[Nicolas]

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[Nicolas]

Ok, I managed to delete the tables using an SQL command. However, I trust this issue deserves particular attention, as this may happen again. The main question is: “how is it possible that an event started replicating itself, and literally goes out of hand?”

Thx

[Nicolas]

I managed to delete the instances created in the table, by launching an SQL command that deleted more than 22,000 meta_ids and there content. But I want to prevent this issue from happening again. Since this happened only with one event in particular, if I completely delete the event & the venue, this should theoretically solve the problem. What is your opinion regarding this issue? This is the kind of serious problem that should not happen, but still it occurred.

Now, my site is back online, and I could access wp-admin. I checked the “Events” tab, and the event I thought I had deleted in PHPmyadmin, is still visible in the table (More than 12,000). How can I bulk delete events now? I don’t want to do it from my WP admin, because it would literally take ages, and when I bulk delete events via my WP admins, it breaks my site (500 internal error). An alternative would be welcome.

I hope to read from you very soon on this issue.

Thx

[Nicolas]

I deactivated the plugin, but a script is still running. New instances of this event are created avery seconds!!!!! My database will be soon running out of space

[Nicolas]

Hi Hunter,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! However, I’m not yet that knowledgeable with CSS… would you have an extra tip to give me on how to solve this? I tried and tweaked the above CSS snippet, but I did not achieve anything conclusive…

Cheers!

[Nicolas]

Hi Andras,

Thank your for your (super detailed!) answer: that helped me a lot.

I followed your advice and tweaked the code you provided me with (to increase content width on page), so the snippet would apply only to the page where the calendar is featured (and would therefore not impact the listing page). This is what the final code looks like:

.post-type-archive-tribe_events .entry-content {
  max-width: 1080px; /* this will define the width */
}
.events-list .tribe-events-loop {
max-width: 100% !important;
}

It seems to be working fine so far.

Now, regarding the code used to properly have text wrapped around the event’s images (instead of below the image), it worked too! All screen above 1200px display the snippet, while smaller screens stick to the original css. What’s funny though, is that this snippet only works on mobiles; if I test it from my desktop on a browser’s window the size of my mobile screen, it takes into account the original size of my desktop screen and does not display the optimal view for mobiles.

Anyway, your advices helped me patch my website 🙂 I hope the next update won’t break everything.

Have a great day!

[Nicolas]

Hi Hunter,

Thanks for getting back to me, I really appreciate.

I think you’re right, that my some custom CSS is needed to overwrite what my theme’s code is doing. Since I’m not that knowledgeable (yet) about customizing CSS, I’d very much need your help with that one. The idea would be to write a CSS snippet so the nav buttons show on smaller screens (smartphones & tablets).

Thanks again for your help, and if I can myself be of any assistance to you for the resolution of this issue, please shout.

Have a great day, and I look forward to your answer.

Cheers!

[Nicolas]

Hi Andras,

Following on the reply I posted yesterday, here is a tiny “bug” I identified when using the CSS snippet to make the whole content wider

.page .entry-content {
max-width: 1080px; /* this will define the width */
}
.events-list .tribe-events-loop {
max-width: 100% !important;
}

When the above snippet is implemented in the theme’s CSS, theme breaks on some pages: http://www.fleamapket.com/listable/listings/

but not on taxonomies-based pages (tags, categories or regions):
http://www.fleamapket.com/listable/listing-region/asia/

Is it possible to define in the CSS snippet, which pages should be excluded (or the pages for which this snippet applies)? ex: “css snippet only applies to TheEventCalendar page”

Thanks for your answer!

[Nicolas]

Hi Andras,

Wow, thank you SO MUCH! I really, really appreciate you taking the time to answer my query + suggest some tips to make my website look even better (making content wider). As a matter of facts, a month ago I asked a question about how to make content wider, and I was told that this was not possible 🙁 But really glad to see that you spontaneously suggested it!

I’ve implemented both CSS tweaks, and here’s my feedback:

.tribe-events-list .tribe-events-event-image {
width: 30%;
}
.tribe-events-list .tribe-events-event-image + div.tribe-events-content {
width: 67%;
}

When implemented, this CSS snippet solves the problem I was having on desktops. However on mobile, content appear super small and justified left (see image “content_small_and_justified_left.png”) vs. when CSS snippet is not implemented (see image “no_modif_to_CSS.png”).

