Hi Glenndm,
Which drop-downs are referring to (which page(s)?).
Regarding the drop-down custom field in an event definition, do you mean the drop-down in the custom fields metabox?
Lastly, “Not all existing custom fields are shown. f.e Pics is listed, Result is not”. What is ‘Pics’ and ‘Result’ in this context? The plug-in won’t display any custom fields by default, (but your theme might).
Hello Stephen,
* the filter dropdown lists:
Wordpress Dashboard/Events/All Events
to the right of the bulk action apply button:
The only option shown are: “View All categories”, “View all venues”, “View all events” for the 3 filters respectively.
*Drop-down custom field > yes the metadata box.
Pics & Result are fields created by me, my theme uses them if they are defined on an event.
The dropdown listbox in the event definition used to list those extra fields as well, but that is no longer the case since several versions. The list now comprises (what I think are) all wordpress fields.
I vaguely remember only my custom fields used to be listed, not the wordpress ones.
I just discovered there is a limit on the number of options that listbox can show. The options start with ‘Aliases’, “code”,… and end with ‘post_id”, ‘post_mime_type’. So options from “a” to “p”.
Pics sits in between and is shown.
As a test,I added a new custom field “GDM”. That one is listed as well, but now ‘post_mime_type’ has disappeared.
This is but a minor inconvenience.
best regards
glenn
The custom fields is handled entirely by WordPress. From memory the custom field key drop-down lists previously used meta keys (assuming they still exist in the database – that is, the posts that use them haven’t all been deleted). I doubt that has changed, but in any case, there’s nothing in Event Organiser that should alter that behaviour.
It’s very odd that the categories/venues/tags are not displayingin the field. Those drop-downs use get_terms() to fetch the taxonomy terms from the database.
Given the two issues are occurring together it would suggest that the database doesn’t contain the expected data: meta keys / terms. But it’s difficult to imagine how that might happen unless you’d had intentionally deleted the data / emptied the tables.
A possibility for the empty drop-down is a conflict with another plug-in. WordPress makes querying / returning terms modifiable by plug-ins, and it may well be such a plug-in is doing that.
I would first double check the database (or double check other admin screens to ensure that the taxonomy terms at least appear somewhere). If so, you’re next best bet is to check for a plug-in conflict. (Systematically disabling plug-ins to see if it fixes the problem).
