[Victor Levy]

Hi Victor,

If the images do not make it in the email, they can be seen here: http://levysr.us/vShjkG3rhyCzqXU/

Thanks for your notification that the problem is fixed with seeing extra events when saving recurring events. In my staging environment I have verified the fix, but at the moment I am unsuccessful due to a separate problem. The issue is that my “Additional CSS” is intending to disable viewing of the list-date control in my advanced list widget, but the list-date control is nevertheless appearing in the staging environment. Below (and at http://levysr.us/vShjkG3rhyCzqXU/site_compare.png) you can see the correct production environment on the left and the incorrect staging environment on the right. Below that (and at http://levysr.us/vShjkG3rhyCzqXU/css_problem_devtools.PNG) you can see the Chrome DevTools inspector, which for production is showing the CSS override happening correctly but for staging is showing the additional CSS below and not preempting the Tribe CSS. If this is not easy to solve, I’ll open a new thread in the support site. For completeness, here is all of the contents in my Dashboard/Appearance/Customize/Additional CSS:

/*

Prevents the calendar icon from appearing in the UPCOMING EVENTS widget

*/

.tribe-events-adv-list-widget .list-date {

display:none;

}

/*

Prevents the Ribosome credits from appearing in the footer

*/

.credits-right {

display:none;

}

/*

Allows word wrap with pre-formatted text, e.g., copyright.

*/

pre {

white-space: pre-wrap;

}

[Victor Levy]

I have a similar problem with recurring events, and it seems to be related to covering multiple months. If I create an event on January 30 2019 starting at 8 am with ‘once’-recurring events on January 31 at 9 am and February 1 at 10 am, I end up with four events, including an extra event on January 30 at 10 am. Then, in the editing page, I cannot edit the details of my final ‘once’-recurring event. You can see the whole sequence at in the GIF at this link:

http://www.levysr.us/FRT9Q9xlR8Hapaf/spanning_jan_feb.gif

[Victor Levy]

Hi Victor, for the time being I am solving the problem using a SQL insert. I’m importing the event as the “additional” field which I have named external_image_url, and from that inserting the ‘fifu_image_url’ custom field.

`/* Delete any existing custom external-image fields that may have been manually inserted into my imported drafts */
DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_id IN (
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT m.meta_id
FROM wp_posts event
INNER JOIN wp_postmeta m ON m.post_id = event.id
WHERE event.post_type = ‘tribe_events’
AND event.post_status = ‘draft’
AND m.meta_key = ‘fifu_image_url’) temp_table
);

/* Insert a fifu_image_url custom field in any imported draft having the _ecp_custom_3 (external_image_url) “additional” field */
INSERT INTO wp_postmeta (post_id, meta_key, meta_value) (
SELECT m.post_id, ‘fifu_image_url’, m.meta_value
FROM wp_posts event
INNER JOIN wp_postmeta m ON m.post_id = event.id
WHERE event.post_type = ‘tribe_events’
AND event.post_status = ‘draft’
AND m.meta_key = ‘_ecp_custom_3’
)`

This works in my staging environment, but is probably not portable to my production environment without checking the ‘_ecp_custom_3’ name, because I have not yet found out is how EC Pro is linking the ‘_ecp_custom_3’ meta_key in wp_postmeta to the ‘external_image_url’ name. (_ecp_custom_3 is also found in _tribe_modified_fields.) I haven’t spotted any field in the database containing the name of my additional field which I have named ‘external_image_url’.

Possibly you can help with this? Summarizing, where is EC Pro linking the name I have given my additional field, ‘external_image_url’, to the name it has auto-generated for it, ‘_ecp_custom_3’?

Thanks, Vic

[Victor Levy]

Hi Victor, Thanks for looking carefully at the screen shots. You are right that on that one I did not import the field, although I did previously before collecting my screen shots. When I do it once more, I see that the fifu_image_url has been imported as an “Additional event field” but not as a “Custom field.” (Please see the new image.) What I need for the “Featured Image From URL” plugin is a custom field. If use the custom field drop-down to add the fifu_image_url field, it is accepted and I see my image. Is that possible to do using the importer?

Thanks, Vic

[Victor Levy]

I believe I have found a solution to this problem, from this link at Stackoverflow and this link at Bitnami . (I use a Bitnami WordPress instance and so I had to adapt the Stackoverflow advice to use with Bitnami.) On the Bitnami page, you have to look for the section titled, “How to access my application from only one domain?” Even then, just copying and pasting did not work; my solution is my own adaptation.

How to redirect other domains to https://www.mysite.net

Bitnami does not use Apache’s .htaccess file. To edit the file doing redirection, run this command to edit the correct configuration file:
sudo vi /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf

Above the bottom of the section under “<VirtualHost _default_:443>” add the following text. What this does is establish a rule saying, “for any page request that does not start with http://www.mysite.net, redirect to the identical page at https://www.mysite.net and tell the browsers (and Google) that this is a permanent relocation.”

