Countdown widget auto select event showing old event

  • Hi

    I’m using the countdown widget and have set the ‘select event’ setting to auto, which worked initially, but once the first even date/time has passed, it is still showing that event, with countdown as 0,0,0. When I click on the event, it takes me to an old event (2nd Sept 2016).

    Surely the countdown with the auto setting should count down to the next scheduled event, not just the first event?

    See – https://www.harborough-feathers.co.uk/

    It’s a neat widget, but if it doesn’t work, then I’ll have to remove it from the site.

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  • Thread Starter jafannonwp

    (@jafannonwp)

    As an update – I’ve just looked at the events list and found that the old event was showing as “Missed Schedule”. I’ve manually published the event and the countdown is now showing the correct event.

    Any ideas what is causing the “Missed Schedule”?

    Roch

    (@rochesterj)

    Hi!

    This may happen when the event time passes and no event data is added (such as scores or event result)

    Kind Regards,
    -Roch

    Thread Starter jafannonwp

    (@jafannonwp)

    Turns out the “missed schedule” was happening for all scheduled posts in our WP site. I contacted the host and found that they have disabled http loopbacks, which is the cause in this case.

    For now we have added the following to the wp-config.php to work around the issue:

    define(‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true );

    I’m hoping that the host will enable http loopbacks as the above is not the recommended approach.

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