[Bob]

“Front end” means from the Calendar or Events view, and “back end” from the wp-admin pages, correct? If so, yes, that’s it, and thank you, thank you.

In particular, since the “back end view” seems to list the individual instances only if you haven’t filtered or searched, I was having to page through dozens of pages to find the specific instances to delete.

– Doug

[Bob]

Ok, I was able to get individual instances by disabling filters and going to the “all” view, but that’s way painful to find a single instance amongst thousands. (Plus, search didn’t seem to find but one instance of the event either.)

[Bob]

Thanks, Andy. But I don’t have individual events there for the recurring events at all. Only the “master” events.

[Bob]

Could be same issue as this one?

CSS edits needed, default Events Page template interaction with theme

[Bob]

Theme is LivingOS Xi. Forum post there, where they’ve agreed to look into changing their internal CSS ID:
http://themeloom.com/forums/topic/ajax-loading-id-conflict-between-xi-and-plugin/

Our site is http://www.trinityfellowship.net

– Doug

[Bob]

Thinking (and digging) further, I hold you guys less at fault because it appears you don’t actually style that class/ID after all. The theme does. So I’m asking them to consider patching it to prepend a unique prefix to ensure not conflicting with plugins.

Still, you guys might want to consider that approach too so that themes and other plugins can’t break your behaviors either.

[Bob]

I see you’re set up for Option 1 right now, and I tried debugging the CSS (just for kicks), but I’m not seeing it. It’s like there’s a clear in either the sidebar or container/content, but if there is, I can’t find it.

I also wondered about default/implicit styles for maybe the aside or dl’s, but I haven’t found anything about that either.

[Bob]

Yeah, fixed with
h5.tribe-events-event-title { text-shadow: none; }

FWIW, totally intended as constructive criticism, that process of looking at the styles live (in like Firebug or browser Web Developer Tools), noticing the need for an unminified version, then tracking down the root style… that’s what I hope for from great technical support. Lower-impact debugging than some of the blunter tools like switching themes. Especially for an active site. I’m a web developer myself (just not a PHP or WordPress one), and I have to do those kinds of things regularly.

Thanks,
– Doug

[Bob]

Sure, I understand we need to be willing to do some things to isolate the problem. Just certain things should be a last resort.

For starters, you can see with a browser debugger whether we have any styles that override the default ones. But I can see I need to disable our CSS minify to track that correctly. Doing that, I’m able to see there’s a 2px white text-shadow coming from, I think, our theme’s default CSS. Will have to track that down.

I’ve never worked with such layered CSS before. Raises a whole set of problems with global namespace.

[Bob]

Resolved by deleting and recreating event. Will open another thread if problem recurs.

– Doug

[Bob]

Thanks, Rob, and I understand. Just myself and one of the other admins are IT people ourselves and extra cautious about such matters.

– Doug (Bob registered the plugin, but I do most of the work, so I’ve been the one posting)

[Bob]

First, for the record, I’ve been posting as “Bob” because he’s the one who registered the plugin, but I’m actually Doug. I’d have said something up front if I’d realized I was going to be here so often 🙂

We actually had this problem back when we were trying out the free version, so before we’d made any customizations at all. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-the-events-calendar-404-error-on-event-details
We do have a custom theme (Theme Loom LivingOS Xi), and we’re making extensive use of it, with a child theme and custom templates, so switching to another theme would be quite disruptive. Perhaps late one night I can give that a shot, but, for instance, even our /events page uses a custom template.

Haven’t tried disabling other plugins.

Site is http://www.trinityfellowship.net

[Bob]

Slightly cleaner (missed an existing variable I should have reused)

http://pastebin.com/jg2hr5yz

[Bob]

Sorry, trying to decide whether I can to give somebody outside such access. Have to get agreement from the rest of the folks. Definitely want to resolve it, but contemplating even trying deleting and recreating the recurring event.

[Bob]

1. Add a vote for indefinite recurring events.
2. Easier deletion of a single instance of a recurring event.
3. Specifying certain event categories to include or exclude in the Calendar widget. I just started looking into customizing a widget to do this myself, but since it’s all new to me, it’s going to be painful 🙂

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