Your current problems with Events-Calendar
Looking at a malfunction with Events Calendar on the site of Joshua, I realized a fact that may affect many of you.
What happened?
Joshua told me access to the site because the display in the large calendar is not correct. Indeed, navigation month to month is impossible, the events created are not displayed and of course no tooltips associated.
After downloading the site on my computer I could make all the tests that I wanted. And it’s this that I realized that it was still a problem of conflict between plugins. But here I could put my finger on the heart of the problem.
What is it?
On the site of Joshua, Events Calendar lives with plugins ‘Flikr-tag‘ and ‘Wp Forum‘. These plugins are based on the javascript libraries ‘prototype‘ and ‘scriptaculous‘. Moreover, the theme used by the site, Aspire, load javascript too, with jQuery and script.js.
The problem is the method of loading these libraries by these plugins and the theme.
What is the right method?
Normally, in accordance with the procedures with Wordpress, and are respected by Event Calendar I want to say it, loading a library by a plugin must follow simple rules:
- The code should be indicated in a function that is dedicated loading and conflict management. For example, to the library ‘bgiframe’:
wp_enqueue_script('jquerybgiframe', '/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar/js/jquery.bgiframe.js', array('jquery'), '2.1');
With:
wp_enqueue_script: the name of the function that will place the code loading XHTML.
jquerybgiframe: the name of the library which will verify that the file has not already been asked by another player.
/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar/js/jquery.bgiframe.js: the path and file name
array ( ‘jquery’): category Bibliothèque
and 2.1: the version of the code
All these functions for each of libraries plugin is necessary wrapped in a function.
For example, with Events-Calendar, it’s: EventsCalendarINIT().
This function will be called by another function provided in Wordpress: add_action().
So we will:
add_action ( 'plugins_loaded', 'EventsCalendarINIT');
Where ‘plugins_loaded‘ is the event (the hook) that will trigger the execution of the function. It is even possible as the third parameter to indicate the order of priority, with 10 default: $priority = 10.
What is the problem?
The problem is that plugins ‘Flikr-tag’, ‘Wp-forum’ and the theme ‘Aspire’, they carry their scripts in other ways, rather ‘old’. For instance in Flikr-tag we have (this is a part of the function):
function getPublicHead() {
if($this->optionGet('link_action') == "lightbox") {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
// used inside of lightbox.js
var flickr_tag_root = '< ?php bloginfo("wpurl"); ?>/wp-content/plugins/flickr-tag/';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo("wpurl"); ?>/wp-content/plugins/flickr-tag/js/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo("wpurl"); ?>/wp-content/plugins/flickr-tag/js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects"></script>It is direct and brutal, regardless of cohabitation with other plugins.
Moreover, the loading of the function by Wordpress is through the event ‘wp-head’:
add_action('wp_head', array($this, "getPublicHead"));
Ie that the loading scripts will be made in the header, apart from all management of conflicts.
What should we do?
Should Joshua must find a person who will work to understand and modify the fault plugins code? This would involve freezing these plugins in time, without benefit of future versions, but without benefit of changes to adapt to changes in Wordpress itself. Joshua might be obliged to keep its current versions of Wordpress.
Should we contact the creators of these plugins and this theme, and wait patiently for our demand is taken into account and they please respond? Knowing that the editor Flikr-tag is Yahoo, it may take a long time! And I think I have that Wp-forum is very well followed. In the pages of the directory that references these plugins you can see, in addition, it has not been tested with the latest version of Wordpress.
Should we abandon these plugins and this theme to find alternatives? I dare not propose to Joshua!
Should it adapt Events-Calendar to reflect the shortcomings of other plugins and theme Aspire? I really do not see how. Unless you fall into the draft, and the dish of spaghetti!
Maybe I do not see things and I am wrong?
Perhaps one of you has another idea I submit?
Help me, I do not know what to say to Joshua!
I keep getting this error when I try to display a list of events in my sidebar:
Warning: Missing argument 1 for SidebarEventsList(), called in /home/salinegateway/www/test/wp-content/themes/Gateway/sidebar_page.php on line 12 and defined in /home/salinegateway/www/test/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar/events-calendar.php on line 175
Any idea why? In the parameters, it says I should pass a parameter called $d. What exactly is that and how I would I pass it to this method?
Hello Casey,
$d is the number of events you want to appear in the list
Thank you for your support of Events Calendar. Is a great tool which I’ve just implemented on our blog.
You asked for opinions…. here is mine:
A person needs to decide what is most important in the purpose of their blog….if the calendar is crucial then they need to prioritize all the plugins and features as well as the look and feel. I think you as a developer need to focus on making your tool current and effective but if you try to fiddle it so it will work with every plug-in and theme out there, you will have a nervous breakdown and not be very productive!
I have seen that you and the originator work very hard to make it a robust plug-in and to continually improve its features. That’s good enough for me.
Laura
Hey Heirem!
Looks like you have got a lot to do, but could you please help me with my problem. As I told before it is still not possible to put links out off events or to post a related, linked post to an event . . . and the thing is I am desperately in need of these features . . .
Thanks in advance,
Fritz
I’m having a strange problem with the calendar. No events or month to month navigation are showing up in Firefox. Works fine in Safari. anyone else having this same problem?
Dear Laura, Your words make me warm heart Laura. It is also a little what I think. But I am not at the best placed to claim it, of course. So I’m glad you said it!
However, this does not solve the problem of Joshua. Finally, without waiting for your comments, I advised him to find plugins better followed that match his expectations.
Dear Fritz, Ok! I will see your problem as soon as possible. I promise you. But we must entrust me with more resources. Not only link to your site. As I told you your problem is probably your theme and how to manage links in pages. And as all your CSS files are not accessible by your site …
Hello Kristy Lee, yes it’s really amazing! Because usually it’s the opposite. Firefox is much more tolerant than Safari or Opera. I hope you will find where is the problem, and you’ll tell me
Hello,
I just installed Event Calendar plugin and I am having problems.
