Error message and Visual Composer

1. I have not seen anything about this error. Does it happen frequently? Any specific actions that seem to cause it happening?

2. Can you post what you are using for the event builder codes so I can see how you are adding it all together?

Thanks!

1. Yes, unfortunately it happens frequently and I could not filter out any specific actions that would cause that error. The last view times the error occurred when I was opening my site the first time at that day. But it also happened when I was changing things e. g. displaying settings like from h2 to h3 in the backend.

My guess is that my webhosting server might be too slow or to busy. Could that be a possible reason?
Another guess would be any wrong settings at the Google Calendar platform.

The funny thing is that I used the option to show two feeds in one calendar and most of the time one of the two is working properly and the other one not. But the feeds with the error occurring are changing.

2. My Code from the Event-Feed:

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]
[start-date]
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]
[event-title]
[start-time],?[if-location]?[location][/if-location]
[if-description]
Beschreibung: [description]
[link newwindow="true"]Details...[/link]
[/if-description][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_separator type="normal" position="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Thanks!

1. Hmm ok that is odd. It could be an issue with the webhost but there are other things we can try first to narrow it down.

1a. Can you show me what shortcodes you are actually using to output the calendar.

1b. You could also try the steps here to see if this helps resolve any of it: https://wpdocs.philderksen.com/google-calendar-events/misc/theme-and-plugin-conflicts/

2. I have not used VC before and I am not sure if this is a problem or not, but it looks like your first row has 2 columns abd your second row only has 1 column? Could this be causing the error in the output that is happening? Again, I have not used VC so I am not sure exactly how it works so sorry if this is incorrect.

1a. Here are the shortcodes I’m using:

[start-date]
[event-title]

[start-time], [if-location] [location][/if-location]
[if-description]

Beschreibung: [description]
[link newwindow="true"]Details...[/link]
[/if-description]

And there you can see my settings on two screenshots:
Number one
Number two

1b. I’ve already tried this possibilities before I wrote my ticket.

2. I don’t think that the missing column causes the problem.
Is it possible, that I have to add a piece of code which tells wordpress which shortcode to interpret? e. g. something like <?php echo do_shortcode('gcal'); ?>?
Or are you the wrong person to ask and I have to talk to the provider of my theme?

thx

1a. Sorry for the confusion, I meant the actual shortcode you use on the page.

I don’t really see any problems that stick out to me with your settings. I will try and test this out to see if I can nail it down.

Thanks for all the debugging info you are providing.

1a. Do you have all required informations now or do you need to know any further details?

You are very welcome. I am as well as you interested in solving the problems.

I would just like to see what the shortcode is that you are using to actually display the calendar something like

[gcal id=”xxx”]
or
[google-calendar-events id=”xxx”]

Also, did you try closing the column to see if that helped any?

Oh sorry – here is the shortcode:
[gcal id="18023, 18022" interval="events" interval_count="10" paging="true"]

I completely deleted the second row because it was just a separator and unfortunately it did not change anything.

And I have some new perceptions regarding the “Failed to connect … ” error: If this error is shown I always have a rather long loading time. If there is now error, the site loads immediately.

Alright the shortcode looks like it should not have any problems.

Where are you including the VC shortcodes? Is that on the page around the content and the GCal shortcode is within it?

I am including the VS shortcodes on the Feed site. But only for the feed with the gcal id 18022. I am not using any shortcodes for the other feed.

Both of the feeds [gcal id=”18023, 18022″ … I am then showing on a normal content site with no further VC shortcodes.

Is there any chance not working with shortcodes? Maybe this might solve the problem.

Does it work correctly if you do remove the VC shortcodes?

What about displaying the single calendar with the VC by itself without the other feed, do you still get the issue? Wondering if it has something to do with both the feeds being combined and only one of them is actually using the VC.

I have got some news from the testing:

1. I have solved the problem with the VC shortcodes by doing a hardcoding-work-around – wohooo! I should have thought of it earlier …
Some extra information for you: I did not make any difference in the appearance if I only displayed the feed with the VC shortcodes. So the combination of shortcode and not-shortcode feed was not the reason of the error.

2. The “Failed to connect …” error is still there. But now it says “Keine anstehenden Termine” which means “No upcoming events”.
I also witnessed that this error accurs more often on the “styled” feed then on the other “normal, yet not styled” one. Because if I combine the two feeds the only the yet not styled one is shown and there is know error string from the other one.

3. As we got so far – a little problem appears too: the paging is not shown …

thx

Are you showing your list by using “show X events” option? If yes, then that is expected as the paging only works on lists that are showing an amount of days and not just for lists displaying a set number of events to show.

Oh, well, thanks – that was an easy one!

Hi!

Just a quick question: is it possible to export just one event and not the whole feed?

thx