Title: Need help IDing problem with theme
Last modified: October 26, 2021
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# Need help IDing problem with theme
* Resolved [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/)
* I have been struggling with trying to get this plugin to work on a dev site I’m
working on. I’m using the recommended Client-ID OAuth credentials, and I can
see what I expect to see once I authorize the plugin. But neither the Gutenberg
block nor the shortcode displays anything.
* I tried all the usual suspects like deactivating all the other plugins, but nothing
worked.
* Finally, I tried changing the theme to Twenty Twenty-One, and the calendars appeared.
* I’m using a child theme. I tried using just the parent theme, in case I had managed
to break something while customizing the child. The plugin doesn’t work in the
parent theme, either.
* This is the parent theme: [https://wplook.com/product/themes/non-profit/benevolence-church-wordpress-theme/](https://wplook.com/product/themes/non-profit/benevolence-church-wordpress-theme/)
* **
So my question is: are there specific things to check in the parent theme
that might be interfering with the plugin?
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* Plugin Author [michielve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michielve/)
* (@michielve)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15010355)
* Hi,
* Do you have a link to the dev site? Maybe I see something that explains it.
* I have used the plugin in some different themes and never experienced this issue,
so my guess is that it’s something specific with this theme.
* BW,
Michiel
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15010377)
* Right now, the dev site is running the Twenty Twenty-One theme so that I can
continue to test the plugin (which is working just fine with that theme): [https://new.phoenixuu.org/connect/calendar/](https://new.phoenixuu.org/connect/calendar/)
* The production site where I want to use the plugin is running a child theme of
the WPLook Benevolence theme: [https://phoenixuu.org](https://phoenixuu.org) –
but the plugin isn’t installed there yet.
* When the dev site is running the child of the Benevolence theme, this is the
code that’s generated where the calendar is supposed to be:
* ``
* Plugin Author [michielve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michielve/)
* (@michielve)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15010577)
* I think the WPLook Benevolence theme is somehow interfering with the Javascript
or CSS of the calendar plugin. But how exactly I cannot tell without seeing it
in action. So if you could update the dev site to use the WPLook Benevolence
child theme, maybe I can see the cause. I don’t have time right now to install
this theme myself.
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15011654)
* I’ve changed the theme – thank you!
* [https://new.phoenixuu.org/connect/calendar/](https://new.phoenixuu.org/connect/calendar/)
* Plugin Author [michielve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michielve/)
* (@michielve)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15012768)
* I think I see what’s causing it: the benevolence theme is also using FullCalendar(
just as this plugin does) so there is a conflict.
* Maybe it will work if you remove the fullcalendar directory (it’s inside the /
inc/ directory inside the theme directory).
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15013002)
* Unfortunately, that didn’t fix it.
* The Benevolence theme has a custom post type called Events, so I’m guessing that’s
what needs FullCalendar.
* I first tried deactivating that custom post type – that didn’t help. Then I tried
renaming the /fullcalendar directory, and finally moved the directory completely
out of the theme directory. Still having a problem.
* I did notice, while looking at the demo sites for Benevolence (where PGC doesn’t
work) and Charitas (where PGC DOES work) is that both themes have the Events
custom post type, but Benevolence also has the ability to display a Google calendar
plus an events calendar showing internally-created events.
* Charitas theme:
[https://themes.wplook.com/charitas/events/](https://themes.wplook.com/charitas/events/)
[https://themes.wplook.com/charitas/past-events/](https://themes.wplook.com/charitas/past-events/)
Only past and upcoming events
* Benevolence theme:
[https://themes.wplook.com/benevolence/google-calendar/](https://themes.wplook.com/benevolence/google-calendar/)
[https://themes.wplook.com/benevolence/events-calendar/](https://themes.wplook.com/benevolence/events-calendar/)
[https://themes.wplook.com/benevolence/upcoming-events/](https://themes.wplook.com/benevolence/upcoming-events/)
[https://themes.wplook.com/benevolence/past-events/](https://themes.wplook.com/benevolence/past-events/)
* Charitas doesn’t have the /fullcalendar directory
* Plugin Author [michielve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michielve/)
* (@michielve)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15014019)
* Yes the Charitas theme doesn’t use FullCalendar I think. Unfortunately there
isn’t anything I can do at this point to make it work with the Benevolence theme.
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15016309)
* Thank you for looking into this. I will continue to try to get some useful information
from the Benevolence developers – maybe they will have a way to disable FullCalendar.
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15017072)
* And I’m back!
* Just in case someone else has a similar problem, I thought I would share what
I found. In the theme’s /inc directory, there’s a file headerdata.php that registers
JavaScript and enqueues CSS related to FullCalendar.
* I simply deleted all those references, and now I can see the Private Google Calendars
output.
* I might do some more experimentation to see if it’s the JS or the CSS that’s
causing the conflict, but for now, I’m just happy that I can get it to work.
* Plugin Author [michielve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michielve/)
* (@michielve)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15018010)
* Thank you for sharing the solution. Based on your explanation, I think the Benevolence
theme enqueues the FullCalendar scripts and styles with the same name as I do
for this plugin. So the plugin files are never loaded. In a future update I will
rename these enqueues, so maybe then it goes OK.
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15019683)
* After all this, I’m not sure that it’s a problem with your plugin, actually.