After I added the Widget, I am getting an error in the widgets page in WordPress admin area. the error is:
“%BEG_OF_TITLE%Upcoming Games%END_OF_TITLE%
October 2008″
I am not able to remove the Widget form my sidebar because of this error. The only way to remove it is by disabling the plugin.
The second problem, the calendar is not displaying my events in the sidebar. Maybe all this is related to the problem above I am having with the widget.
Is there anything I can do to get it fixed?
thanks!
Ok, thank you! I have already sent you the login data . . . I will send it again.
Fritz
Is there a way to display the time in a list view?
Hello,
I have a list of events for the whole calendar year that I tried to upload the events calendar.
The data were in csv format and I was able to import to “wp_eventscalendar_main” table successfully.
I am able to see all events in the admin area but for some reason they are not published on the web site. When I click on any event and click on update, without making any change to the event, then it get published.
When I looked at the table I didn’t see anything changed in the fields values. I am not sure what else I need to update to get all the events published. Any idea?
thanks!
Hello Tariq, I read the statement of your problems. But without access to your site it will be difficult to help you. You do not even provide a URL!
the site is cavsnews.com
What kind of access information do you need? is there an email that I can send to?
Bonjour Heirem,
J’utilise ce plugin depuis quelque temps déjà et malheureusement depuis la dernière mise à jour le calendrier (version grande taille) s’affiche carrément sur la sidebar quand j’affiche la page avec FF. J’ai testé avec IE je ne rencontre pas le problème.
J’ en profite pour te demander aussi si tu avais une idée quand à l’alignement du widget dans sa fenêtre.
Merci d’avance et bravo pour le travail.
Ben
Hello there,
first of: nice progress!
I got much fun using this plugin.
My only problem:
The day shown in the Thickbox Title does’nt match the real day according to the widget.
Even on your site this mistake occures when I click a date with an event.
Give it a try yourself
Thanks in advance for your help,
Flow
Another question about the SidebarEventsList function: is there any way to format the date to remove the year for ONLY the sidebar? I still want it to display on my calendar, but not on the sidebar. Is this possible?
Another question: on the main calendar, is it possible to move Sunday back to the beginning of the week instead of at the end?
Thanks for a great plugin!
Heirem, merci pour votre plugin prodigieux! As you can see on this site: http://www.societe-de-tir-du-perigord.org/calendrier/ I’ve displayed the calendar & the list on the same page. I have linked to PDF files for some of the dates - these linkouts function if you click on the calendar day - but not from the list. Visitors have no indication that there is a linked file from the calendar day - so they would not know to click for the link. I see that a linkout does work in the list for a linked article created in the plugin manager. But not a linked file.
Can you help me with this, please? Salutations A+
ok… I fixed the problem with the database.
One other problem… In the list view in sidebar widget, on home page, the event detailed doesn’t display when hover with mouse. It display ok on sub-pages. Any idea?
thanks!
Hello, I got problems with translations I made Estonian translation file but can’t install it
I got same problem with other plugins too. I would like to give you this file so you could use to make this improvment to next release of plugin. And help me understand what is my probem now.
About my last post. Now I got this all to work I just had to put translation file to lang directory first and then activate my plugin ;). But I would like to share this Estoian translation. Pleas send me e-mail and I’ll share this file.
Dear Tariq, your site is very beautiful. While the air to function well. However, as I do not see the little calendar, and I do not see any differences between the events of the list and the general timetable, I can not pronounce. It would be necessary as a first step for giving me access to your dashboard. My email is in the footer
Bonsoir Ben, c’est visiblement un problème de CSS. Voilà ce que j’ai fais, et je t’invite à en faire autant. Je te conseil l’utilisation du plugin Web Developper sous FF. C’est une mine d’informations précieuses sur tes pages. Ainsi en cochant l’option ‘View Style information’ dans le menu CSS j’ai remarqué des choses bizarres. Quand j ai cliqué sur les div de la navigation du grand calendrier je suis tombé sur des directives CSS fournies par un plugin nommé Rbl_Navigator ! Il y a donc des conflits CSS. Pour ce qui est du calendrier en widget il te suffira de commencer par réduire le nombre de caractères pour l’affichage des jours de la semaine. Tu trouvera cela dans les options d’Events-Calendar. Mais il est possible que là aussi des réglages CSS s’imposent.
Hello Flow, I tried. And I see no error. You could give me the address of your site so that I check too. But something tells me that only you see this error ..
Dear Casey, for your two questions the answer is yes! The date format in the widget events list is also the one specified in the options for the date format in the large calendar. I know this is not very logical, nor practical, but you must wait the next version, or change the code yourself
About to start the week with another day than Sunday, you just change the option in Wordpress itself 
Hello Alexander, thank you for your compliments. But I do not agree with you. Reaching a link through the list of events is possible. Since this link is clickable and usually appears in the tickbox
just the same way in the widget calendar. If this is not the case then you have a problem. Or I did not understand what you want me to say.
Hello Kaido, You included! Bravo ! My email address is in the foot of this page and this will be a pleasure to receive your Estonian translation file.
Alexander, I just understand your problem! I am tangled in the versions of the plugin! Sorry. That is what you must do. And it is also valid for all those who want to display the tickbox when a user clicks in an event of the widget list.
- Save (always save a file before edit) and open ‘ec_js.class.php‘
- Function ‘listData($events)’, in the javascript part, after
- Insert this
- Warning : delete the spaces between “< and ?php !!
- Save, try, and tell me
hello,
Just sent you an email. let me know if you didn’t receive it. Thanks!
Hi Alexander.
How did you get the list on a page? I need to do that also.
