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I did have a crashed site two days ago from using just the “Tim” tutorial, not having discovered all this later information until I, of course, had to. All is well on my site now, though I’m skittish about trying the code fix myself again, given that we are expecting Community Events late 2011, and it’s late 2011. The thing I wonder, though, is whether the people who know Tim might suggest some warning or explanatory language be added at the top of his tutorial. Might have saved me about 36 pretty uncomfortable hours.
And Yea for the coming Community Events capacity!
Question from a non-techie: In Thesis Theme, which (probably like others) includes custom files for css and php that are sustained during updates, could css changes for the widget be stored in the custom css file?
@Nick, I would love to have that code, if a mostly non-techie can figure out where to drop it in and make it work. On November 30, I realized I could not show the widget coolness to a client because their event would not show up there until the next month, available only by “View All.” Will you need an email address, if sharing is going to happen?
More happiness than I can say, with a source I can’t imagine: everything is back in place two days after the debacle. Every event, organizer, venue, category. Inexplicable, and I’ll take it.
I had a gruesome experience yesterday, losing a full day of populating my prized new Local Food Calendar at http://www.savoringkentucky.com. The problems came when I began trying to implement a front-side form so people can submit their own items for the food calendar. It’s a long story, after trying to follow the Creative Slice tutorial, I ended up with 505 errors and a completely blank white page instead of a website. The 505 error appeared when I tried inserting the offered code in the custom_function.php file of the Thesis Theme. There was no stepping back one step and recovering – tried that. I had to reset to the previous night’s save, losing all my wonderful new calendar entries, about four hours’ worth.
So – now my question is, should a person who knows only enough to copy and paste and follow instructions closely NOT try to set up forms that blog users can complete? Although the tutorial was clear, I’m guessing it (1) wasn’t exactly applicable to ECP 2.0.1, and (2) may not have been compatible with some plugins I am using, though I don’t know which. But beyond that – am I going to need to really understand php in order to get this to work myself? Does anyone know whether purchasing Gravity Forms’ developer version instead of personal (which is what I presently have) would make enough support available to walk me through these kinds of rather dire situations?
I am using Thesis 1.8 on WordPress 3.2.1, Mac 10.6.8, Gravity Forms 1.6.1, Event Calendar Pro 2.0.1. When I turned on my computer this morning I had a message that a secondary Gravity Forms plugin, Gravity Forms [Plus] Custom Post Types had been deleted because of a problem.
Shane and Rob,
I replied by email to Shane’s earlier message instead of using this interface, and then missed Shane’s return message yesterday about taking the widget down. At this point, fearing I might lose the items already in the calendar if deactivate the widget, I’ll leave it there and hope for early help Monday. A key point: the widget worked at first. It is on every page of my site except the handful that have no sidebars.
