Title: Calendar next button does not work
Last modified: September 19, 2026

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# Calendar next button does not work

 *  [kkhkkl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kkhkkl/)
 * (@kkhkkl)
 * [1 week, 4 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calendar-next-button-does-not-work/)
 * **Plugin version:** 1.3.18
   **WordPress version:** 7.1.1**Theme:** Kadence
 * **Setup:**
   The site’s front page (Settings → Reading → “A static page”) displays
   a Page that contains a `[calendar type="mini"]` shortcode in a sidebar widget
   area.The same page also contains a `[calendar type="upcoming"]` shortcode elsewhere,
   which correctly lists upcoming events.
 * **Steps to reproduce:**
    1. Visit the front page (a static Page, not the blog index).
    2. In the `[calendar type="mini"]` widget, click the “next month” navigation link(
       URL becomes something like `?calendar_month=oct&calendar_yr=2026`
       appended to
       the front page URL).
 * **Expected result:**
   The calendar should advance to show October, including the
   events already confirmed to exist that month (the same events display correctly
   via `[calendar type="upcoming"]`on the same page).
 * **Actual result:**
   The entire main content area and sidebar are replaced by the
   theme’s generic “nothing found” search/archive template(header, main menu and
   footer remain intact — only the main query content changes). When logged in as
   an administrator, the page additionallyshows WordPress’s standard “Ready to publish
   your first post?” prompt — the message normally shown only on an empty blog posts
   index.This strongly suggests the month-navigation request is somehow causing 
   WordPress’s main query to resolve as the blog posts index instead of the static
   front page.
 * **Notes:**
    - The plugin’s WordPress.org listing states “Tested up to: 6.9.8” — this site
      runs WordPress 7.1.1, which is newer than the plugin’s stated compatibility
      range.
      This may be relevant to the bug.
    - Reproduced identically on two separate installs of the same site (staging 
      and production), same plugin/theme versions, same result.
    - Setting a dedicated “Posts page” under Settings → Reading (previously blank)
      did not resolve the issue.
    - The `[calendar type="upcoming"]` shortcode on the same page is unaffected 
      and correctly shows events for the following month.
    - No other plugin/theme conflict identified so far (tested with all other plugins
      active as normal).
 * Happy to provide more detail (site URL, screenshots, or a temporary admin login)
   if useful for reproducing this.

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 *  Thread Starter [kkhkkl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kkhkkl/)
 * (@kkhkkl)
 * [3 days, 16 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calendar-next-button-does-not-work/#post-19030609)
 * _Update: WordPress has since updated to 7.1.2 (from 7.1.1). I re-tested on the
   staging site and the issue is unchanged — the “next month” link still replaces
   the page content with the empty blog-archive template instead of advancing the
   calendar. So this isn’t version-specific to 7.1.1._
 * _To reiterate from my original report: this is not a case of a misconfigured 
   or wrong-pointing link — the link is generated by the plugin itself, unedited,
   and correctly targets the same page the calendar is displayed on. I mention this
   because I noticed another older topic in this forum that was resolved by pointing
   out the calendar was embedded on the wrong page — that is not the situation here._

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