Hi, Thomas - still struggling (http://www.societe-de-tir-du-perigord.org/calendrier/) Thanks for your dedicated help, Heirem - your suggestion is well-orientated, but it’s not functioning yet - I’m code-diving now! A+
To make Events-Calendar-List link to a linked file (as well as a post[example here: http://www.societe-de-tir-du-perigord.org/calendrier/le-calendrier/)
- open ec_calendar.class.php, at line 45-49, replace with this (or a suitable variation for your display style)
if ($PostID == ”) {
$titlinked = ‘eventLinkout).’” target=”_blank”>’.stripslashes($event->eventDescription).”.$startDate.’ ‘.$day_names.”.stripslashes($event->eventLocation).’ - ‘ .stripslashes($event->eventTitle).’‘;
} else {
$titlinked = ‘‘.stripslashes($event->eventDescription).”.$startDate.’ ‘.$day_names.”.stripslashes($event->eventLocation).’ - ‘ .stripslashes($event->eventTitle).’‘;
}
Heirem, i see your logic - actually i thought to make it simpler (the tickbox is nice but overkill IMHO for your Calendar-list,) so i opted to change the link function in ec_calendar.class.php - to link to the external file & throw it up in a new window. (line 45-49) A+
& the code reads thus:
$titlinked = ‘eventLinkout).’” target=”_blank”>’
Sorry that snippet got stuffed by the form!
Hello Thomas, I do not see what list of pages you talk. It is expected that in the next version. When modifying an event, and you want to specify a post or a page associated, you will not have to provide their number, you can choose from a list. For the moment only the name of the page or post is retrieved in the tootips. With this code :
Dear Alexander, the code that I provided you is extracted from the next version. But likes you to make as you hear it. However, according to the rules of GPL licence , do not forget to communicate all modifications of general interest to the author. I.e. Luke Howell or me. I especially do not recall it for you, but for all those which would read these lines and which feel concerned
Alexander,
I’m trying to follow what you are doing with linking the list to a new window. I’ve tried putting that code snippet in place but I’m not sure exactly what to replace.
Here is the c_calendar.class.php lines 45-49:
if ($PostID == '') {
$titlinked = '‘.$day_names.’ ‘.$startDate.’: ‘.stripslashes($event->eventTitle);
} else {
$titlinked = ‘‘.$day_names.’ ‘.$startDate.’: ‘.stripslashes($event->eventTitle).”;
}
I’m thinking replace the above with:
if ($PostID == '') {
$titlinked = 'eventLinkout).'" target=”"_blank">'
} else {
$titlinked = 'eventLinkout).'" target=”"_blank">'
When I do this I get an “unexpected T_Constant_Encapsed_String” error. I’m pretty new to php, so I tried adjusting the ‘,”, and ) to fix the error but couldn’t. Any suggestions?
Hi Heirem,
On my new theme I’m doing - [http://www.i-web-solutions.org/tynevalleycycling1/?preview_theme=tynevalleycycling] The “next” month link does not appear, only the previous month link. I suspect this is something to do with the #next css id but I can’t get it working.
Please can you help,
Thank you.
Heirem:
I was wondering if you are aware of more/new conflicts between events calendar and cforms? I’m using version 6.5.2.1 and nested html in the events calendar only gets displayed correctly if I deactivate the cforms datepicker.
I hope you can help.
Thank you.
Ulf
We are building an events category in our blog, and having problems with the EventsCalendarLarge on our events category page. Any suggestions?
First, merci pour votre plugin prodigieux
It was exactly what I was looking for. However, on the computers I have tried so far here, with Internet Explorer 7 and above, I can not see the navigation links, or any events after the first on in November. I shall be trying other things out (removing links from events, etcetera), but I do know that under Firefox, no problems at all and also, with different themes, no problem. I have wp-forum installed, Blogroll Links, Wiki Dashboard, Catholic Reference Extension, Profiler and Akismet. Any of these known to interrupt Events Calendar functionality? Merci d’avance…
Hello Steven, Look at the sources of your page, the small part concern the calendar. Compare with those of my page. You’ll see why I do not understand why there are very few similarities between the two! All that is javascript and jQuery is missing from your code! On the other hand. When you click on the link Oct then falls on another page with a widget calendar that works very well, even if the look is totally different. I think it is important that you look at your template
Hello Ulf, If you take the time to read the old comments on this site you will find all the answers to your questions
Hello Bree, without more details about your problems it’s difficult to make suggestions. However, did you read the readme.txt with attention provided in the plugin and the associated text in the plugin page of wordpress in the dashboard of your site?
Hello Christian Bryant, thank you very much. Have you read my article above? The answers to your questions there yet …
So the symptoms I am having are the same as the problem described above… I see - Since I was able to see everything just fine in Firefox, I thought it might be different. I didn’t notice wp-forum was one of the plugins mentioned above. I didn’t see any comments as to how to fix the issue so I was hoping maybe somebody had emailed you a fix instead
I’m not a coder, but I will see if there is anything I can do to fix this. Someone mentioned up there priorities in one’s website and I agree, though of all the forums I tried for my WordPress website, wp-forum is my favorite, just as yours is my Calendar favorite. Hopefully this issue will be solved!
Hi Heirem!
Thanks a million for a great plugin… I’ve had it running on several WordPress installs - and it normally works like a charm!
However the latest version and installation is giving me a headache - it keeps throwing the following error message back at me (which dissapears after reloading the page a couple of times):
Warning: main(): Unable to access ec_db.class.php in /home/f/a/ftp_familievejledernedk/site/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar/ec_day.class.php on line 3Warning: main(ec_db.class.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/f/a/ftp_familievejledernedk/site/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar/ec_day.class.php on line 3
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'ec_db.class.php' (include_path='') in /home/f/a/ftp_familievejledernedk/site/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar/ec_day.class.php on line 3
WordPress is installed in its own folder on: http://www.familievejlederne.dk/site/ I’m not sure whether this has anything to do with the issue. Maybe you have an idea how to solve this?
Any hints would be greatly appreciated!
Regards
Rune
Hi there,
I don’t know where to put my problem, but I think I can put it here.
Maybe I can’t ask it here, but I do so
How do I change the language of the calendar?
I’ve tried already many things, but still no efford.
Can you tell me what code to change to get it in a different language?
Thanks a lot already!
