scottmotion

Yes, EA would show nothing but a blank calendar with TEC deactivated. However it is difficult to completely test this as I am working on a live site. I have received tentative approval to switch to TEC for both the website calendar and to bring events into our app via the API. In fact when I installed TEC I found that organization had previously used it around 2019 as there was still leftover data in the database. The organization is considering moving away from Elementor, so my hope is to use TEC on its own (without Elementor or EA) and apply a template so we’re not locked into either of those plugins.

Unless you know of any other optimization techniques related to using TEC I think we can consider this ticket closed, as raising the memory limit solved the Elementor loading issue. Thank you for taking the time to work with me on this issue. If you have any other questions for me regarding our implementation I am happy to share what I know.

Here are the steps I took this morning:

Initial config (before enabling TEC): PASS

Performed these isolated tests with The Events Calendar plugin enabled:

Disable all minification and clear cache: FAIL

define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘324M’ );
and
define( ‘WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘324M’ );: PASS (previous limit was default 256 and was not set in wp-config.php)

Disable ‘Essential Addons for Elementor’ plugin: PASS

Enable Debugging (per TEC guide) with initial config and The Events Calendar plugin enabled:

FATAL ERROR:
[10-Aug-2025 18:21:14 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16531408 bytes) in /home/username/example.com/wp-content/plugins/elementor/core/common/modules/ajax/module.php on line 270

There were other Warnings and Deprecations, mostly about loading translations too early, but these also stood out:
[10-Aug-2025 18:21:25 UTC] PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: quantifier does not follow a repeatable item at offset 2 in /home/username/example.com/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 238
[10-Aug-2025 18:21:25 UTC] PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: quantifier does not follow a repeatable item at offset 2 in /home/username/example.com/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 239

Probably unrelated, but it should be noted that without TEC enabled the Elementor editor (for the calendar page) takes up to one minute to load, with admin-ajax.php taking 48 sec on one of the several calls. With TEC enabled and memory limit increased the editor loads in about 40 seconds, with admin-ajax taking around 16sec on the longest call.

So raising the memory limit seems to work. We are on DreamHost shared.

I sent the info you requested.

Issue was site-wide. Every page I visited returned 500, except when I was already logged in.

I have just shy of 10K registered users

Hey Aurovrata I don’t have this metabox. In fact I was just watching one of your videos and I don’t have any of the metaboxes you have, only ‘Status’, and nothing else is available under screen options. Do I need the Smart Grid plugin installed or have activated the metaboxes some other way?

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Absolutely perfect! Finally got it set so only Admins can post or reply in the Announcements forum! I can’t believe this isn’t a core option. Thanks so much for sorting this out!

Thank you Robin!

I made the modification and uploaded the file to /wp-content/themes/my-theme-name/download-monitor/add-to-cart.php however the class is still being applied. Do I need to replicate the folder structure as well?