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Dear Cliff,
I found a much easier solution. I noticed that Facebook was picking up the featured image and description from the first two events on the calendar page. It took the text from the first event, but the picture on that wasn’t big enough for them, so they took the picture from the second event on the page. So I created a new event with an earlier start date, a distant end date and a big picture. Then I used Yoast to set the Facebook text and description. Sure enough, when I scraped the page, my new first event came up with the correct picture and description. Problem solved!! Yay!!Thanks for your help with this.
MarthaDear Cliff,
Thanks so much! This worked great for the og:image. How would I add in the og:description field.Martha
I did several more tests tonight but could not get the site to work. I created another test site and tried disabling the plugins. I also tried disabling the calendar modifications I made in my child theme, but nothing brought the photo display back. As I mentioned in a previous thread, I was having a problem in All Events view with the listings overlapping each other vertically. I believe this problem started when I upgraded to the latest versions of Event Calendar on Feb 6.
I have a back-up version of the website from Feb 6 when it was working, but about 30 events from community members were added in the past week. Luckily those events don’t seem to be damaged, and they seem to be in the current MySQL database. Even in the crashed calendar, if I put the calendar in “List” mode instead of “Photo” mode, I can see the events, but they are not formatted properly. I can click on individual events and they also display, but they are not formatted properly either.
To recap the problem:
When I am in Photo mode, no events display on the All Events page.
When I am in List mode, the events display on the All Events page but the text is not formatted properly.
When I go to a single event, the photo and text display, but the text is not formatted properly and Google maps are not showing up.What is the fastest way to get my calendar working again? Is there a file that controls the display in Photo Mode that I could simply re-install? Or do I have to reload a site from a backup. I have never had to re-load before, and since I just crashed my calendar doing a download, and I not feeling very confident about uploading. If I use the backup from Feb 6, is there some way to link in my current MySQL database so that I don’t have to re-enter the 30 new events manually?
Please keep in mind that I have had no formal training in computer programming. I am completely self-taught and so there are huge gaps in my understanding. I am extremely frustrated at this point since I have now spent the better part of two weekends fixing calendar problems. It really seems like every time I install one of your upgrades, something new breaks. It is really, really discouraging.
One more thing I just noticed – if I go to list mode or map mode, the events show up, but the page is not formatted properly. But in Photo mode, nothing shows up. Is there a way to hide the calendar for now?
I just noticed that if I refresh the screen, the overlaps disappear. So they only seem to happen when I am browsing from page to page using the arrows at the bottom of the page that say “Next Events” or “Previous Events.”
