) posts… I’m not sure about next steps, but experience tells me you all can point me in the right direction.

[Steven W]

OK, so I’m embarrassed… I knew I’d seen an option for doing this, but just overlooked it. This is exactly what I needed. Thanks, Nico!

[Steven W]

No, it’s not what I see. I have the current version of Firefox, running on a Windows 8.1 machine. I don’t think this is worth wasting your time (or mine) on any more. It’s clearly a Firefox/Windows thing and it doesn’t affect TEC functionality (which is great, by the way). Our users probably won’t even notice it, if it even occurs on their machines. It’ll just bug me, and I’m just a mere web developer.

Thanks for your help, and sorry for the trouble!

[Steven W]

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[Steven W]

Hmmm… never mind… I was zooming my browser window out so I could get a screenshot of both the month-view and the mini-calendar widget (which in one case are on the same page) in one shot when I noticed that the borders show up and disappear and even change places depending on the zoom-level I’m at in the browser (Firefox, latest version). In fact, I found zoom-levels both where all the borders appear as they should, and where none of them appear.

Should have done this to begin with, but I then tested same in IE 11 and Chrome (latest version) and found that the problem disappears altogether. So, it’s a Firefox issue. I’m not technical enough to understand why the zoom-level makes the difference, and sure not technical enough to know if there’s anything TEC can do about it from its side (browser-specific css?), but at least I know it’s not specifically a bug in TEC. Is this in fact something that browser-specific css could fix? I’m OK if the answer is “no”, but I’m not the only Firefox user out here, either…

[Steven W]

No worries, Cliff. I’m pretty human most of the time myself! I’d be happy to provide screenshots if only I knew how to do so with your forum system. For the life of me, I can’t see any way to include them. That’s what I really need to do, as this is mostly on a local development machine at the moment. Can you tell me where I’m missing the opportunity to send you screenshots?

[Steven W]

Cliff,
You’re correct that I’m using the Highend-Child theme. However–and as I said in my first post–I have disabled all the other plugins and tested using the Twenty-Fourteen theme and got the same results. After your reply, I went back and tested using the Twenty-Fifteen theme, and got almost the same results… By “almost”, I mean that with the Twenty-Fifteen theme, the columns lacking the vertical border changed–from Monday-Tuesday to Wednesday-Thursday… The border still went missing, but changed to a different place. And actually, with the Twenty-Fifteen theme, the left-hand vertical border of the whole month-view calendar went missing as well. So in that respect, the problem got worse.

I’m not an expert by any means, but I believe the testing I’ve done (and documented here) suggests that it’s something with TEC. I get the same basic results with three different themes–two of which are WordPress-supplied themes. Would you mind taking another look at this? I’m not really trying to “customize” here… I just want the calendar table structure to render its borders the way I believe it is meant to render them.
thanks

[Steven W]

Thanks, Brook! Exactly what I needed. Just gave you all a 5-star on the WP forum. Y’all earned it today!

[Steven W]

That worked perfectly, Brook. Y’all are the best! Thanks!

[Steven W]

A pleasure to work with someone who seems to really care about good support and quality product!

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