Warning! Events-only platform — Dashboard modules gone.

  • rainestorm

    (@rainestorm)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    After installing the All-in-One Calendar, I did a lot of work on the CSS and messed with some of the advanced settings without paying close enough attention to my Dashboard layout. I noticed that all of my Dashboard modules had vanished except those that dealt with the Calendar layout.

    After about five hours trying to locate the problem, thinking I may have to reinstall my WordPress completely and lose all of the work I had done on it, and including trying to fix the issues via the database, I backtracked to the advanced settings. If you click the checkbox for “Turn this blog into an events-only platform” it will turn off all of your modules that deal with anything but calendar events.

    This is a terrible feature. No plugin should ever restrict your back-end in this manner, especially for Administrator-level users. The alarming thing is that even removing the plugin and the themes-ai1ec through FTP will not return your missing Dashboard modules.

    Granted, I should have been paying closer attention. However, I hope this helps other users should they run into this problem and pull their hair out trying to figure out what happened.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/

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  • malkieh

    (@malkieh)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the warning rainestorm.

    I did try “Turn this blog into an events-only platform” on a test site and it did not do anything. Now I have an events site up and running I have been tempted to try it again, but I will not do that now!

    saxonycreative

    (@saxonycreative)

    13 years ago

    Agreed. What a crazy feature. I did find a fix eventually, because when I accidentally entered ‘events-only’ mode, I couldn’t even update the plugin’s own settings! There were literally no admin settings available, even if I browsed to /plugins.php or something similar. It said I did not have the right permissions. I tried manually disabling the plugin folder, trying to deactivate the plugin via the DB, no dice.

    Here is how I fixed it. I finally reactivated the plugin, noticed there was an updated plugin version available under Updates, updated the plugin, and this (and only this) restored the plugin’s settings. I took All-in-One Calendar off ‘events-only’ which thankfully restored the rest of my admin backend, and deleted this plugin as fast as I could. It wouldn’t even let me uninstall – I had to manually remove the files. Now I’m left with a bunch of useless DB tables – and this plugin does fill up your database!

    If you plan to have an events-only site, like that’s your entire purpose for having a site, then I can see how this could be useful. Otherwise, avoid like the plague!

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