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Cannot Change Event Category Colors

Posted: August 17, 2012 at 11:15 am


galbright

August 17, 2012 at 11:15 am

Can anyone help with changing the event category colors? They are currently all one color and I have 10 categories. I am using the latest versions of both EE (Version 3.1.26.P) and the Calendar (Version 2.0.3). Everytime I attempt to change a category color I receive the message “The category was not updated.” Very frustrating.


Seth Shoultes

  • Support Staff

August 17, 2012 at 11:24 am

It could be a problem with the database not getting updated when EE was updated. Can you try turning on the WP Debug setting in your wp-config.php file? Then try re-saving the category details?

  • This reply was modified 11 years, 8 months ago by  Seth Shoultes.


galbright

August 17, 2012 at 11:36 am

This is what pops-up on the home page when I turn it on.

Warning: include(/home/chsbands/public_html/wp-content/advanced-cache.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/chsbands/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 62

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/chsbands/public_html/wp-content/advanced-cache.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/chsbands/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 62

Notice: load_plugin_textdomain was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.7 with no alternative available. in /home/chsbands/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3553

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/chsbands/public_html/wp-settings.php:62) in /home/chsbands/public_html/wp-content/plugins/event-espresso/espresso.php on line 50

Notice: Undefined index: ws_plugin__qcache_menu_pages_css in /home/chsbands/public_html/wp-content/plugins/quick-cache/includes/classes/admin-css-js.inc.php on line 20

Notice: Undefined index: ws_plugin__qcache_menu_pages_js in /home/chsbands/public_html/wp-content/plugins/quick-cache/includes/classes/admin-css-js.inc.php on line 28


Josh

  • Support Staff

August 17, 2012 at 12:35 pm

What you’ll want to check with wp-debug is on is the category management screen, specifically what happens when you try to update the category details.

I saw something similar on another site, and what happened was when they updated Event Espresso, the category table that handles the category colors did not get updated. Had you updated from an older version of Event Espresso?


galbright

August 17, 2012 at 12:48 pm

Yes. I updated everything assuming that might correct the issue as was recommended by Seth. It did not change my issue, though. I really don’t know enough about debugging


Chris Reynolds

  • Support Staff

August 17, 2012 at 1:01 pm

What version of Event Espresso did you upgrade from? It’s possible the column that stores the category colors was not created when you upgraded. You might try deactivating the plugin and reactivating it and see if that works.


galbright

August 17, 2012 at 2:01 pm

I actually did try that earlier with no luck. Neither can I even add a category any longer. Am I close to having to buy a token?


Josh

  • Support Staff

August 17, 2012 at 2:48 pm

If the category_meta column is missing from wp_events_category_detail table, it can be manually added in. If you have access phpMyAdmin (or use the Adminer plugin) check the wp_events_category_detail table to see if category_meta is missing.

Here’s how to add the missing column:
Step 1: Navigate to the wp_events_category_detail table and add a new column
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Step 2: Add Name=category_meta, type=text, default=NULL, Collation=match with the existing columns, Null=check
Step 3: Hit Save
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It should look something like this after saving:
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galbright

August 17, 2012 at 3:01 pm

Thank you – that did it!!

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