Restore event page?

  • Resolved brettwyker

    (@brettwyker)


    8 years ago

    I have been trying to set up an event search form, but I have deleted the default “Events” page and the subpages (i.e., locations, categories, tags.) So, when I setup a page that included the Event_Search_Form shortcode and submit the search it tries to go to:

    https://mysite.com/wordpress/events/

    and I get this error: “404 – File or directory not found.
    The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”

    When I’ve selected another page as the Event Page in the setting, I still get this error. Is there something I need to do to the new Event Page? Or is there a way to set up a search form using the archive page?

    Thanks,
    Brett

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  • caimin_nwl

    (@caimin_nwl)

    Hi Brett,

    Do you have a page under Pages > All Pages that uses the permalink slug /events/ ?

    If not, make one, then select that page as “Events page” under Events > Settings > Pages > Event List/Archives.

    Thread Starter brettwyker

    (@brettwyker)

    Thanks for the response. Sorry I did not mention it in my original post, but, yes, I’ve tried this. I created the /events/ page (along with the sub pages), with and without the word “CONTENTS” in the body (I believe “CONTENTS” was included in the original event page by default). When I view this /events/ page before I assign it as the Event Page in the List/Archives setting, I just get a blank page (or “CONTENTS” if I included that). Then, once I assign the page as the Event Page in the List/Archives setting and go to view the /events/ page, it gives me the “404 (PAGE NOT FOUND)” error, as if the page no longer exists. Accordingly, when I use my search form, the search goes to the /events/ page and comes back with the same error.

    One other thing worth mentioning, my site is set up outside of the main directory (not sure why), so the pages are actually like this: https://mysite.com/index.php/events. I don’t think this would matter if I am manually assigning the page to be used as the events page, but did notice it affects the archive page. If I have the archive events turned on in the setting the events page with the list of events is not on the defualt https://mysite.com/events, but rather https://mysite.com/index.php/events. In other words, if I don’t assign an event page and have the archives on, I get the 404 error at /events and a working events page at /index.php/events. If I use the search form with these setting, the search tries to go to https://mysite.com/events NOT /index.php/events and gives me the 404 error. I figured out how to change the /events/ slug to /index.php/events and I’m still having the same problem.

    Also, for what its worth, I am using the latest version of the X theme (4.6.4) and have also tried this using version: 3.3.1 of the Fruitful theme. Same results.

    Appreciate any help fixing this.

    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by brettwyker.
    caimin_nwl

    (@caimin_nwl)

    It’s possible this is a conflict caused by your theme or another plugin. To check if it is, can you test with all other plugins deactivated and while running the default WordPress theme?

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