Danny
Dear Christian Bryant, the only thing I can say, at the present, so some may loan, is that these problems will be much more easily resolvable with the version on which I work now
Hello Rune, in my opinion it is with the “/site/” you have a problem. And this is very surprising that only Events Calendar is the only plugin to react. The theme of the site should also have problems. It is an addressing problem that should be general to the site.
Nevertheless you must check in the Worpress general options of the site, whether in the ‘Address of blog’ you have ‘http://www.familievejlederne.dk/site/. And no ‘http://www.familievejlederne.dk/ only.
If the error is only triggered by Events Calendar, line 3 in ‘ec_day.class.php’, then what you can do is replace:
With this:
Or :
Next settings PHP hosting the site.
Please let me know what that makes your side.
Hello Danny, Events Calendar will automatically hold on the language set in Wordpress itself. If you have a site with a Wordpress set for Italian, the calendar will be Italian. Events Calendar is a Wordpress plugin. It is therefore normal that total immersion in Wordpress.
I do not see the value of an option to choose a different language for calendars. But I may be wrong. To all of you to tell me
Hi Heirem!
Thanks for your reply… the last replacement suggestion did it for me! The general options were set correctly and I was experimenting along the same lines, but finally replacing the line:
require_once('ec_db.class.php');withrequire_once(EVENTSCALENDARPATH.'/ec_db.class.php');did the job!
Regards
Rune
Dear Rune, I am charmed by it. And I will draw experiment from it to adjust and generalize this principle in the next version
Heirem,
Regarding the plug-in reactivation bug (where spaces are removed in the “Location” field). I did some research and “James” suggested the following fix here: http://heirem.fr/2008/09/29/events-calendar-some-news-from-the-front/#comment-618
Did you ever try this?
Best regards,
Neil
Heirem,
Also, did you know about this bug? It is a conflict between Register Plus and the Event Calendar. It is documented here:
http://skullbit.com/news/register-plus-conflicts/ where it says,
Best Regards,
Neil
Hello Heirem –
Your Events-Calendar is *almost* perfect for my application.
Where I’m running into a problem is with user level authorities:
I would like a Contributor to be able to add events, yet only have edit/delete capabilities for *their own* entries. As far as I can tell, Events-Calendar only provides all-or-nothing authority choices.
Short of the application recognizing whose entry is whose, I’d also be satisfied with allowing one group (say, Contributors) to enter events into the calendar, yet only having superior roles (say, Editor on up) having access to edit/delete functionality.
I apologize if this has been addressed in earlier posts, but I was unable to find it.
Thanks for your hard work; it’s great stuff.
Kevin
Am I missing something obvious? Or could you point me in the right direction on where to hard-code a user-level check
Hi Heirem,
Thanks for your quick answer!!
Now I know why it is in English
Keep up the good work, and thanks for the great and helpfull plugin!!
Greetings from Holland
Danny
I found that in the large calendar display, the mouseover code that displays the events details truncates the contents of the “link out” to 19 characters. This seems too short (especially since you’re already at 11 by the time you’ve displayed “http://www.” ). Is there a reason why it needs to truncate so aggressively?
I’m referring to the substr($linkout, 0, 19) call at line 234 of ec_js.class.php.
Thanks.
Hi
This is by far the best calendar plugin I have tested so far. And I think I have tested them all.
Only one thing is buggin me.
Even though most of the months and days automatically translates to danish (which is what I juse on the blog), the words describing the calendar entry (Location, Description ect) is still in english. I can only assume it is because the danish WP translation is flawed, but does anybody know of a way to get around this problem?
Hi
Thanks for a great plugin, it is the best I have seen.
Unfortunately I seem to be having a few problems getting it working:
1)When adding an event, the event does not appear on the calendar in the admin section or the frontpage. The event page is however created.
The site is pretty new, so there are no other plugins that could be affecting the Events plugin.
On first installation, one event did show, but now it has disappeared.
When I enter into the Events calendar in the admin section, a little pop up box shows up saying “Warning - Message” - but no actual warning is showing.
Please let me know if you need more information and I appreciate any help that an be offered.
If I add an event that starts at 13.00 on 01/01/09 and ends at 10.00 on 14/01/09 I get a warning that the event ends before it starts and I cannot add it.
This is not right - the event finish at an earlier time but on a later date. This bug means I cannot enter multi day events - like a conference - with a start and end time.
Hi, when installing the latest version I get this error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare eventscalendarinit() (previously declared in /www/htdocs/w009c750/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar/events-calendar.php:81) in /www/htdocs/w009c750/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar/events-calendar.php on line 80
Any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it? Looks like a great plugin, if I could only get it to work :).
Dear Neil, yes I remember the proposal of James. I had tested but because I myself did not meet anywhere your problem I could obviously not encounter problems. I even tried several contents of the variable
eventLocation, but without much success.So it’s to you to tell me what results you get with this change. To do this you need to correct your events and then deactivate / reactivate the plugin to see what results you get. I expect news from you
Regarding the bug reported on skullbit.com. It was corrected long ago. I wrote to the author of the page for his attention. But I never received a reply.
Best regards
Dear Kev, you are not late and you have nothing missed. I just respond here to Stewart’s comment who faced the same concerns as you. The same considerations apply to your case and I think I’ll dig it seriously. But for the next version of course
Best regards
Hello again Stewart, yes there is a simple reason. The links to a page can consist of many characters! I do not know the maximum length allowed. So therefore imagine the width of the box that must adapt to this display.
I have already thought of a more elegant solution and it will be incorporated into the next version. Thanks for your note which confirms what I already thought
Hello Jens, I went to see your site and I saw your little problem. It is not a bug of Wordpress nor the plugin. It is simply that the translation file in your language has not been updated for the recent versions. I already make calls for the goodwill to fill these gaps. Unfortunately without great results for certain languages.