The cool thing, is that when I implement ONLY the CSS snippet below (to make whole content wider), it solves the text/image wrapping issue I was having. I don’t even have to implement the CSS snippet above.

.page .entry-content {
max-width: 1080px; /* this will define the width */
}
.events-list .tribe-events-loop {
max-width: 100% !important;
}

but then, if I only use this CSS snippet, some images appear super big on desktop (see image “desktop_bug.jpg”). This issue goes away on desktops if I use both CSS snippets you kindly gave me. But once again, if I use both snippets, I have this issue on mobiles (see image “content_small_and_justified_left.png”).

I think we’re heading in the right direction 🙂 But if you have any advice to solve this smartphone bug or this desktop image size bug, this would be awesome 🙂

Thanks again for all your help!

PS: one other bug I noted on smartphones, is that nav buttons located at the bottom of each page, appear super thin; you can’t almost see them (see image: “super_small_browsing_buttons.png”). Any idea if some css snippet could solve this bug?

[Nicolas]

Hi Josh,

Just applied the code to my Child Theme CSS file, and everything is back in order 🙂

body .tribe-events-list .tribe-events-event-image+div.tribe-events-content {
width: 60%;
}

Thanks for the assistance!

Cheers,
Nick

[Nicolas]

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[Nicolas]

I found a way around to remove duplicates via phpmyadmin. I noticed that all duplicates were created AFTER all events had been created in mysql. Ex: All original events have IDs 2001 – 2472 and all duplicates have IDs 2473 – 2945.
Therefore, /event/dinner-in-paris/ has ID 2001, while /event/dinner-in-paris-2/ has ID 2473 (I thought duplicate would be an immediate consecutive number).

So this means that during the import phase there was a bug that triggered (maybe) a re-initialisation of the upload process, therefore created duplicate entries (program rather creates a duplicate that delete an identical entry). I did not have that many events to upload (only 472). I understand that upload bug can happen with thousands of entries. But with only a few hundreds?

It would be nonetheless interesting to investigate this issue more in details.

[Nicolas]

Thanks Brian, this worked perfectly; I managed to import the list of Venues (using the WP “import” feature, as Tribe Event’s import feature missed some import fields), and all venues have been create properly.

I’m gonna report another issue in a new thread, as when I imported my list of events (after venues were imported), it created duplicates for each events. Url appeared as /event/my-special-event/all/ and /event/my-special-event-2/all/

Thanks!

[Nicolas]

I noticed that the issue described in my previous thread is caused by the fact that all my venues are imported under a same post ID (1231), instead of a different post ID per each venue/entry. However, the import feature does not seem to include any “ID” field, which seems to cause the above mentioned problem.

[Nicolas]

Very tricky indeed, but worst of all, this convoluted way around does not work. I’ve tested it for an event that takes place once a year between 2016 and 2022.

In my example, first day of event is 2016-03-25 and last day 2016-03-28.
Recurrences:
An event every 1 year(s) in April on the second Friday that lasts 3 day(s) and 8.99 hour(s), the last of which will begin on 2017-04-18
An event every 1 year(s) in March on the last Friday that lasts 3 day(s) and 8.99 hour(s), the last of which will begin on 2018-04-03
An event every 1 year(s) in April on the third Friday that lasts 3 day(s) and 8.99 hour(s), the last of which will begin on 2019-04-23
An event every 1 year(s) in April on the second Friday that lasts 3 day(s) and 8.99 hour(s), the last of which will begin on 2020-04-14

and so on…

What happens with this convoluted solution is that all the above events accumulate over the sole year of 2016, and not once a year between 2016 and 2020!
Instead of having an event that takes place once a year (starts 2016) and recurs every year until 2020, I have a succession of events that spread from 2016-03-25 and then every week end of April 2016 (2016-04-18, 2016-04-03, 2016-04-23, 2016-04-14).

I’ve literally lost a day working on this issue, and haven’t been able to find a solution, when a recurrence by date-range feature would be the most OBVIOUS and easiest way around.

Without a recurrence by date-range feature, the pro version of the plugin is useless to me, as I anyway have to create individual recurrences myself for each year (one recurrence = create a copy of the same event).

Other calendar plugin like http://wpsleek.com/blog/2014/09/11/pro-event-calendar-demo/ offer the recurrence by date-range feature + map for $23.

I truly expected more from an $80 plugin. Apparently, I was wrong.

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