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  1. anastubbs
    Member

    I'm not sure what I've done wrong here - both the widget and shortcode for "Upcoming Events" have stopped displaying anything except "No upcoming events". I've double checked that both the calendar and the (recurring) events are public, and I've checked the iCalendar URL is correct.

    They both worked when I set them up originally, albeit with incorrect time zones, and I haven't touched them since, so I'm not sure there's much more detail I can give.

    On http://notslangcath.wordpress.com/schedule/ you can see the Google styled embedded one works fine, but above it is an Upcoming Events shortcode drawing from the same calendar. It used to display a table of events, but now it just says "No upcoming events". The same text is shown in the widget at the side.

    The calendar itself can be viewed at https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=0bf7degac4km43sb0g4ha63uuo%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

    Any advice welcomed.

    The blog I need help with is notslangcath.wordpress.com.

  2. anastubbs
    Member

    I'm still having this issue, and feeling like an utter idiot, as I'm clearly the only one who's managed to muck up this badly.

    I've tried with the private ical url, which doesn't work either.

    Yet they both return perfectly fine ical files with all event info in, when I navigate manually to the url.

    Does nobody have a suggestion for whatvstupid mistake I'm making that's caused it to stop working?

  3. anastubbs
    Member

    I can't seem to edit my previous post, so I'd like to add that I just created a new calendar, imported some events, followed the same steps, and now that one works.

    What worries me is that the original calendar was a replacement for a colleague's whose calendar suddenly started only displaying "No upcoming events". I assumed he'd set it to private by mistake, but now I'm wondering...

    ...it's almost like it stops importing the events? How do I kickstart it into behaving if this is what is happening?

  4. anastubbs
    Member

    Just to add, none of these calendars ever have any new events. They're just the same ol' events, recurring day after day, week after week. Could that cause problems?

  5. anastubbs
    Member

    Oh dear. When I went to sleep, the new one was working.

    Now that I've woken up again, it isn't?

    I really am not sure what I'm doing wrong :/

  6. anastubbs
    Member

    I've been busy with other stuff so haven't touched it this week.

    The new calendar is now as borked as the old one though...

    I feel like a right plonker...

  7. anastubbs
    Member

    Alright, time to get methodical.

    This is my current repo.

    1) Create public Google calendar
    2) Add some public events, recurring weekly.
    3)Following the steps in http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/upcoming-events/, add an Upcoming Events widget to your sidebar and populate it with the .ics link.
    4)Leave to sit for a week.

    Expected behaviour:
    Upcoming events should show up as time elapses, and old ones disappear.

    Observed behaviour:
    The widget is initially populated with upcoming events correctly, and disappear after their scheduled time. However, they are not replaced with the subsequent recurrences. Instead, "No upcoming events" is displayed. Querying the Google calendar separately still shows the events correctly.

  8. richardmtl
    Staff

    Thank you Ana for the detailed steps. I've asked a developer to look at this and I'll get back to you as soon as I have something. Thank you for your patience.

  9. brommavikings
    Member

    I seem to have the same issues as Ana, i've tested both embeded in blog and with the widget Upcoming events as well as a text Widget. The embeded and text widget work but not Upcoming events and they use the same calender source.

  10. anastubbs
    Member

    Hurrah! Finally, someone else with this problem - glad to see I'm not going mad(der).

  11. richardmtl
    Staff

    Hi,

    It turns out that our widget does not properly display recurring events. I have filed a bug report, but I do not have a timeline for when it will be fixed, sorry. If you want your recurring events to display, you'll need to enter them as single events in your calendar for now.

  12. anastubbs
    Member

    I'm surprised that this wasn't picked up before now, but thank you for the update :)

  13. thetask041
    Member

    I have been having the same problem, thanks for looking into this

  14. sunnybrookgi
    Member

    I think I have a similar problem. When I enter an event into google that is 'all day', it shows up in the list of 'upcoming events' with the wrong date (1 day early)

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