Would you take? It’s very simple. You should download and install PoEdit, which is free. Then open the translation file with extension ‘.po’ in the directory ‘lang’ of the plugin, with this great tool. It’ll just bring those entries that have not yet been updated. Of course you would be very kind to send me the file once updated. Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Thought I would just post that after my previous post (Problems with events not being added as well as not showing on the sidebar correctly) I updated to the new release of Wordpress and ensured I was running an updated PHP5.
Everything is now working fine! Thanks for a great plugin
Dear Nicky, I am sincerely happy for you!
You’ll just have to adapt the design of Events Calendar to your nice website
Hello Mark, this is obviously not normal at all. Which version of the plugin are you using? Can you provide me the link to your site? Pending your response I will conduct tests on my side.
Best regards
Hello DickS, I see two possible explanations:
1 - A problem with the content of the file “htaccess’ of your site.
2 - Make a test by replacing in all the *.php files of the plugin ‘
siteurl‘ with ‘wpurl‘. As was explained very well by Helvetia Bazel in his commentary here.And tell me after
Hi Heirem,
I can’t seem to find your e-mail address so I’ll try it this way. I use the Events-Calendar plugin but want to disable the “tooltip” function. Is there a way to leave this out or change some code to make it not use this?
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
Hello Stefan, actually the only way to disable the display of tooltips is to remove the jQuery commands in the code. Could I know why you bother tooltips? My email is in the foot of this page
Thanx for your reply Heirem! I just don’t like the tooltips. i’d rather have an alt tag that says the Title or something. I can’t get it to look nice either, it’s really bugging me
No offence, I can see other sites using it but I would really like to disable it. I tried a few things but this sort of breaks the rest of the plugin.
Dear Stefan, to remove the tooltips you must open all the ‘*.php’ files of the plugin. Sorry, I do not have time to do the inventory. Then delete the lines of this kind:
and
What you should know:
1 - the content of tooltips is assigned to the tag ‘title’.
2 - the tooltip is triggered by the jQuery function ‘tooltip’.
In the next version, if everything goes well, you should have the choice between several styles tooltips, or not at all tooltips. Hence the reason for my question. Thereafter I think the possibility for the administrator to design the content of its tooltips, making choices information. But it will not be in the immediate of course
Heirem, thanks for your reply. I have changed it for my website to 45 characters, both in ec_js.class.php and also in ec_day.class.php. For very long URLs, this isn’t ideal in terms of attractiveness (since they may wrap awkwardly) but I think it’s better than hiding part of the URL. You can see an example of an event with a long URL here: http://www.scbs.org/events/calendar/ , look at the jam on Nov. 23.
Also, I made a change to ec_day.class.php to use “target=_blank” for the linkout instead of “target=_parent”, this made the behavior more consistent between the large calendar and the widget calendar.
Hi from Monterrey, México….
Can i put a future month for default?
How can i do?
thanks, take care!!!
Hello again Stewart, you did what you could to suit your needs. You were right. That is the advantage of open source softwares
As I said, I think a more elegant solution yet.
Thank you for your last remark. It will not be useless. I’ll put it in my ToDo List
Hello Italo, I do not understand sincerely your question. Could you be more explicit and more specific please ?
Best regards
Hello again Heirem –
I’m still struggling with a means to prevent event authors from deleting those of other authors. I’m sure your next version will have a much more elegant solution, but for now I’m trying to simply non-display the entire admin calendar (so, only the “new event” form) in conjunction with the role-manager plugin. $80 worth of PHP books later…..we’ll see.
HOWEVER…
I have just noticed that the “Location:” data in my large calendar is not parsing correctly; it is remaining one long, non=wrapping string.
Instead of this….
Location: O’Fallon Elks Lodge, 1163
Tom Ginnever, O’Fallon, MO 63376
I’ve got this…
Location:
O’FallonElksLodge,1163TomGinnever,O’Fallon,MO,63376
This error presents itself in Firebug:
Permission denied to call method Location.toString
Any idea what I might have done to cause this?
ALSO…
Any time I place either and apostrophe (’) or quote (”), it is written to the post with a preceding forward (or maybe reversed…can’t recall) slash (/), as if an escape character isn’t being cleaned off. Plus, ampersands (&) are being recorded as &. Not terribly pretty, but easy to edit.
Thanks again,
Kev
Dear Kev, I could not answer you in detail in the immediate future. I understood everything but all this calls for labor and specific tests. Let me a little time and I will answer you seriously. Especially since some remarks join other comments, concerning the content of Location. Do a little research on my blog and you will understand what I want to talk
Kev,
I wanted to do the same type of thing. What I ended up doing was to make a different version of the ‘add event’ form that could be rendered separately from the editable calendar, putting that into a front-end page, and using the Role Scoper plugin to make it only accessible to the proper users.
If you’re interested I would be happy to share what I have done with you. Of course it means we’ll both have a lot of work on our hands when we try to upgrade to Heirem’s next release…
Regarding your permission problem, is the problem happening at the time you add the event or when you try to display it? If it’s at add time I would suggest that maybe in removing the editable calendar you also removed some needed function call.
Hello Heirem!
Thanks for the great Plugin! But I have a small Problem with the list view.
I decided do show the upcomming events on a list, so i addet
into my sidebar.php. The problem is now,that the upcomming events are not shown, instead of them there appears the following text ‘ Events are coming soon, stay tuned! ‘In the calendar-view everything is ok and correct. I use EventsCalendar vers. 6.5.2.1
I think i have forgotten to activate an option or something like this.
thank you in advance
Bjoern
Bjoern,
What exactly have you put into your sidebar.php? The documentation says to use “” but it looks to me like it really should be “” to display 5 events (or substitute however many events you want to display).
Sorry, let me try that again:
The documentation says to use
<?php SidebarEventsList();?>
but it looks to me like it really should be
<?php SidebarEventsList(5);?>
to display 5 events (or substitute however many events you want to display). There doesn’t seem to be any default set in the code.
Dear Stewart, Indeed the work is not what is missing! I am a bit overwhelmed these days. Pfiuuu
I would be really interested to share with you my work. How do you see it in your hand? Did you have code to send ?
