[Plugin: Event Organiser] Somewhere in 1.5.x the archive-events.php template stopped working

Resolved John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago
Not sure why I didn’t notice this sooner, but I’m running three sites with Event Organiser, and I’ve recently updated each of those to either 1.5.4 or 1.5.5. I also updated to WordPress 3.4.2 but I don’t think that’s a factor here, though I could be wrong…

On each of those three sites the Events page that is using archive-event.php (my modified version) as a page template is no longer displaying any events. What it is displaying is the word “Events” as a link to nowhere, “Date:” and “Time” empty, and a link to “Event Details” that also goes nowhere.

In 1.4.2 the events were displayed correctly and pagination worked well.

I’ve been working on one of the sites and have integrated a new WP_Query into the loop, and now the events are displaying, but pagination isn’t working. I’ve been working on the pagination for a few hours now with no results.

Here’s the query code I added:
```
<?php $paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1; ?>
<?php $event_archive_query = new WP_Query( 'post_type=event&posts_per_page=2&paged='.$paged ); ?>
```
and my loop looks like:

<?php if ( $event_archive_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $event_archive_query->have_posts() ) : $event_archive_query->the_post(); ?>

So what I’m wondering is, did something happen from 1.4.2 to 1.5.x that broke archive-event.php, and now that I’m using WP_Query, what will I need to change or do to get pagination working in the event archive?

Thanks,
John

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-organiser/

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Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

Oddly enough, the taxonomy templates still seem to be working in 1.5.x, and single events are displaying correctly.

Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

I just updated one of my development sites to WordPress 3.4.2. The site still has Event Organiser 1.4.2 installed, and events are displaying like they should.

Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

11 years, 7 months ago

Is the pagination working also? I never used the plugin but there is no need for a new WP_Query in your post type archive archive-event.php to have posts show up from that post type.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Pagination#Troubleshooting_Broken_Pagination

Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

Stephen,

After I thought about this overnight, it didn’t make sense that archive-event.php wouldn’t be working, so I thought the issue was somewhere in the custom post type code, and this is what I found:

In version 1.5.x, line 177 of includes/event-organiser-cpt.php you had changed

'has_archive' => true,

to

'has_archive' => $events_slug,

I changed that back to true, uploaded the modified file, refreshed the permalinks, and we’re back in business.

John

Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

Marking as resolved…

Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

And I just realized that archive-events.php in the title of this thread should have been archive-event.php

Stephen Harris
(@stephenh1988)

11 years, 7 months ago

Hi John – this was added so that the archive page could have a different permlalink structure from the single event page. If you undo your changes, save the plug-in settings and flush the permalink – does this also resolve the issue? I will test it on a test site, but I suspect that the $events_slug doesn’t contain the default events/event string?

Also, instead of using a WP_Query you might want to use the pre_get_posts hook?

Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

Hey Stephen,

I’ll try that on a test site, hopefully today yet.

When the events started showing up again I did away with the WP_Query approach and reverted back to using your archive-event.php file as a template for my own.

My Event Settings > Permalinks settings for all three sites look like this:

Enable (yes)
Event (single): events
Event (archive): events/event
Venues: events/venues
Event Categories: events/category
Event Tags: events/tag

Though I don’t quite understand what’s happening with Event (archive) there, since on each site the events archive page just has “events/” in the URL? (Maybe that’s what you were getting at with your question?)

I’ll let you know how the testing goes.

Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

This seems to work with includes/event-organiser-cpt.php restored back to using the variable instead of ‘true’:

Event (single): event
Event (archive): events

I need to head out for a while, but I’ll do some more testing when I get back…

Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

And finally, in the end it seems that the permalink settings that I had for Event Organiser were not compatible with the addition of $events_slug, and all I really needed to do was make a simple edit to the permalinks. Here’s what I finally went with:

Event (single): events
Event (archive): events

Everything is back to normal. 🙂

Now, on to the next issue that isn’t really an issue…

Thread Starter John Sundberg
(@bhwebworks)

11 years, 7 months ago

Stephen, by the way, thanks for taking the time to produce and maintain Event Organiser. I’ve tried a couple others, and even though this one isn’t exactly plug and play, the end result is worth the time involved in integrating it into my sites.