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Idelle Datlof
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March 10, 2013 at 2:09 pm
We are having a devil of a time with the calendar. See:
http://www.lisw.net/?page_id=110
The short code insists on displaying literally, as if the plugin was not installed. But it is.
We do find at the espression site: installing the plugin, go to Event Manager > Calendar Settings.
That advice is — let me say this without the irritation I feeel — unhelpful. In the wordpress admin pane, “Event Manager” is not present.
There is only one additional plug-in activated fckeditor. Deactivating that did not change the miserable situation.
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Dean
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March 11, 2013 at 1:18 am
Hi Idelle,
Firstly, apologies and thank you for pointing out the error in the documentation, it should say Espresso, and not Manager, that has been fixed now.
It looks like the theme itself is modifying the output of the scripts and wrapping them in <p> (paragraph) tags, which breaks the scripts, and thus the calendar.
You have tested the [raw] tags already, but they don’t work, which really leaves you with 3 options:
1) contact the theme developer and ask them to add support for raw tags or stop scripts from being wrapped in <p> tags 2) find the code in the theme that is causing this issue (normally in the functions.php and looks similar to this) and comment it out or remove it 3) use a different theme.
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Idelle Datlof
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March 11, 2013 at 1:56 pm
Hello Dean,
Thanks for your reply. But it has not helped us go forward with the calendar. Here are relevant facts:
1. We have a personal license, which to all appearances includes the calendar functionality. Moreover, we received a calendar zip file, which has been duly unzipped in the WordPress plugins directory.
2.The calendar fails to appear, REGARDLESS of the theme we choose to activate. We have experimented with the two current, standard WordPress themes: Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve. The calendar failed also with standard WordPress default and “classic” themes.
3. When we go to the admin panel: Event Espresso–>General Settings, there is no Calendar section.
4. In the plugins section of the admin panel, we have activated the two available Espresso entries: Event Espresso and Event Espresso-Social Media.
We have now spent hours on this thing. Hope you can help.
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Josh
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March 11, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Hi there,
From reading over your reply, specifically items #2 and #4, it doesn’t at all sound like the calendar plugin was successfully activated.
I would suggest downloading a fresh copy of the events calendar plugin from your account page and go to the WordPress plugin manager screen and try uploading and installing again.
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Idelle Datlof
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March 11, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Thank you for the advice, Josh.
All to no avail so far. I do not upload plugins via the WP plugin manager. What I do — and I’ve just done this a few minutes ago for the file: expresso-calendar.zip — is upload the zip file to the plugins subdirectory of the website in question. Then I unzip the file. Indeed the directory espresso-calender is created, as a subdirectory of the plugins directory, alongside the event-espresso and espresso-social directories, which appear to be functioning normally.
Having re-installed the calender functionality in this way, nothing, unfortunately, has changed for the better. See: http://www.lisw.net/?page_id=260 (note that I am using a very standard WordPress theme here: twenty eleven) — still no calendar, only the short code, displays.
In the plugins section of admin, there is no separate plugin listed that is called “calendar.” Is that the problem? I assure you, the directory under plugins, “espresso-calendar”, is firmly in place.
I note that you have not commented on my point #3 above. so I take it that there is no “Calendar Section” in General Settings under Event Espresso in the WordPress admin panel.
I’m willing to share admin log in info with you if you want to poke around yourself.
Lucky us! We get to solve this enigma.
Thanks,
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Josh
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March 11, 2013 at 8:17 pm
Hi there,
That’s correct, there isn’t a calendar section in Event Espresso>General Settings. When the calendar plugin is activated, it will have its own menu item under Event Espresso.
The may be a problem with unzipping the calendar zip file on the server. Since you’re logged in over FTP, you could take a look inside the espresso-calendar folder and make sure there the files are there. Normally when I’m installing a plugin via FTP, i’ll unzip it before uploading, then upload the plugin folder to wp-content/plugins.
Please see this guide for step by step instructions:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation
The calendar is a separate plugin, and the calendar shortcode will not display a calendar unless the calendar plugin is active.
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Idelle Datlof
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March 11, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Hello Josh,
You write “When the calendar plugin is activated, it will have its own menu item under Event Espresso.” I do not find any calendar menu item in the location you specify. Hence I agree with you that the plugin is not installed. Buy why not? These are the files — to which I’ve given unix permissions 777, to make sure they are all accessible — in the directory “espresso-calendar” that is a subdirectory of the plugin directory:
calendar_admin.php espresso-calendar-widget.php
calendar_admin_classic.php espresso-calendar.php
calendar_help.php readme.txt
changelog.txt scripts (directory)
css (directory)
css directory contains: calendar.css images (directory, which contains the file tick-circle-frame.png) jquery.qtip.css
scripts directory contains: fullcalendar.min.js jquery.qtip.js
Isn’t all of this boringly normal?
I’m sorry it’s taking so long to figure this out. And surprised others haven’t encountered this same problem.
Thanks for your ongoing assistance.
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Idelle Datlof
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March 12, 2013 at 6:07 am
PROBLEM RESOLVED!
Josh and others,
The Calendar module now works. I can think of only one change that I’ve made: I deleted a __MACOSX directory that was under the plugins directory.
After I did that (if I understand the sequence of events correctly), the “Event Espresso – Calendar” plugin showed up in my admin list of plugins and I was able to activate it.
Now, this __MACOSX directory resulted, I believe, from unzipping an Espresso zip file. The __MACOSX directory was dated July 17, 2012, and contained one entry: espresso-social. I believe that the __MACOSX directory is produced when a zip file is created by a MAC zipfile creator — i.e. the creator of the plugin in question.
Note that I do all of my plugin unzipping as follows, using FTP:
1. download the plugin zip file to my desktop PC
2. upload the zip file to the host unix server — plugins directory
3. unzip the zip file that is now located in the plugins directory
This is standard procedure. If I had unzipped the file on my PC and then uploaded the individual plugin directories and files to the unix server, maybe there would have been no __MACOSX directory. That would make the installation of the plugin more cumbersome, however, and I’ve never seen that doing it this way is required.
Might the __MACOSX directory have been the problem? Can you help clarify any of this?
Thanks.
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Dean
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March 14, 2013 at 5:16 am
I checked my live test server and it has a _macosx folder with a whole bunch of plugin folders in and plugins work fine on that server so I would say unless it is your server not liking that directory for some reason, then it is a different issue. Im running a Linux server.
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