dylannickelson

donovanacker,

I noticed that there was a problem with AIO’s handling of repeat events the first time that I entered a repeat event in GC. So, I stopped entering events as repeats in Google Calendar. Weighing up the hassle of having to enter repeat events individually, the aesthetics of AIO compared the ugliness of Google Calendar’s iframe webpage display and the features and aesthetics of other calendar plugins, I decided that it was worth sticking with AIO.

But then there’s the problem of the problem repeat events that are already in your Google calendar. Here’s a workaround that I use to “sync” GC and AIO. It will work okay if there is one GC and AIO administrator, if you only have one or two problem repeat events, and if you only need to update AIO once a weeks or so:

(0) Make sure that you’ve unsubscribed your GC feed in AIO through the WP admin interface;
(1) Update GC;
(2) Delete all events in AIO;
(3) Subscribe your GC feed in AIO;
(4) Update the GC feed in AIO;
(5) Unsubscribe your GC feed in AIO;
(6) Go to the AIO events in WP admin and delete the problem repeat event.

Now you have AIO truthfully reflecting the info in your GC. I just run through this procedure once a week. I usually don’t need to update events more often than this, and when I do I just run through the steps again. It takes one minute.

yani.iliev, it might be worth including a “never” Auto-refresh option in settings. This would permit admins to only manually update their AIO events calendar if the wish and not have to worry about AIO retrieving these problem events from their GCs automatically hourly, twice-daily or daily.

Excellent on all counts.

One question:

On item (2), excluding past events, is the plugin set up to “feed back to” Google calendar when it updates hourly, twice daily or daily? That is, have you set it up so that any events added through the WP admin interface (“Events” –> “Add New”) load back in to the subscribed Google Calendar feed?

I’m just trying to work out why the events are disappearing from my Google calendar as well as from my AIO Events calendar once those events have passed. Having thought about it, the only way I can think that AIO might be the problem is if AIO feeds events back to or talks back to the Google calender with some command that the Google calendar events should mirror the events in AIO, thereby (at present) deleting all past events from the Google calendar.

Cool.

1. I thought I submitted a ticket on this a couple of weeks ago, but I can’t find it at trac.the-seed.ca, so thanks for having a look.

2. No. What seems to be happening is AIO Events Calendar deletes past events from my Google Calendar when the two do their daily sync. The frustration comes with (1) having all past events deleted from my Google Calendar (I like to be able to access this info when I have to write annual reports) and (2) having visitors to the site not be able to see the past events that my organisation has hosted. Here is where my calendar is posted, and here’s the original Google calendar. You’ll notice that as the events pass they disappear from my Google Calendar. The only events that are deleted are those that are shared publicly and, therefore, synced with the AIO calendar. All of my private meetings, etc do not get deleted when the date passes. From what I can gather based on Google searches, this is not an uncommon problem with devices and programs that sync with Google calendar, but I can’t seem to find where the problem lies.

3. As for the bug reports, I read this message on your site:

Important Notice: We are busy working on the next release of the plugin and aren’t able to accept any more bug reports, feature requests or support requests until after it’s released. Thank you for your patience!

and took it to mean that you were not accepting bug reports while you worked on the next release. My bad.

I still believe this is the best WP plugin I’ve ever used, and definitely the best calendar plugin.

I’ll do my best.

So, because you give this plugin away for free I have no right to be annoyed when it doesn’t delete through the WP admin interface.

There are loads of great plugins that people in the WP community produce and maintain for free, and when I want to delete those plugins they can be seamlessly removed through the WP admin interface. Why can’t your free plugin do the same.

Lack of remuneration is no reason for producing stuff that doesn’t work. Nevertheless, I apologise.

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Things now work fine.

I too can publish and update pages without images.

Awesome work by you Slompy, and by JustHost.

That pretty much indicates that JustHost is likely the source of the problem.

Now we just need some help in identifying what the problem could be.

Same here.

Same problem here.

When I edit a page through the WordPress graphic user interface at

https://domainname.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=56&action=edit

and then click “Update”, the page refreshes to

https://domainname.com/wp-admin/post.php

resulting in a 404 error, when it should refresh to

https://domainname.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=56&action=edit&message=1

This didn’t happen before I auto-upgraded to 3.1.1

Just to give a little more information, my blog is at https://thelydianmode.com and for each AddtoAny menu in my page I get two validation errors:

# Error Line 322, Column 31: document type does not allow element “script” here; assuming missing “li” start-tag

<script type=”text/javascript”>

# Error Line 329, Column 5: end tag for “li” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

</div>

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to “self-close” an element, that is, ending it with “/>” instead of “>”.

The errors seem to be associated with how the javascript for the pop-up AddtoAny menu is placed in the page.