The problem of allowing the addition of events in the front end of a blog is simple: all visitors can create an event for fun or to try. To avoid this it must not be allowed not you think? To do this it would be necessary to create a dedicated function that would verify that the user is logged and authorized. It is doable but not for me right now
Thanx a lot for the help with Bjoern !
Hello Bjoern, have you read and applied the relevant councils from Stewart?
Hello Bjoern, I think I found the origin of your problem. Open the file ‘ec_calendar.class.php’. At about the line 33, if you find something like that :
Just delete the end of the line, after the point like that :
I hope this help …
Forget the /ul at the end !! Dont add it: it’s added by the pre code editor of the comments of my blog and I cant delete .. grrrr
Hi Heirem
Thank you very much.
I have made a danish translation. Now I just need to know how to apply it to the plugin. And to mail you a copy ofcourse.
Hello Jens, to create a new file you can translation from an existing file and replace its contents in your language. This is the coding in the name of the file that tells the plugin the language. You just have to rename it after.
Thank you in advance to send me the result. My email address is in the feet of this page
Hi Heirem
Unfortunately it didn’t solve all of my problems.
A few words and phrases are still in English. Both in mouseover and when the entry is shown. Ie Date range, since, untill ect.
I had a look at the wordpress .po file, but did’t discover any lacking translation. Since the plugin neither retrives the words from the wp .po nor the plugin .po file, where does the English come from?
PS - I hoped you recived the danish .po file.
Dear Jens, yes I have received your translation in Danish and I thank you very much.
In Events Calendar it is the names of weekdays and the names of months ahead of the translation Wordpress. Everything else comes from the files of the plugin. When you are under PoEdit if the paths are correct to php files, you can check what entries are not translated. Perhaps you should watch this side is not ?
Best regards
Hi Heirem,
Im using the Events Calendar plugin for a project. Im from Holland and so has to be this website. After I didn’t found the Dutch .po file in the lang folder I decided to create one and send it yo you.
So I took the German .po-file and changed all items to her Dutch equivalents. Only thing is, although it’s working, that In the .po-file I still see the the directory path that isn’t mine.
Now I have 2 Quistions:
#Is this the right way to do these things?
#Im missing the translation for ‘Link out’ in the add event part. How can I easely add this?
Thanks, Vincent
Hi There,
Like many other - Thanks for such a great plugin. It will be very useful!
I am having a similar issue as Kristy Lee way back on October 18. I’ve installed the “Large Calendar” along with the widget (Showing Events, not calendar)
When there are no events in the calendar, it all seems fine. I have the calendar with the following and past month displayed and I can forward to the following or go back to the previous month. As soon as I enter an event, the months dissapear.
As I am entering events that go over multiple days, I also tried simply entering a single day entry to see if it was something to do with spanning over multiple days. Didn’t fix it. I have also tried to enter events with and without the widget and also by changing the widget to calendat mode instead of event list.
I’m using version 6.5.2.1. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Bonjour, j’aimerais savoir comment appeler la liste des évènements en dur… En gros, quelle commande mettre dans mon fichier, plutôt que de passer par le widget ?
Merci d’avance !
Hello Scott Maney,
You have the typical conflict between Events Calendar and cforms. Yet you have well set the option “Extrem jQuery protection”. I would have to view your page with the Large Calendar to give you a more informed opinion.
Bonjour glloq8,
C’est pourtant indiqué dans le readme.txt et c’est aussi affiché dans la liste des extensions quand le plugin a été installé. Des problèmes avec l’anglais peut-être ?
Je cite : “There are options under the widget options to specify the view of the calendar in the sidebar. The widget can be a list for upcoming events or a calendar. If you do not have a widget ready theme then you can place ‘< ?php SidebarEventsCalendar();?>’?, or ‘< ?php SidebarEventsList();?>’ for an event list, in the sidebar.php file of your theme. If you want to display a large calendar in a post or a page, simply place “[[EventsCalendarLarge]]” in the html of the post or page.”
Tu as donc :
-‘< ?php SidebarEventsCalendar();?>’ pour le petit calendrier,
-‘< ?php SidebarEventsList(Nb événements);?>’ pour la liste des événements.
Merci, j’ai regardé partout sauf dans le readme… Et j’avoues que je n’ai pas non plus pensé à regarder dans la liste des extensions…
En tout cas, merci !!
Hi Again,
Thanks for your help! I have made the “Maneyacts Calendar” page visable again so you can take a look at it.
I also set up a second copy of Word Press with the same plugins and it actually works! This is with the current version of CForms and your Events-Calendar.
I tried to re-install the calendar by Deactivating it, deleting it from my server and then re-installing it at my actual site but still have not had any luck.
Thanks again! Scott.
Dear Scott Maney, yes it’s working but there is no events inside
The recording of events will appear in the source code XHTML jQuery instructions. These are calls to tooltips that pose issues. I solved the problem for the next version. But until the best solution I can suggest is to remove these calls to tooltips. If you want I can tell you how. Provided that my hypothesis is right 
Bonjour, bonne année à tous !!
Je voudrais savoir comment passer les infos qui sont dans la div qui apparait au survol en minuscules…
Je parles des infos (titre, lieu, description,…). En effet, elles sont toutes en majuscules, hors, je n’ai à aucun moment défini de majuscules dans mes CSS, ce n’est donc pas hérité…
Merci d’avance !
Bonsoir et Bonne Année également, merci glloq8,
J’aurais aimé voir une page qui montre ce problème qui m’est totalement inconnu ! Mais je ne la trouve pas sur ton blog. Méfies toi des héritages. Pour en être certain il faudrait que tu utilise une des fameuses extension sous FireFox, comme Web Developer, mieux encore Firebug.
Vincent
Base you translation on the french .po file, which is the most thorough.
Hello Heirem and all,
I wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year.
First of all congratulations for the great plugin.
I have installed it in WP 2.7, so before i describe you 2-3 issues and kindly request for your assistance, i need to ask first: Should the plugin be normally compatible to 2.7 version?
