no posts for events and links point to home_url("/about")

  • Resolved twest820

    (@twest820)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Simple hello world test of WP Meetup on WordPress 3.8.1 running localhost under WebMatrix 3.0 on Windows 8.1. No issues with install, key, entry, or event download. But Posts -> All Posts contains no posts for the events. Both the calendar shortcode and WP Meetup -> Events render all events with their links pointing to home_url(“/about”) rather than the post which should have been created or the meetup.com url. This makes the plugin unusable as there’s no way to filter which are events are displayed in a feed, render events to a post feed, or for users to follow links to meetup.com to RSVP.

    Known issue? Any fixes?

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  • Thread Starter twest820

    (@twest820)

    This was an issue with a permalink structure on the site. WP Meetup seems to lack any capability to update links and doesn’t clean its data when uninstalled. So, as a quick solution, I dropped the posts from wp_posts, dropped the wp_meetup_events table, reinstalled WP Meetup, and reimported events to put them on the new permalink structure. However, WP Meetup 2.1.11 ignores the site’s specified permalink structure and generates events using /events/%postname% instead.

    Incidentally, this explains meetup.com events not appearing in the post editor; they’re inserted into wp_posts with post_type = events rather than post_type = post. Events are also created with post_status = publish, comment_status = open, and ping_status = open.

    Plugin Author Nuanced Media

    (@nuanced-media)

    Hey twest820,

    We have had issues with events not being created in the correct permalink structure. It hasn’t been high priority in our list of bug fixes since it can corrected by going to your permalink settings and click save. Resetting the permalinks has fixed every case that we have come across. Is this what you meant, or do you mean that alternate permalink?

    With that said, we will add better permalink capability to our list of improvements that we need to work on.

    Also, we save events under a custom post type that isn’t visible because any changes that you make to the event in the post editor will be overwritten once the plugin updates. The WP Meetup plugin is designed to retrieve from Meetup.com, and never post to it. If you would like to change this then feel free to email me at [email protected] and I will happily show you how to edit the plugins code correctly. However this is something that is not suitable for the vast majority of our users.

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