Ok – widget now showing (there’s probably a delay in establishing a Google calendar and having it show up), but still get “403 forbidden” when I try to view calendar in page that contains the shortcode.
Hi there,
It sounds like you found the correct feed URL link now, but for future reference, I think the quickest way to get to the settings page for a particular calendar is to look under ‘My calendars’ on the left side of the main page in Google Calendar. Then click the downward pointing triangle next to the name of your calendar, then click ‘Calendar settings’.
I’ll try to make this more clear in my instructions, as I realise there are several different settings pages!
The 403 error is puzzling, I don’t think I’ve seen this behaviour before. If possible, could you give me a link to a page on your site where this is occurring (perhaps just a ‘test’ page), so I can investigate further?
Ross
Thanks, Ross. Unfortunately I had to disable your plugin because it was breaking our Buddypress admin bar, so I don’t have a link to share…but I think that happened only after I checked the box next to ‘enable JS in footer’ to get AJAX to work. I’ve submitted a support ticket with our site administrator, and if they provide me with usable info to fix the 403 error, I’ll share it here.
Figured out the 403 error…my WordPress page was named the same as a directory – duh! I should have figured this one out right away. So I changed the name of the page.
Now I’ve got the calendar set up and everything’s displaying properly except in grid display nothing happens when I click on the date. See my calendar page here: http://www.midchix.com/events-calendar/ and there’s an event for Feb 8. As I said, if I enable the JS in footer, it breaks our Buddypress admin bar.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I’ve spent so many hours trying to find the perfect WordPress calendar plugin it’s not even funny, and if I can’t get the grid to work, I’ll resort to the list view, because that looks great too (but my preference is the grid), and your plugin is the best I’ve come across.
Thanks for your help!
Hi again,
I think I have figured out the problem! It seems to be related to this rather obscure bug / defect in the global.js JavaScript file (part of BuddyPress).
A possible fix for this is to delete or comment out (add // at the beginning of the line) line 1253 of this file, which is located in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc.
I’ve just downloaded BuddyPress and tested it with my plugin on a fresh WordPress install. Before making the above change, I got the exact same JS error I see on your site. After making the change, I don’t get any errors, the plugin works, and nothing else seems to be broken, including the BuddyPress admin bar (even with ‘Add JS to footer’ enabled).
So, this fix appears to work just fine, but you might want to do some further testing, just to make sure nothing else is affected.
Let me know if you have any questions, or require further assistance.
Ross.
I gave this a whirl; it made the tooltip work, and I was ecstatic! But the link to view future months didn’t appear, and when I refreshed the view a few times it made the page break. The admin bar disappeared and so did everything below the top of the main section.
No need to debug further – I’m just going to stick with the list view. It will work just fine for us. You’ve been a huge help and I so wish that fix would have worked!
It’s great you were able to figure out a fix for Buddypress users so that this plugin will be usable for that group as well.
Thanks, Ross!!
The link to view future months will only appear if you are using the AJAX version of the calendar (not just plain ‘grid’). This is done with the shortcode as follows:
[google-calendar-events id="1" type="ajax" title=""]
However, I guess that is a little irrelevant if the page is breaking! What a shame that the fix didn’t work, I guess there must be a further issue somewhere.
According to the trac ticket I linked to previously, a ‘proper’ fix has been committed to BuddyPress, so hopefully things might start working in the next BuddyPress release.
Ross.
I forgot to mention an important point. When I changed the shortcode from type=”grid” to type=”ajax” so I could see the link for future months, that’s when my events calendar page broke – but only that page, not the rest of the site.
I thought this might be helpful to know for future development. And thanks for checking on the Buddypress future releases!
Ah, I see. Interesting. Thanks for letting me know.
When I get some time, I’ll have a further play around with BuddyPress etc. and see if I can work out what is going on.
Ross.
Ross…can you stand one more post from me?!? The thing is, I figured out how to make it work. It wasn’t adding the type=”ajax” in the shortcode that made it break, it was including the id “2” in the shortcode for my Google holidays feed. When I first changed it after editing the javascript, I added both the word “ajax” and the additional id at the same time, which is why I thought it was the ajax. Problem solved!!! š
And I should say, you’ve done a brilliant job helping me to figure this out. My best to you!
Linda
Great! I’m glad you got it working!
Ross.
