Hi luminus18,
The Events Calendar by itself does not integrate with bit.ly, so I’m not sure why this would happen. Perhaps you are using another plugin or service that handles this?
Hi Barry,
Thanks for your reply.
I have no plugin or service that pushes urls to bit.ly, which has made the experience even more disturbing. Within 2 days ended up with THOUSANDS of events-based urls in bit.ly.
To try to avoid this situation, I have rolled back to the previous version of The Events Calendar plugin, and continuous push of events-based urls to bit.ly has stopped.
Clearly the matter has not been resolved, but some form of damage control was desperately needed :-).
Nevertheless, I look forward to whatever additional insights you (or someone else) might be able share on this matter.
I’m not sure there is too much more insight we can offer here.
I’m assuming these event related URLs were being pushed to your own bit.ly account, so there must be a link somewhere between your WordPress site and your bit.ly account – whether implemented through a plugin or an external service – or else I don’t see how this could happen (unless I’m simply misunderstanding your description of events).
Perhaps you could pose the question to bit.ly themselves and ask how and why these links are being ‘pushed’ onto their service? Typically, though I’m not familiar with bit.ly, this sort of thing would be implemented via the service’s API and an API key or some other means of authentication would need to be used by whatever tool or service is doing this (and by extension you would have had to supply those details, whether in the form of an API key or something else) … so probably you are in the best position to investigate this.
It’s not something I have seen any other reports of and I don’t really see how it can happen with our plugin in isolation, I’m afraid.
