Another place to look for ghost events with date=Jan-1-1970 besides em_events?

More strangeness to add to the puzzle:

[1] On the homepage, I am using the EM widget, and I set it to show 6 Future Events. The first one is a ghost but shows a date (1-1-1970), the next two are fine (dated 2-20-2013), the fourth is a ghost with a date (1-1-1970), and the fifth and sixth are fine (dated 2-24-2013). When I use Firebug to look at what’s there, both ghost events are shaded in Firebug and show:
<a title="" href="https://dev.domain.com/?post_type=post&p=758"></a>
But id=758 is a regular blog post under its own category – why would it show up in the listing?

[2] In a sidebar, I am using shortcode in a text widget and have the events grouped by day. This time, the first date is January 1, 1970, and it has a big white space, and then my next events display properly. Again, looking at it in Firebug, there are three ghost events listed under Jan 1, 1970, but this time of the form:
<a title="" href="https://dev.domain.com/?post_type=page&p=51"></a>
Page id=51 also happens to be the page on which the sidebar widget is located.

There is a second page (id=789) that also has the sidebar widget, and the same thing happens as on page id=51, except it has three ghost events of the form:
<a title="" href="https://dev.domain.com/?post_type=page&p=789"></a>

Updating those pages did not help. Updating Permalinks did not help either. Bizarre.

have you tried checking table wp_em_events for unknown events?

Hi agelonwl. Thank you for your reply. Yes, I checked the _em_events table. I did not find any unknown events. I added the extra information in the follow-up reply to my original post thinking it would help steer those smarter than me in the right direction. Thank you!

hi, you can also checked wp_posts tables which is link to wp_em_events table.

OK, someone just published a new blog post, and it is being pulled into the EM widget. Why would that be? It is showing up in the widget without a title, just a date.

agelonwl, thank you for trying to help. There was nothing odd in my _posts table either.

In the EM widget, I changed the category number from 0 (all) to 4, which is specific to the Events I wanted to show. I also included category=”4″ in the widget shortcode. Now the ghost events are no longer displaying. (But, it had been working before with the category set to zero.)

So, I’m going to mark this resolved, although it is more accurately called “closed” since the main issue I don’t believe is resolved; namely, why this behavior is happening.

if normal posts are being pulled into the event lists, that’d indicate that you either have made some sort of mod to EM that’s causing this, or possibly your wp_em_events table is out of sync for some reason and is using post_id values that point to blog posts.

It may be related to the ghost events problem, maybe these ghost events in wp_em_events contain old post ids that are now being used by your new posts (shouldn’t happen as auto_increment doesn’t reuse post ids but maybe you changed that)?

Thank you, Marcus. I’ll scour my tables more and see what I find.

I am seeing this issue. I don’t have any post. My site is using buddypress. I had to delete the widget and add it again. However, I am still seeing the issue with the pages that are displaying the events. Do you I need to delete the page and add them again?

The data looks good

hi @catyco

not sure what do you mean, can you rephrase?

thanks

Angelo, the data in the wp_post and wp_em_events table looks fine. I don’t know what am I supposed to look for.

I see, same with wp_em_events table? also, is it okay in the backend Events > events e.g. All (6) | Published (6) ?

Yes. What was interesting was we deleted the widget and re-added it. The 1970 was resolved on the widget side, however it was still displaying on the page (i.e. when you went to view a listing of the events). We then upgraded to the latest version and so far we have not seen this issue.

I just find it puzzling that it appears all of sudden and then disappears.