Best Regards
Periklis
http://www.scorespro.com/articles
Hello and Happy New Year Periklis,
As I said before to Jamie,
Once a stable version of Wordpress 2.7 has been available and I am eager to test it with Events Calendar. Of course I did tested with Events Calendar:)
I did not notice any fundamental flaws. The only problem, the more embarrassing for the eyes as for the operation comes from the poor presentation of forms and menu items.
I do everything I can to move forward as quickly as possible the new version on which I work hard. To thank you all for your patience.
Hi Heirem,
I’m having the same problem that Casey had with the the $d argument.
Can you let me know where to set the var?
Thanks,
George
George,
You just need to pass the number of events as a parameter to the SidebarEventsList function. For example:
<?php SidebarEventsList(5);?>
to show 5 events.
Thanks Stewart…
That’s saved me going mad!
Hi Heirem,
great job you guys!
I just noticed that modifying the class todayLarge does not work: the background colour of the current day remains unchanged.
Then I modified the property “background-color” in ec_calendar.class.php (row 130) and it worked…
Am I wrong or it overrides it?
Hello Luigi,
You probably right!
But I do not have time to check it out.
The information may be useful to other users of the plugin.
I invite you to read my last post and you will understand, I hope, that my mind is entirely focused on the next version
My best wishes.
I am currently using the “Sliding Door” theme (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sliding-door ) on my wordpress site (http://freestateflyfishers.org/ ) and find that when I activate the Event Calendar Widget for the sidebar the sliding pictures at the top stop moving. I assume it is a javascript problem with the two scripts fighting it out, but haven’t found the answer yet. Anyone have the same problem or an idea?
Thanks
Kollman
Hello Kollman,
It is very difficult to give an opinion if you can not see the problem on a page. And as you remove the calendar widget…
Have you tried the option “jQuery extrem protection” of Events-Calendar?
Best Regards
Heirem,
I thought this could be usefull:
In the file ec_management.class.php (around line 493)I replaced
<option value="level_10" ><option value="level_7" >
<option value="level_2" >
<option value="level_1" >
<option value="level_0" >
with
So userroles added by yourself are with this also visible!
salut,
Vincent
Sorry I see the code is not comming threw very well..
so I replaced the select options by:
Heirem, I have send it to you by mail.
Hi Heirem,
I checked into the jQuery Extrem Protection and right now it is unchecked. When I did check it, the posts on the calendar disappeared from the large calendar. I am not sure what the extrem protection does.
I can’t say I have a lot of experience in JS, but think the “onmouseover” command for the posts is fighting with the same command for the the sliding images of the theme. I could turn the widget back on if you want to take a look and see from that end.
Thanks for the help.
Martin
I am using 2.7.1 and 6.5.2a. My theme is not widget enabled.
1. Calendar on Page
I added the calendar to the page. It worked fine until I added a list of events to my side bar. When I did that no events showed in the page calendar. (I can live with this)
2. Sidebar Calendar Click Date for More Details
It tries to show something but it is displayed in the wrong place - bottom LH of the screen. I really need this one fixed, if you have any idea what is happening ..
thanks.
Hello Kym,
I do not understand your message, I see nothing that is not performing on your blog with Events-Calendar .. Have you managed all alone to solve your problem?
Best regards
Hello Martin,
If you still experience this JS conflict with plugins, then write directly to email, my address is in the footer of this page. I have to submit you a version that maybe will solve it.
Best regards
Hi Heirem, if i wanted to use events calendar outside of wordpress but within the same root folder of the web server is this possible, so far I’ve got the calendar to load but it’s missing the events i added this code to
http://81.86.245.248/theadvertiserbiz/index.php
I’ve tried loading the original themes as well but no go
here’s what it looks like inside wordpress
http://81.86.245.248/theadvertiserbiz/events.php
I’ve tried telling the index.php file to load the evemts callendar javascripts but this has no effect either.
Hi All,
I am trying to have a list of all events show on a page whilst having a list of the next five events in the sidebar.
Is this easy to do?
Thanks,
George
Hi Heirem,
Thanks for looking.
My problem is still there. If you click on an event on the calendar, for example, 16 Feb, then it seems to try and display something in the bottom LH corner under IE and under FF it is showng at the top of the LH column - partly in the header.
The more you click the more it shows/is repeated. I can partly make out a “9″ .
If I hit it a lot, I end up seeing AJAX load type bars in the bottom LH side fo the screen. So maybe this is an AJAX problem of some sort.
Pete,
The second link isn’t working for me. However, if the calendar is displaying but no events are showing up, my guess would be that you don’t have a working connection to the wordpress database. Are you including both wp-includes/wp-db.php and wp-config.php?
Actually the more I think about it, there’s a whole string of things you might or might not need to include (functions.php, settings.php). I suspect you’re working in terra incognita here…good luck!
George,
There’s no shortcode for putting an event list into a page like there is for the large calendar. I did some experimenting and found that I could put an event list in the sidebar using the widget, and then (with the help of the Exec-PHP plugin) embed a call to <?php sidebarEventsList(20); ?> in a page.
The limitations of this are: first, you can’t display all events, it has to be a fixed number (20 in this case); second, I didn’t like the way the events displayed in the main page. The second might be fixable by messing with CSS, or you might get better results embedding the actual widget in the page instead of calling sidebarEventsList().
So I guess the short answer to your question is that it’s not easy to do, but it is probably not impossible.
Hello Pete,
I can only confirm what you said Stewart.
Events-Calendar is a plugin, not a program. The difference is that a dedicated plugin for Wordpress will draw a number of resources that are essential to function. Without these resources the best plugin can operate outside of Wordpress. It’s simple logic.
In conclusion, in this situation, Events-Calendar, like all Wordpress plugins, can not work outside the Wordpress environment.
Best regards
Hello Kym,
I’ve emailed a version of the plugin to test. Since you seem to have problems of conflicts between plugins. I visited your website and I found nothing abnormal. But I suppose you have disabled some other plugins.
