[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Showing blank event below actual events

Hi there TheChosen1. Thanks for the note here; this is an odd issue, and definitely not part of the core plugin behavior…so my guess is something else is at play.

Can you try a few things so we can confirm if this is a conflict? Namely:

* Make sure you’re running the latest version of WordPress.
* Make sure you have no earlier versions of the plugin running.
* It could be a permalinks-related issue. Resave your permalinks page to reset them. If you have permalinks turned off, turn them on with a structure like /%postname%/.
* Switch to a different templating option under Settings –> The Events Calendar, using the dropdown.
* Try to identify whether this is a conflict with another plugin. You can do so easily by deactivating any other plugins you’ve got active and checking whether the issue persists.
* If it isn’t a plugin conflict, it may be a theme one. If after deactivating all other plugins the issue persists, please revert to the default 2011 theme and test whether it’s an issue there.

Let me know how that goes, specifically the last two items, and I can try to troubleshoot (and bring in a dev to assist) as needed from there. Thanks for your patience so far – we’ll do what we can to get you through this.

Hi Rob

Thanks for your response,
I’ve followed your instructions and found that its the template file I’m using. I set the plugin to use custom page events.php that I created to display events, once I reverted to the default template it worked fine.

I’m struggling to figure out what went so wrong with my template though, do you mind having a look?
The code is in the link below:
https://pastebin.com/1YK9NX1Z

Cheers!

Hi again, TheChosen1. Thanks for the follow-up. While the cause of the problem in that template is outside my area of expertise, let me see if Jonah from our team has any ideas based on reviewing the pastebin link you provided. Stay tuned on that end and thanks again for your patience.

Hey TheChosen1,

Sounds strange and your code looks fine. Do you have an example of what you’re talking about I can take a look at or screenshot? It would be helpful to be able to look at the source on the page too…

Thanks,
Jonah

You can view the pages here:
https://tinyurl.com/9tvte63

There are actually three events that I have created but it only shows 2 for some reason, when you go to ‘previous events’ it shows two blank events.
When reverting to default template it will show all three items and there is nothing in past events (how it should be).

The template I have used is exactly as shown as in the pastebin link.
I have not changed any other files, both wordpress and the plugin are up to date too.

Hi TheChosen1,

Did you ever have any other events plugins installed? I’m wondering if this is where the blank events are coming from?

Have you tried just using your theme’s page.php or full page template (if it has one?) without any of the Tribe template code like you have in the example code posted? I’m thinking this may be the problem. The plugin will be able to override the content of your regular theme page template so you don’t need the extra Tribe template code.

So, either use the Default Events Template and add your theme’s markup to that template file or use your theme’s regular template code and select that as the template.

I hope that helps!

– Jonah

I havent installed any other calender plugins prior to this.
As I stated I created a new template file called events.php which the code shown in pastebin link and then simply selected that as the template on the plugins settings templates tab.

I have not used a page.php file, I used events.php which has codes the codes that include the plugins time:

<?php include(tribe_get_current_template()); ?>

Does this need to be in some kind of loop? Maybe that is the reason.

I’ve reverted to just changing the default template file instead of using my own custom file and it does work.
But I would like to know what was the issue, the only line I did not have would be line 14 which is:
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) { die('-1'); }

Hi TheChosen1,

I believe the issue is as i stated, that by using the Tribe default template code in your custom template, it duplicated the code (because the plugin overrides your page template with that code anyway).

So, if you are using your page.php template or a custom page template, you should not have the tribe_get_current_template() code in it. The plugin knows to use this when on the events pages.

Glad you worked this out. Let me know if there anything else you need.

– Jonah

Thanks Rob and Jonah for your help! I appreciate it.

You’re welcome, do did that fix it for you? Just wondering if I can mark this as resolved?

Done

Glad to hear this got you where you need to be, TheChosen1. Thanks again for using the plugin and please let us know what else we can do down the road.