Cannot setup a repeating event with version 7.2.1

Resolved ebsgrado
(@ebsgrado)

8 months, 1 week ago

After updating to Events Manager 7.2.1, it is no longer possible to create recurring events. I do not get any fields to enter the required information. There seems to be an error loading the backend editor. I can briefly see a red error box flash in the right sidebar, but it disappears too quickly to read.

I have activated the debug.log of wordPress and reloaded the editor for creating a new repeating event. Here is the output:

[29-Sep-2025 10:45:49 UTC] PHP Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the em-pro domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in …/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121

[29-Sep-2025 10:45:50 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Attempt to assign property “allow_timeslots” on false in …/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/templates/forms/event/when/times.php:11

Stack trace: 0 …/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/templates/forms/event/when.php(50): include() 1 …/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/events-manager.php(458): include(‘…’) 2 …/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/classes/em-event-post-admin.php(361): em_locate_template() 3 …/wp-admin/includes/template.php(1456): EM_Event_Post_Admin::meta_box_date() 4 …/wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php(714): do_meta_boxes() 5 …/wp-admin/post-new.php(75): require(‘…’) 6 {main}

thrown in …/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/templates/forms/event/when/times.php on line 11

[29-Sep-2025 10:45:51 UTC] PHP Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the em-pro domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in …/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121

This also happens with the time-slots-feature turned off in the settings.

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addicottweb
(@addicottweb)

8 months, 1 week ago

As someone who pointed out a problem with core functionality as a result of the 7.2 update, which necessitated the rollout of 7.2.1 (see this thread), I want to quote one of the other comments on that thread that relates to this, because I think it nails the situation.

“May I suggest that rather than futzing around manually creating test events and saying “Eh, good enough,” you start to act like software development professionals and create a set of test cases, including regression tests, and maybe some test automation? So that you can roll out new features without embarrassing failures of core functionality?”

This is very frustrating, to say the least, that regular updates to this plugin cause issues to core functionality like this. I’m tagging @msykes here, hopefully this will be fixed ASAP.

Plugin Author Marcus
(@msykes)

8 months ago

Hello, sorry, this is a bug.

We’ve just updated the dev version 7.2.1.1 which fixes this. It will be followed up with a stable update tomorrow. To update to dev version it’s just a few extra clicks.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience!

@addicottweb (being brief here, can elaborate after the update if you want) agreed, but it’s a lot more complex than it sounds given the massive amount of variables in the settings. Time-wise it’s unrealistic we could do this and have caught many of these bugs that occurred. In this case of recent updates, the changes were really profound, any test cases we could create would probably have failed due to the massive changes in UI etc. As we stabalize these recent updates, there shouldn’t be much more in terms of massive overwrites at a core level so hopefully we’ll avoid these situations going forward.

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