[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Broken "View All" links and missing months

I just ran into this too, and what fixed it was changing the “Use Pretty URLs” setting to “No” under the Events Calendar settings page. Possibly not ideal if you need the easy-to-read links, but it got my calendar view working again.

Thank you! I was going nuts. Never really processed the disclaimer next to that setting that it might “interfere with custom themes or plugins” – I suppose because I didn’t think of the theme I was using as “custom”. I installed it straight from a search of WordPress themes and didn’t alter it in any way. But I guess that’s not what the disclaimer means.

Anyway, thanks again! Now I have to figure out where the CSS resides so I can start fixing up the formatting/presentation of the calendar and the sidebar “Upcoming Events”.

Well, turns out that’s ALMOST got it.

I can click “View All Events” and get to the calendar now. I can also move backwards and forwards through the months by clicking the previous and next months’ links. But when I try to go directly to a different month via the drop-down selector I still get the broken link screen. Not the end of the world, perhaps, but I can’t figure out why that’s not working correctly.

I ran into this as well. After setting Use Pretty URLs to No, I ran into Pixelologist’s latest issue. I fixed it by editing datepicker.php, which you can do in WordPress by going to admin -> Plugins -> Editor, selecting The Events Calendar in the dropdown on top, then selecting the file “the-events-calendar/views/datepicker.php”. I changed this:

$link .= '&eventDisplay=month&eventDate=';

To this:

$link = add_query_arg( array( 'eventDisplay' => 'month', 'eventDate' => '' ), $link );

Then I changed this:

location.href = '<?php echo $link; ?>' + jQuery('#<?php echo $prefix; ?>events-year').val() + '-' + jQuery('#<?php echo $prefix; ?>events-month').val();

To this:

location.href = '<?php echo $link; ?>=' + jQuery('#<?php echo $prefix; ?>events-year').val() + '-' + jQuery('#<?php echo $prefix; ?>events-month').val();

(i.e. I added an “=” after where it printed the $link)

Please let me know if there are any other spots where you see issues, and I’ll try to fix them. It seems like it’s working now.

Oops, left out a second change. I added the second change to the post. Hope it helps.

Thanks, jkeiser. It’s going to take me some time to parse this (not actually a coder, you know) but I’ll let you know how it goes for me. Are there any gotchas to copy/pasting code directly from your post?

You should be able to copy/paste as long as you have the same version of The Events Calendar that I do (1.6.5). If I were you I would keep a copy of the old file in Notepad or something just in case you mess up the copy/paste.

I came up with a better fix this morning, just the one line. Change this:

$link .= '&eventDisplay=month&eventDate=';

To this:

$link = add_query_arg( array( 'eventDisplay' => 'month' ), $link ) . '&eventDate=';

Don’t make any other changes to the file.

I’m on version 1.6.4. Haven’t upgraded due to the fact that the feedback thus far hasn’t instilled me with confidence that v.1.6.5 of The Events Calendar will be compatible with my current version of WordPress, which is 3.1.

It’s still likely a copy/paste replace will work, but you’ll have to check and see if it does. If it doesn’t work, change it back ??

I’ve only been using this for 2 days, and I only have 2 events. But this is the only issue I’ve had so far. Not a glowing endorsement, but it does at least seem to be doing things. ??