Don’t Upgrade to 7.3.1

  • a2withkids

    (@a2withkids)


    2 months, 1 week ago

    Update: After 7 weeks, and days of effort on my part, I was able to track down the issue. You need to have pre-publishing checks on to publish an event with the new version. Seems like a use case that should have been tested before release, or if known included in upgrade notes.
    My notes about the blocks not having the full capability of shortcodes are still relevant. And one other item – the online documentation is several versions behind. It predates repeating/recurring event shift.

    I have been using Events Manager since late 2015 and was so excited to hear it now offers blocks in place of shortcodes & is now offering Gutenberg to edit events.

    Thankfully I decided to test it out on my staging site first. I cannot publish events when I upgrade. It just saves them as drafts. I’ve tried turning off all other plugins & reverting to 2025 theme, and same behavior. Several years ago, I’d already figured out how to use REST settings to use Gutenberg in events, so maybe a conflict there, but I tried getting rid of that and it still didn’t work.

    But, that aside I also tested out the new Events List block and it’s got some limitations that make it a good first step, but I probably will have to stick with shortcodes.
    * Can’t set a custom scope. This rules out probably 90% of my use cases.
    * Can set a category filter, can’t use a Tag or search filter
    * The block includes an h3 heading that you can’t leave out – if you leave it blank, rather than skip a header it uses Events
    * If you don’t set an output format (advanced) rather than pull the format you have defined as a shortcode would, it pulls its own format. I haven’t looked to see if you can set this format somewhere.
    * in setting output format, you can set header and footer, which is interesting as that’s a deprecated feature in shortcodes due to security risk of malicious html.

    All in all, the block is a great start, but it needs some enhancements to replace a shortcode. And obviously being able to publish events help.

    • This topic was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by a2withkids.
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  • Plugin Author Marcus

    (@msykes)

    2 months, 1 week ago

    Hello, thanks for the feedback. We’ve just released this so obviously some quirks will exist and we certainly will close those gaps, along with many more improvements.

    I see that you did submit a support thread, and jon already let us know about it – we’re on it – so I’m wondering if you could give us a chance to help out with that stuff before jumping to a 1-star review after having used the plugin for 11+ years?

    Blocks are essentially a wrapper for shortcode (which in turn wraps our PHP functions), they won’t add any exatra functionality to output (if it does, it’d still be because shortcodes implemented them first).

    Thread Starter a2withkids

    (@a2withkids)

    2 weeks, 3 days ago

    After days of effort tracking this down on my test server with suggestions from Gemini & ChatGPT and changing settings, turning off all other plugins, changing to a simple theme, adding functions to try to override things, it turned out to be the simplest fix.

    I was publishing directly instead of running Pre-Publishing Checks. That was the problem. It will only publish if you have pre-publishing checks on. Something ChatGPT had me check clued me in that this was a difference.

    I turned publishing checks on and it works and I know have it on my production site. It’s a couple extra clicks every time I publish anything, but it is working. (And something for you to investigate now that I have found the cause).

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