Widget: the link to the calendar page is not working

Funny that I should find this thread. I had the same problem. I am submitting events using the wpForms plugin. It’s really great, but it’s cost me almost a freakin’ week to find this problem. What

I am using wpForms to create and store events using “The Event Calendar”. I couldn’t get the event to display, though. When I went to the wp dashboard and examined the event entries, I noticed that the “site url” entry was blank. I didn’t worry because the permalink shown at the top of the content field was correct. It still didn’t work. Then, by trying everything, I discovered that if I set the site URL directly in the wp dashboard, the permalink would link to the event. The site URL wasn’t being set by the wpForms shortcode. But since it looked good on the admin form, I didn’t worry about it. But, surprise, when I entered it manually, the event would link properly. FYI, for my configuration, the events list displayed in url=https://xxxx.org/events/? .

What was confusing is that in the Events dashboard there was a permalink to the event post that could be clicked, but then on the site I got a message that there was probably an error on the URL because it couldn’t find the link. I floundered for a couple of days time, almost gave up, but then finally noticed that the site URL was blank in the Events Admin entry form. When I set it, the permalink did the trick. It confused me that the permalink was set but clicking it didn’t display the event. I had to add it. That seems non-intuitive, but it did work for me.

I did find that entries made in the Events dashboard directly, without using the wpForms plugin did post the event, though, So, my comments may not solve your issue.

Like several others have said, before modification, clicking on the “View Calendar” link at the bottom of the widget takes you back to my home page.

I have the current version of this plugin 6.0.9.

I am not using Pretty Permalinks either and have not changed for fear of causing other problems.

I found that the “View Calendar” link is called from the widget-events-list/view-more.php file.

I found a brute force “modification that works for me”. If I change the href= in that file from href=”<?php echo esc_url( $view_more_link ); ?> to my_website_domain/?post_type=tribe_events then clicking on the View Calendar link works.

The sad part is that each time the plugin is updated, I have to manually go back in and change this href.

I am not sure where the $view_more_link is set or what value it has when it gets to this point. I don’t believe it is empty because the code I changed is after the empty / return condition statement.

NOTE: One last note I just discovered. On the plugin “settings” page the Events URL Slug shows the location as domain?post_type=tribe_events. There is NO / after the domain name and before the ? The settings page says the slug cannot be edited because I am not using pretty permalinks. However, as I stated above, my manual fix includes the / before the ? and it works. Hopefully, the plugin authors can fix the “settings” and make this work for all of us without needing to modify any code.

I will add this to my previous support request post also.