Conflict with Woocommerce plugin (The Events Calendar will not be shown)

Hey stouDy,

Thanks for reaching out!

It sounds like there may be a conflict with another plugin using the same “events” slug. If it fixes itself when WooCommerce is deactivated, there are a couple of things you can check.

1. Check the WooCommerce extensions on your site and deactivate them one by one to see if there is a specific extension causing the conflict.
2. Check the Settings > Permalinks tab within your dashboard and ensure that none of the WooCommerce specific options there also have the “events” slug as the setting

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

Hi BeardedGinger,

Thank you for your answer.

Unfortunately I already tried to deactivate my WooCommerce plugin. I have only one plugin installed from Woocommerce, so it was not difficult to find out which plugin is in conflict with the Events calendar plugin.
I already checked the settings concerning permalinks, I changed permalinks and its always the same mistake. NO CALENDAR SHOWING!

I suppose the mistake could arise from the following:

I have an empty site called “Events” where the calender should be showed. When I write some content onto the site, then this content is available, but not the calendar. I think the Events Calendar plugin normally tries to create a new page and overwrites the empty page to display the events calendar, but now the Events Calendar plugin cannot overwrite this empty page, for whatever reason, and shows the empty page with the content I wrote in it. Because if I change the permalink to from “/events/” to “events-test”, I cannot reach the Events Calendar furthermore in the navigation, but when I want to reach the “/events/” permalink manually NOW, the Events Calendar is been showed. It just doesn’t work now in the navigation.

I hope I get more answers for this issue, because its very important for me.

I think now it is definetly a conflict with woocommerce because its just not showing the Events Calendar Overview page if the Woocommerce plugin is activated. The single event pages and so on are reachable anyway if I call them. How I said, if I change the permalink of the “/events/” page from “/events/” to “/test/”, then I cannot reach the page under “/test/”, but under “/events/”. So I decided to insert a Redirect from “/test/” to “/events/”.

UNfortunately this is a dirty hack, but I cannot find another solution. It would be really great if someone could tell me a better idea, because I don’t want to leave it like this.

Hi @stoudy,

Sorry to hear about the problems you’re having here. They’re odd because many people use The Events Calendar and WooCommerce together with no issue.

Is there any way you could do other tests on your site like switching to a default theme (like Twenty Twelve/Thirteen/etc.) and then trying out deactivating and re-activating WooCommerce, noting the behavior of the calendar page after doing so?

Additionally, you can see if any errors pop up on your site if you head to your site’s wp-config.php file and change this line of code:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

to this:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

That will display PHP errors on your site if any exist, which can help.

Thanks!
George

Hi George,

I already switched the theme. And the problem could not be the theme, because I bought a theme called Spiritual, and the both plugins worked together in the beginning, but after some changes it didn’t work anymore, but I don’t know what I made wrong.

I am only getting some errors concerning my sidebars if I set Debug mode to “true”, so unfortunately that also doesn’t help.

Greetings

Ben

Hi stouDy.

Just out of curiosity: did anything change on the site between the time it was working and when the issue started happening. It would be very odd for issues to pop up suddenly without something having been updated or changed in between. Did you update WordPress, your theme or any plugins? It’s worth noting that some hosting providers make silent updates to sites automatically, which is worth checking as well.

Cheers!
Geoff

Hi stouDy, this happened to me too.

My solution:

1. Deactivate both plugin
2. DELETE the events page created
3. Activate the events calendar plugin
4. Activate woocommerce

hope this works for you.