* Here is the theme code that enqueues the FullCalendar styles:
* ```
/*-----------------------------------------------------------
FullCalendar
-----------------------------------------------------------*/
wp_register_style( 'fullcalendar', get_template_directory_uri().'/inc/fullcalendar/fullcalendar.min.css' );
if ( is_page_template('template-events-calendar.php') || is_page_template('template-google-calendar.php')) {
wp_enqueue_style( 'fullcalendar' );
}
```
* Note that it’s supposed to enqueue the style only for 2 specific templates. The
same is true for the code that enqueues the JavaScript:
* ```
/*-----------------------------------------------------------
Moment, FullCalendar, Google Calendar
-----------------------------------------------------------*/
wp_register_script( 'moment', get_template_directory_uri().'/inc/fullcalendar/lib/moment.min.js', '', '', 'footer' );
wp_register_script( 'fullcalendar', get_template_directory_uri().'/inc/fullcalendar/fullcalendar.min.js', array( 'moment', 'jquery' ), '', 'footer' );
wp_register_script( 'fullcalendar-locale', get_template_directory_uri().'/inc/fullcalendar/locale-all.js', array( 'fullcalendar' ), '', 'footer' );
wp_register_script( 'gcal', get_template_directory_uri().'/inc/fullcalendar/gcal.js', array( 'fullcalendar' ), '', 'footer' );
if ( is_page_template('template-events-calendar.php') || is_page_template('template-google-calendar.php')) {
wp_enqueue_script( 'moment' );
wp_enqueue_script( 'fullcalendar' );
wp_enqueue_script( 'fullcalendar-locale' );
wp_enqueue_script( 'gcal' );
}
```
* Yet in my dev site, fullcalendar.min.js is being loaded on every page, regardless
of the template, unless I comment out or delete the code that registers and enqueues
it. This is the source from a page with the Default template:
* ```
```
* On the theme demo site, that doesn’t happen on pages that don’t use one of those
two templates.
* It’s also not happening on my production site, which is “basically” (that’s the
key, right?) the same as the dev site except for a difference in various plugins.
So now it’s time for me to figure out what’s going on with my dev site, and test
the plugin on my production site, to see if it works there.
* Wish me luck!
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15019733)
* Ah… I may have spoken too soon.
* I installed PGC on my production site. This is what I see when I view source
on any given page with the plugin activated:
* ```
```
* **It’s loading the fullcalendar.min.js from the theme in addition to loading
the JS from your plugin.**
* But without your plugin activated, there’s nothing related to FullCalendar in
the source at all.
* So perhaps I’m missing something, but it seems like your plugin is somehow causing
the JS from the theme to load unless edit the theme to make it not enqueue the
fullcalendar.min.js at all.
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15019879)
* Based on your comment about the naming conflict, I edited lines 382 – 398 in
the private-google-calendars.php file to change the script name from “fullcalendar”(
which was also used by the Benevolence theme) to “fullcalendar_pgc”. That seems
to have solved the problem, even on pages where the theme loads its scripts.
* ```
wp_enqueue_script('fullcalendar_pgc',
plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'lib/fullcalendar4/core/main.min.js', ['my_moment_timezone'], PGC_PLUGIN_VERSION, true);
wp_enqueue_script('fullcalendar_moment',
plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'lib/fullcalendar4/moment/main.min.js', ['fullcalendar_pgc'], PGC_PLUGIN_VERSION, true);
wp_enqueue_script('fullcalendar_moment_timezone',
plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'lib/fullcalendar4/moment-timezone/main.min.js', ['fullcalendar_moment'], PGC_PLUGIN_VERSION, true);
wp_enqueue_script('fullcalendar_daygrid',
plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'lib/fullcalendar4/daygrid/main.min.js', ['fullcalendar_pgc'], PGC_PLUGIN_VERSION, true);
wp_enqueue_script('fullcalendar_timegrid',
plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'lib/fullcalendar4/timegrid/main.min.js', ['fullcalendar_daygrid'], PGC_PLUGIN_VERSION, true);
wp_enqueue_script('fullcalendar_list',
plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'lib/fullcalendar4/list/main.min.js', ['fullcalendar_pgc'], PGC_PLUGIN_VERSION, true);
wp_enqueue_script('fullcalendar_locales',
plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'lib/fullcalendar4/core/locales-all.min.js',
['fullcalendar_pgc'], PGC_PLUGIN_VERSION, true);
wp_enqueue_script('pgc', plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'js/pgc.js',
['fullcalendar_pgc'], PGC_PLUGIN_VERSION, true);
```
* I haven’t started fiddling with the styles yet, so I might need to do the same
there, but thank you for the suggestion about renaming your script. Now I don’t
have to worry about the next time I update the theme, and I’ll just set the plugin
so that it doesn’t auto-update.
* Plugin Author [michielve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michielve/)
* (@michielve)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15020756)
* From your post ([https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15019733](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15019733))
I see that my guess seems to be correct: this plugin loads fullcalendar with
the “fullcalendar” name which is the same name that your theme is using to load
fullcalendar. Somehow the themes fullcalendar file takes precedence over the
plugins file. That’s why the theme fullcalendar file is loaded and not the plugin
one.
* From your last post ([https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15019879](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15019879))
it looks like renaming the fullcalendar name will solve it. If this is true,
then I will publish a new version of this plugin.
* Thread Starter [aezzell2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aezzell2020/)
* (@aezzell2020)
* [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-iding-problem-with-theme/#post-15021678)
* Yes, that does appear to be true. I ended up renaming both the enqueued style
and the enqueued script to fullcalendar_pgc, and so far, it’s working.
* If you want me to test the new plugin version before you launch it, I’d be happy
to.
* Thanks again for the help and for this great plugin. It is going to save our
organization a ton of time and reduce stress all around.
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