  # Redirect to https://www.mysite.net
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.net$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.net$1 [R=permanent,L]

The above redirects any page requests not under http://www.mysite.net, for example:
https://mysite.info/event/my-event/

to:
https://www.mysite.net/event/my-event/

After editing bitnami.conf, restart apache:
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache;

Now I hope to see the end of out-of-install warnings, and also that Google will correctly index only the .net domain. I hope this reply will help other Events Calendar users in the same situation.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Victor Levy. Reason: Typo and formatting

[Victor Levy]

Hi Courtney,

The troubleshooting steps you are recommending, when I have done them previously, always cause the warning to disappear. Still, I would have followed them except that when I logged in just now the warning had already disappeared. So I will have to reply in the future when the warning appears again. At that time I’ll also upload my latest system info.

Thanks, Vic

[Victor Levy]

Every event-related admin page on my main site now says my license key is invalid (picture of a capybara), but when I log in to my license maintenance page on theeventscalendar.com, I see that I have a valid license for my real size, pianyc.net.

“It looks like you’re using The Events Calendar PRO, but the license key is invalid. Please download the latest version from your account. You can always check the status of your licenses by logging in to your account on theeventscalendar.com.”

Can you please let me know what impact this condition has on my ability to create events or on my users’ ability to use my site? Can I ignore this warning? Up to now, when I have seen the capybara warning I have been going to Events/Settings/Licenses/Save Changes, which always makes the warning go away.

Thank you.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Victor Levy.

[Victor Levy]

Thanks Courtney, the .info site does not really exist. The only sites that exist are mysite.net and, occasionally, staging.mysite.net. The way the .info site appears to exist is that I registered the .info domain with GoDaddy, and I have set up my ‘A’ DNS record on the .info site to forward hits automatically to the .net site. This is also true of .com and .org. My intention was for hits on the alternate domains to redirect properly to the official site at .net. But instead, what is happening is that browsers are retaining the .info domain, and this is even when clicking around in my site!

I can see that Google is indexing the alternate domains, and users are clicking on the alternate sites via Google searches for the events my site hosts. I am reluctant to stop the forwarding, due to the Google indexing (users clicking on Google hits on the alternate sites will be landing on a 404), but I will discontinue it if this is messing up my ECP licensing.

[Victor Levy]

Thanks Courtney, on the staging site, I disabled all other plugins and installed the Twenty Seventeen theme. Then I observed the map view working normally. So I enabled all of the plugins one by one, reenabled my Ribosome theme, and each time observed the map view working normally. So then I upgraded the ECP and EC plugins in my production site, and again I observed the map view working normally. So the only explanations I can think of are that the problem must have been transient, based on one or more events that are no longer being displayed due to the new date, or that disabling and reenabling the plugins corrected the issue.

Best regards, Vic

[Victor Levy]

Thanks Courtney, I have not configured my license key to be active on pianyc.info. I have only ever configured it to be active on pianyc.net and staging.pianyc.net. But I have frequently removed the third license from the license management page. Is the third license being automatically assigned as users navigate to pianyc.info or one of the other aliased sites? I am hoping that by finding out how the third license is being assigned, I can stop it from happening, and also stop the large image of the capybara with the message that my license if out of installs when in fact it means only that I have used all of the installs included in my license.

Best regards, Vic

[Victor Levy]

In order to restore the map view feature, I am swapping the main and staging sites. So the staging site will have the “embarrassing” error and not the main site. This swap should be complete in about 20 minutes, i.e., by Sat Aug 26 22:30:00 2017 UTC.

[Victor Levy]

I have spun up the staging site with the AWS backup I made before upgrading ECP from 4.4.15 to 4.4.16. Map view seems to work fine there. Full disclosure: When I upgraded ECP I also upgraded three other plugins.

[Victor Levy]

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[Victor Levy]

Hi Barry, thanks for your attention. What I am trying to do is find a way for my users to get real value from the links that the events calendar places in my event listings, especially those created by the tags I have placed in them. What would be ideal (and I guess for that reason I sort of expected) would be if a user clicked a tag in one event, they would see other events with that tag in a format that is useful for someone looking for events, i.e., the same as my events page but filtered on the clicked tag. Instead, they see a list of posts starting with the most far into the future (which is the opposite direction of an events listing), and in a format that is alien to those looking at my events page and missing essential events fields like date, venue and price. It largely defeats the usefulness of adding hyperlinks to tags if they lead to a page that is not useful to my users.

Predicting a referral to the filter bar, I can see the filter bar being helpful to power users, and why its use would be recommended by Modern Tribe because it is a revenue source. But it doubles my investment while adding a more complicated, time-consuming and error-prone interface than clicking a link on what my user has already identified as a valuable filter, and arriving at a helpful page.

To answer your question about how I came across the URL format, my forum search prior to posting this question led to a previous feature request, which I upvoted to 1 and commented on, and which contains the URL formats you are asking about. I was hoping that I could leverage that format to come up with any URL that my social media followers could follow and see a tag-filtered link (no filter-bar search required); it works for page 1 but breaks down when my user clicks Next Events.

Thanks, Vic

[Victor Levy]

Thanks for your reply Geoff. I did not change any settings I know of that may have caused it to fail, but I cannot get it to fail now either. However, I have hidden the location search on the production site because apparently the search radius used is large enough that any event in the New York area is considered “near” every other one. So I could rename my post to be “Near” location search returns all listings.

All the best, Vic

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