Rant, and how do people see events in the widget?

  • Resolved gkbenji

    (@gkbenji)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    tl;dr: 3.X is totally broken on my site. This webmaster is not happy.

    First, I’ll soften this a bit by saying that this has been a great plugin and I appreciate all the time you have put into it to provide it for free.

    However, the 3.X update completely broke my calendars. This is not an update. By doing a complete rewrite and renaming it, it is a different plugin, albeit with similar functionality. I might just as well delete everything and start from scratch. I am fortunate that I read “What’s new” before clicking “Update” on my actual site, and had a test site I could try it out on. Others were not so lucky.

    Okay, rant over, sorry. I have one main question, and few other comments.

    1. How do you see events in the widget? I found this in another thread here:

    “[Not so much a feature request as a bug report. Tooltips on hover should work but do not.]
    This was done intentionally for the widget grid when it is in a “responsive” state.
    Thank you guys for the feedback will note this down as a feature request to discuss with the team.”

    After the update, the calendar widget in the sidebar shows a highlighted date and dot on days with events. No tooltip with hover, and not even clickable. So, my question is: what good is it then? A calendar where people can’t see what the events are is useless.

    Am I missing something here?

    2. Custom styling is completely broken. Reorganizing and renaming all the classes threw all my styling work out the window. Not cool.

    3. Given how often you keep telling people to turn on “Always enqueue scripts”, perhaps that should have been the default. I believe it was in the 2.X version. Until I checked that box, my calendar didn’t even show up. I get that it’s a performance thing, but please think about making that default the other way around: enqueue unless performance is an issue.

    IMO you should have just said, “We’re discontinuing support of Google Calendar Events, but we have this great new plugin called Simple Calendar you might want to try.”

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/

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  • Thread Starter gkbenji

    (@gkbenji)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Any updates?

    Regardless of whether the bug on my site is fixed, however, if the mouseover/popup for events in the widget is no longer a feature, the new version of the plugin is no longer of use to me. There isn’t space on my site for the widget to list all the events (I use another calendar plugin for a full-page calendar with that info). IMO the popup feature worked just fine on mobile devices (android, Apple) and I’m disappointed you’d just remove it and not at least allow it as an option.

    Plugin Contributor Nick Young

    (@nickyoung87)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Sorry this thread must have been pushed down and I missed it. Apologies for that.

    So I am guessing you are up to 3.0.9 and the problem is still the same. The issue still looks to be that not all of the scripts are being loaded in. There has to be something causing this. Do you have a live link to the test site with the default theme and no other plugins installed?

    The mouseover for the responsive grid view by design right now only works on mobile. We have received a lot of feedback about that though and are looking into adding that feature in.

    Thread Starter gkbenji

    (@gkbenji)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    I was working on the site, but I was able today to switch to the latest Twenty Fifteen theme and turn off all plugins but Simple Calendar:
    http://testsite.rivendell-school.org. I can leave it that way for a few days.

    Interestingly, with my own theme (a child theme of Genesis), I do see event text for some months. But with Twenty Fifteen, none of the months have event text, just dots, nothing clickable. I do have “Calendars > Settings > Advanced > Always Enqueue.. Yes” checked.

    And I think I need to clarify my statement from above… I would like the hover/click to show events to work on ALL platforms, not just mobile. I want a small, numbers-only display calendar on the desktop too. Requiring event text to display in the calendar makes it worthless for a sidebar widget IMO.

    Plugin Contributor Nick Young

    (@nickyoung87)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Ok I just looked at your site. Very weird. Even on the default theme it is not loading the script correctly for some reason. Do you get any error messages in your site logs about loading the script or anything like that? I will take a look at the code to see if anything stands out that might help, but this is a really baffling issue.

    Thread Starter gkbenji

    (@gkbenji)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Nope, haven’t seen any error messages about that in any log files.

    Is it possible you might get more clues if I put my theme backup? In that situation, some months show events, but a few don’t. That difference might offer a hint as to what’s going on.

    Plugin Contributor Nick Young

    (@nickyoung87)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Yeah you can put your theme back if you would like since there seems to be a bigger issue going on here.

    Plugin Contributor Nick Young

    (@nickyoung87)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    You don’t happen to have the disable scripts and styles options checked by accident do you?

    Thread Starter gkbenji

    (@gkbenji)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    I did have disable styles checked, not disable scripts.

    When I unchecked “disable styles”, I did get back the “clickable” pop-up functionality (on both desktop and mobile–Chrome on Android). But the body of the grid cell is still just dots on days with events, no text.

    Plugin Contributor Nick Young

    (@nickyoung87)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    That’s the way it looks if the container is less than a certain size. It is to help with making the calendar more responsive.

    If you wanted to change that you would have to edit the actual plugin files.

    Thread Starter gkbenji

    (@gkbenji)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    So, apparently it seems to be working as designed now.

    Unfortunately, that design is so different from the original plugin that it’s no longer useful to us. The widget IMO no longer works well in a small sidebar like we were using it.

    Thanks for all your work, though.

    Plugin Contributor Nick Young

    (@nickyoung87)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Sorry that you dislike it. We thought having the plugin be more responsive would overall be a positive for it, but we are still learning a lot based on all of the feedback received.

    Thanks for your feedback and for using the plugin, we do appreciate it!

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