Location Selection

1. are you on a multisite mode and EM is network activated? also, does global table mode is enable and locations on main blog?

2. try tables wp_em_*

No it is not set up for multi-site.

1. I’d suggest trying to disable plugins and/or changing to the default wp theme temporarily to see if that helps.

2. note that we also make use of wp_posts and wp_postmeta for events/locations

Changed the template, but did not resolve the problem.
I have disabled all the plugins I can. These are left –

Akismet
Custom Post Widget
Export Users to CSV
Extra Shortcodes for WP eStore
Fast Secure Contact Form
Form Manager
Google Analytics for Word Press
Komoona Advertising
Mail Chimp
Simple Local Avatars
Sweet Captcha
Tweet, Like, Google +1, and Share
WP eStore

2. Are those the tables I should restore from backup?

Theme, I meant.

I don’t know if this matters, but I compared information from the site where EM is working with the site where it is not. One difference I have found so far is that the referring URL is different for the event post page:
Not working site:
https://www.walruspublishing.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=event

Working Site
https://stlward15.org/wp-admin/plugin-editor.php

Do I have to have network activated? How do I do this? Is it only in the pro version?

i’m not sure why you’re getting ‘plugin-editor.php’ because that wouldn’t be a page we associate with….

I’d still recommend disabling all other plugins, just to be sure. It sounds like a javascript conflict to me, if you do actually get a list of locations sent back to you but you just can’t select one.

After further testing – it apparently isn’t just an issue with Events Manager, but in post-new.php. Any new post –

Form Fields produce pick list. The pick list disappears when I attempt to select. Problem occurs on Firefox and Safari. In IE the list stays, but does not load the selection in the form field.

Here is the weird part – this is not a problem in an add-on domain which as the same WP version. Problem occurred after the creation of the add-on domain.

I think it is a database pointer issue, but I don’t know the right questions to ask or what to tell technical support to assist.

Why does this plugin use custom post types (in its own table (wp_em_locations) for locations and also use post metadata (stored in wp_postmeta) for the location information for each event? Would it not be simpler to just use one or the other (postmeta vs cpt)? Just curious, but I would appreciate a reply… Thanks!

I don’t know that it does….I’m not a coder, just throwing some ideas out there. It sounds like you know better how the post works. What should I be looking for? I didn’t write the script….

@milleronic

maybe this can help you out – https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/getting-started/

https://wpsmith.net/2011/custom-post-types/understanding-wordpress-custom-post-types-benefits-and-advantages-of-using-custom-post-types/

Thanks, agelonwl, but I’m familiar with custom post types and why they are used – I don’t understand the rationale for using them in this case, when the location information is stored for each event in postmeta…

Thanks for the link. I don’t think that this problem is within Events Manager, but an issue with new-post.php. The error happens on all post forms.