I’m experiencing the exact same issue and can provide additional technical details that might help:
My Environment:
- WordPress: 6.8.1 (multisite)
- PHP: 8.1
- The Events Calendar: 6.13.1
- ~600 events needing migration
Same Symptoms:
- Migration page stuck on “Loading…” indefinitely
- Browser console shows 404 errors for missing files:
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/resources/js/custom-tables-v1/ct1-upgrade.min.js?ver=6.8.1
ct1-upgrade.min.css
Root Cause Discovered: I investigated the plugin files and found that the directory /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/resources/js/custom-tables-v1/ is completely empty on both my server AND in a fresh download of TEC 6.13.1 from ww.wp.xz.cn.
This appears to be a plugin distribution issue – the critical migration files are missing from the 6.13.1 release.
Impact: This makes migration impossible regardless of server configuration. Multiple users appear to be affected.
Can the development team verify if the ct1-upgrade files were accidentally omitted from the 6.13.1 distribution?
Hi @gregf ,
Thank you for reaching out.
The Events Calendar version 6.13.1 is quite a big leap for when the migration should have been done. That said and assuming you’re not running the Events Calendar Pro (premium/add-on) plugin, kindly try the following:
In a staging environment:
- Apply this snippet and run it once with Code Snippets plugin (be sure it does not stay activated). This resets the migration that was started or didn’t go through completely.
- Uninstall and remove The Events Calendar plugin
- Install a previous version of The Events Calendar plugin (preferably version 6.1.1). See Accessing and Installing Older Plugin Versions.
- Deactivate all other plugins leaving only The Events Calendar plugin activated
- Switch to a default WordPress theme (preferably the twenty-twenty-one theme)
- If you have server-level caching, deactivate it (at least temporarily)
- Ensure you do not have events in Trash, Ignored, or in Drafts
- Increase your WordPress memory limit. You can use this plugin to check your memory usage. If the usage percentage is over 75% when you try to run the migration preview, that’s likely an issue. Increase your memory limit and try again.
Thread Starter
GregF
(@gregf)
Hi @tristan083,
Following these steps worked. I think the key was installing the 6.1.1 version before attempting the migration. Thanks for your help.
-Greg
I’m glad to hear that worked, @gregf !
I’ll be closing this thread now, but please do not hesitate to bump a new thread on our way if you have further questions/concerns. This is for us to track down topics/issues efficiently and for us to adhere to the WordPress Forum Guidelines.
If you have some time to review, that would be amazing!
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/the-events-calendar/reviews/