Best regards
Hello Giorgio,
No this is not easy to do! I know because I done it for the next version. You just have to wait until it is available
Best regards
Hi Heirem,
I am running into a couple of problems, which I’m sure result from something I’ve done wrong (this is all pretty new to me). Firstly, whenever I enter an event (see March for example), I cannot move backward or forwards from that month. Also, the rollover feature doesn’t seem to work - it looks like HTML code instead of what I am expecting to see. Can you help please?
Otherwise, the calendar has all the features I would want. Thanks for your ongoing enhancement of it!
Hi Stewart,
Thanks for that - It worked wonders!
http://blueleaf-printstudio.co.uk/kiddo360/gigs
George
Hi
I sent you an answer by email but from what I have worked out it seems the problem relates to themes. I have the problem with my custom theme and also the classic theme. It works ok with the WP default theme.
I am not sure what it is within a theme that would be doing it. I suspect something to do with stylesheets.
Custom and Classic are placing the event pop-up to the far right where it goes off the page whereas the Default puts it dead centre.
regards
Kym
Hello Mark D,
Sorry to answer you a little late. I took a week’s vacation that I have been very profitable.
I see on your page that the problem still exists. In examining the sources I have found a conflict between plugins.
Have you tried the option “jQuery Extrem protection”?
Best Regards
I hope you had a restful vacation Heirem. Looks like you really deserved it!!!
I’m sorry to be so ignorant, but I have no programming background, and so I don’t have any idea what I need to do to try the “jQuery Extrem protection” option. Are you able to give me fairly simple step by step instructions on which files to update and what exactly I should enter?
Mark - you don’t need to update any files. The option Heirem is referring to is a checkbox at the bottom of the Events Calendar options screen. From your dashboard, just go to Events Calendar, click the options tab, check the jQuery Extrem protection box and click “Update Options”.
Thanks Stewart, even I could handle that!!
However, it didn’t fix the problem, so I guess I need Heirem to take another look at the site if at all possible. If it is a conflict issue, would that go away if I inserted the large calendar into a post instead of having it as a sidebar item?
I put the code in my sidebar.php and it shows up fine in Firefox but when I go into Internet Explorer - it shows the calendar stretched and way at the bottom of my page. It take the entire sidebar and moves it below my main page blog. What is wrong with IE? What can i do to fix this?
I still have my problem with the click on the date functionality with WP2.7.1
If I click on a event with the default theme, it shows up center of the page. If I use the Classis theme or the custom theme I have, then it shows up elsewhere is un readable.
I’m seeing a lot of posts here and looking at Heirems website there is a newer version of the plugin. Can you share the roadmap for a new release as I really like the new functions :).
Hello Zach,
It’s hard for me to help you with this problem without seeing it on a page. The track that I can give you is to look at lending guidelines CSS of your theme. The solution is very likely there.
Best Regards
Hello Kym,
I really do not know what to tell you. I saw the issue to display the thickbox in your page. The only explanation that comes to mind is that the thickbox plugin included in your version of WP 2.7.1 is not loaded by your page. But I can not know the reasons in the current situation.
Best Regards
I just installed
http://www.christianschenk.org/projects/wordpress-thickbox-plugin/
and now it works
regards
Kym
Hello Kym,
This is an excellent idea, but are you sure that it works now ? I went to your blog, and although the previous anomalies are absent, the thickbox does not appear for me. Did you make any change that could explain it?
Best regards
Thanks for following up. I checked again and it still works for me.
There is on event on 18 March and it comes up right in the center in FF and IE when you click on it.
regards
Kym
Hi,
I am trying to change some colors to match my site. (I haven’t given you a URL because the site is for a client) I would like to change the blue background for the current date. I can’t seem to be find it in the CSS.
Thanks, anni
Anni,
You’re hitting a bug that I reported here. In the current version it’s not properly reading the options so it’s using a hardcoded default style string. The easiest workaround would be to edit ec_calendar.class.php and change line 225 to the background-color you want.
I imagine this will likely change in the next release.
Stewart thank you for your answers and assistance.
We are all very grateful.
Hi, great plugin. How do you show all the events you have entered, not just the current ones? I want to show events for the whole year using the events widget. Thanks
Hello Ryan Kennedy,
Consultation calendar views, monthly or yearly, is not yet planned for future versions. But it is an idea we’ve ever had. Every day is enough his sentence ….
Hi, Are you sure? I can edit the code. It must say somewhere to use the current date. I can change that to the date I want.
Dear Ryan,
On the one hand I apologize, I wrote an error in my previous comment: you should read “weekly” and not “monthly.” However I do not understand your answer! You want to code by yourself a annual calendar view?
Yes, if it’s easy! You have one in your sidebar.
hello
how do you make an event which lasts for multiple days only display the text once across those days?
say i have event for 3 days, i don’t want the same text to be repeated in each day. I want the title of the event to be spread across the 3 days.
i can see it on this site here: website
if anybody knows how to do this, please explain.
thank you
Hello Jeff,
For your help needs thank you to visit the dedicated support forum on the site dedicated to maintaining the current Events Calendar :
http://www.wp-eventscalendar.com/forum
My blog is now devoted to the development of future versions.
If you have any suggestions at this level, they are welcome in the comments on my blog.
Cordialement
Heirem
Heirem
I am trying to use the Calendar for a school site. To make it useful parents need to be able to print it (because most people like to put it on their fridge).
See a month on one page is great but being able to click a print icon will make it more useful
thanks
Kym
Hello Kym,
The printing of events, or of a calendar, is a good suggestion. We had already thought. However this is not yet a feature of the next version but that will happen just after
Best regards
Hi
That’s great.
Can you tell me when you think that might be? Because this school opens in September 2009 and it would be great if it was available then.
But if not then if would be good if I could tell them when because I know they are going to ask me.
Until then I guess people can just print the webpage…
thanks
Kym
I would like to remove i beleive it is called a “thickbox” the black thing that opens when i click on a calendar date.
How can I remove that or even better link to the large calendar instead.
THANKS!
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