[Jim]

Hi George,

This could be it; and I may have discovered my title description wasn’t quite accurate. :\ . I had been testing for multiple errors and described this one poorly.

Add an organizer or venue with no name and it is saved as “Unnamed Organizer” or “Unnamed Venue”. This should be prevented by requiring a name be input if other editable org/venue data fields are not null. Multiple “Unnamed Organizer” or “Unnamed Venue” items may be created. Perhaps unlimited venues and organizers.

Something in TEC is producing those names from somewhere, and without validation/testing.

[Jim]

Hi George,
We just went live so there are many priorities, but I’m working through testing scenarios and will update this thread.

[Jim]

Hi Nico,

Reinstallation did not change the result.
The defaults for organizer and venue are both “No default”.

The message does not appear immediately; floats to the right of the input field:

[Jim]

Hi Brian,

Thansk for the code snippet, which is currently active, with DESC sort. However, the sort in the blog is supposed to be using the posted date, not the event date. (Events in the list widget and events page are DESC by (next) event date.)

These are all events, with date info as they appear down the blog page:
From the first page of the blog at http://www.jimtovey.ca/news/
From the event page at http://www.jimtovey.ca/events/

InterGenerational Art Event
Posted 10/13
Event 11/21

Halloween Haunted House
Posted 10/16
Event 10/31

Cultural Walking Tour
Posted 10/6
Event 10/31

Dixie Road Reconfiguration
Posted 10/14
Event 10/27

Port Credit Art Tour
Posted 10/5
Event 10/24

Port Credit BIA Opening
Posted 10/14
Event 10/22

Less Is More Art Exhibit
Posted 10/13
Event 10/18

Also, “Intended to works with ECP 3.12.x, may need to be revised for other releases.” is a bit troubling.

[Jim]

Hi Brian,

I see that this now allows the correct ordering in the blog loop.

However, this introduces another unacceptable problem of equal magnitude where *every* occurrence of *every* recurring event appears in the blog – and each with the same posting date.

Consider posting a weekly recurring seasonal event with a typical ~12 occurrences. This inserts 12 sequential posts into the blog, separating regular content by at least 2 *pages* of the *same* event with the *same* event date. It looks like event spam and drives away readers. For a site with multiples of recurring events it overwhelms the blog and makes the Pro plugin rather useless for recurring events.

So neither option is a solution. Really looking forward to finding a proper correction for this.

Thanks,

[Jim]

Hi Nico,

Yes, I tested this with 2014 and no-plugins.

Settings? Here’s the community events settings page.

You should probably also know that I’m experiencing another problem with Community submissions:

Previously entered event name displayed in lists My Venue, My Organizer

[Jim]

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[Jim]

Hi Brian,
> Can you confirm the snippet is running on your site and active on that page?

er… Sorry! I had actually been required to turn it off to allow other people to test. It is now back and active.

I should also clarify the problem when the snippet is enabled: NO posts appear in the blog, instead “Sorry, no content matched your criteria.” is displayed without any post content of any type.

I disabled all plugins and found that the only active plugin required to recreate the problem is: The Events Calendar Pro 3.12.2. When I disable Pro, the snippet works as expected, mixing the event posts inline with blog posts in descending date order.

[Jim]

Thanks for your reply. The blog page is not a sub page, it also uses the main blog loop. The blog appears on that page as configured in “Dashboard> Settings > Reading > Front page displays > Posts page = <selected page>”. No code is required; no custom template is used.

This is standard WordPress functionality and uses the main query. This is confirmed for Genesis here. (The typical Genesis “blog template” is not used.)

[Jim]

They will appear there but the actual blog page is at the link given previously: http://www.jimtovey.ca/news/

The events are output in the loop along with other blog posts when you select “Include events in main blog loop”. Unfortunately, TEC events are output by event date, meaning any future event is ALWAYS the first item in the blog. Ten future events? your blog starts on page 3 or so.

The other link I referenced (https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/order-events-in-main-blog-loop-by-post-date/) fixes this by outputting event posts by post date. The code provided fails, also as tested with twenty-fourteen and no other plugins. This is the problem – was working up until the slew of recent updates for WP and TEC.

(A suggestion for improvement would be to add this as a user selectable option, right underneath “Include events in main blog loop”.)

[Jim]

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[Jim]

It Core at 3.12.3 and Pro at 3.12.2.

Confirmed

Community is also installed at 3.12.2

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