Title: Not Doing Automatic Event Updates Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Not Doing Automatic Event Updates * Resolved [d5f7p9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d5f7p9/) * (@d5f7p9) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/) * Version 2 and 2.01 are not doing automatic updates of events. It does do a manual update by clicking on either “Clear Cache” or “Update” but obviously I don’t want to have to go in each day and do a manual update. The plugin was working fine on version 0.7.3.1 on Sept 10 just prior to the update to version 2. Our Feed Settings are listed below, which I believe were all copied over automatically and correctly from version 0.7. Feed Shortcode: [gcal id=”13909”] Search Query: Blank Expand Recurring Events: Checked Retrieve Events From: Today Retrieve Events Until: The end of time Max Number of Events: 11 Date Format: Blank Time Format: Blank Timezone Adjustment: Los Angeles Cache Duration: 7200 Display Mode: Grid Widget Settings (We only use the plugin in a sidebar widget) Title: Blank Feeds: 13909 Display events as: Grouped List Max no. of events to display. Enter 0 to show all retrieved: 0 Sort Order: Ascending Display title on tooltip/list item( also no longer works): Events on See the bottom right column of our homepage to see the outdated event list. When working correctly the oldest date should be the current date. [http://www.stmarklacey.org](http://www.stmarklacey.org) * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/) Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [jpmolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpmolin/) * (@jpmolin) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305806) * I have the same problem : no update automatic in the widget Only clear cache manually ! * Http ://www.vytajog.fr * Plugin Contributor [Nick Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickyoung87/) * (@nickyoung87) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305809) * What happens if you change your cache time to a lower value? Does it work better when you do that? * [jpmolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpmolin/) * (@jpmolin) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305814) * Actualy cache time is 21600 (6h) * Thread Starter [d5f7p9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d5f7p9/) * (@d5f7p9) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305867) * Nick, I just now reset “Cache Duration” to 1. I did follow that up right now with “Update”. That does update the events, but as I noted earlier just using“ Update” itself with no “Cache Duration” change does do a manual update. So I will have to wait 24 hours before I can tell whether automatic updates occur or not. * Thread Starter [d5f7p9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d5f7p9/) * (@d5f7p9) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305880) * Nick, it is now showing no events and kicking out the following error message.“ Connection time-out Please ensure your feed URL is correct. There are currently no events to display.” I’ll try changing it to 3600, which is half of what it was originally. * Thread Starter [d5f7p9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d5f7p9/) * (@d5f7p9) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305884) * Nick, using 3600 does not give the Connection Timeout error message but it does still say “There are no events to display”. And that “There are no events to display” message takes a long time to appear. Interestingly during that long wait for that message to appear, our top of page banner slideshow spins away trying to load also. And the correct slideshow appears at about the same time as the “There are no events to display” message appears. * At this point, I have changed the Cache Duration back to 7200 which was what it was when I first communicated with you yesterday. And things are back to how they were working yesterday. ie All eleven events appear normally with no delay and the banner slideshow is back to working normally. It will probably take some time (24 hours?) to see if the automatic event updates work any differently. * Thread Starter [d5f7p9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d5f7p9/) * (@d5f7p9) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305913) * Nick, with the Cache Duration set back at 7200 the automatic updating of events is still not working. Since changing that value to smaller values just caused additional problems, I have now tried setting it to a larger value, namely your default number of 43200. We will see what happens. * In my initial post to you, I listed all my feed settings and widget settings. What I did not give you was the “short code” settings that version 2 automatically generated from the 0.7 short code settings. I list those below. Do they look right? * As displayed on visual tab: [event-title] [if-not-all-day] [start-time]-[end- time] [/if-not-all-day] [if-location] Location: [location] [/if-location] * As displayed on text tab:

[event- title]

[if-not-all-day] [start-time]-[end-time] [/if-not-all-day] [if-location] Location: [location] [/if-location] * Plugin Contributor [Phil Derksen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pderksen/) * (@pderksen) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305932) * Just released patch 2.0.3.1. * If you decide to try it please let us know if it fixes the issue. If not, please give us details and we’ll try to fix it soon. * Thanks. * Thread Starter [d5f7p9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d5f7p9/) * (@d5f7p9) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305933) * Just to summary what I have seen so far on version 2.0.2 Cache Duration=1 – Kicks out error message “Connection Timeout” Cache Duration=3600 – Clears cache and then neither auto or manual updates work. Cache Duration=7200 – Clears Cache and then manual update works but auto update still does not work. Cache Duration =43200(the default) – Clears Cache and then manual update works but auto update still does not work. * I have now just installed your latest version 2.0.3.1 I don’t see any immediate auto update (ie Deletion of yesterday’s events and replacement of those events with future events which already exist on the calendar at Google.) You didn’t say, but does the latest update to version 2.0.3.1 requires a “Clear Cache” command after installing it in order to implement it? * Plugin Contributor [Nick Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickyoung87/) * (@nickyoung87) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305945) * Yes you will probably need to clear your cache after the 2.0.3.1 upgrade. Mainly because it fixes some issues with the caching so to reset it completely on your side should help. * Thread Starter [d5f7p9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d5f7p9/) * (@d5f7p9) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305947) * Sometime between yesterday morning when I installed 2.0.3.1 and this morning, our site did its first auto event update since we first installed version 2.0 eleven days ago. And that was without even clearing the cache. Based on your comment above to clear the cache to reset it completely, I will do that also. Thanks * [jpmolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpmolin/) * (@jpmolin) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305952) * It is now OK :the cache is automaticly updated Thanks * Plugin Contributor [Nick Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickyoung87/) * (@nickyoung87) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305959) * Great glad to hear that! Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘Not Doing Automatic Event Updates’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/google-calendar-events/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1263960) * [Simple Calendar - Google Calendar Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-calendar-events/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-calendar-events/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-calendar-events/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-calendar-events/reviews/) ## Tags * [Updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updates/) * 13 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Nick Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickyoung87/) * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-doing-automatic-event-updates/#post-5305959) * Status: resolved