Sofian777

I found out a few more interesting things.

In my standard installation that I duplicate whenever I start a new site, I have typed some special characters into the front page to identify at first sight if the issue appears. Now these german characters äöüÜÖÄ appear as question marks. BUT I checked the database content, the table wp_posts, and in phpmyadmin these characters appear normal!!!

Now I got curious and types some more behind them. When reloading the page, also they appeared strange.

Next test: I created a new page in WP and typed again äöüäöü, and now completley crazy: they appear normal in the website, but in the database they are saved as something like öäöäüöä

On hosters were the issue is not appearing (I checked the same things on such) I see my german umlauts on the website and in the database everywhere correctly.

On both hosters the table collation is utf8mb4_unicode_ci, but on the hoster that makes the mistakes, the database itself is latin1_german2_ci, while on the correct one it is utf8_general_ci. Ha, and the original db on the localhost is latin1_swedish_ci. No wonder that we get into translation problems.

Are we here now, did we find the sore spot? Be right back…

Unfortunately I am not receiving notification mails anymore, hmpf. Good I passed by this post again as well. Thanks for all the help, I am sure it is possible to achieve what I want with EM, because it is so amazingly flexible. I can’t try out today, I was spending nearly 3 days with my calendar quest already, but I will jump in as soon as I can and try out all your suggestions and then come back with result and guess more questions 🙂

Very nice, thank you. So as I see, it is possible to create individual event lists that can be triple filtered, e.g. showing only events of category 1, tag 2, location 3.

This is awesome, because unfortunately I need such a triple taxonomy filtering.

I was diving into the competition and reached their limit now with the inability to filter the location.

But on the other side I was very happy with the outcome, because it got so close to my dream: http://diviplay.wptraining24.com/calendar/

So my quest will continue in reproducing my favorite output as good as I can. I guess constructing the date, thumbnail, title, time, location etc. can be done with the Formatting settings and CSS.

But I see two functionalities that I would strongly miss:

1: The option for the user to filter himself the categories, tags (and locations which crossed the limit of competition 🙂
You have a search, but it is more difficult to use than this easy filtering system with given entries. Is something like this possible to recreate also with EM? Or do you plan to include into the advanced search also tags and locations as dropdown, as the categories are already there? Then it might be able to rearrange the search with CSS to the desired result.

2: The tabbed excerpts.
I love it. It doesn’t need to be tabbed, it can also open in a modal pop-up, but it should be possible to see all the information without leaving the page. Any ideas in this direction?

I hope with the help of some programmers who have a lot more knowledge than I have I can make my big calendar dream come true.

Thanks for further hints and directions.
Sofian

Thanks Bill, what a pity. If I see correctly, Benjamin is an official employess taking care for this forum, I hope he can also reply if this is a considered option? It would enhance the functionality amazingly, is it maybe on the to-do list?

Dear all,

Today I finally found time to dive into this issue again and tried out the developer version.

I came across the mysqldump option in the settings just now that the compatibility mode told me about.

So I activated it and thought to give it a try even without the compatibility mode, since the MySQL Version on that host is 5.5 so I couldn’t imagine that this would help in my case.

And what can I say, it worked.

So I can recommend everyone who as me didn’t know about this setting yet, to change in the Duplicator settings from “Use PHP” to “Use mysqldump”. It might already fix your problem. If it doesn’t, then you can download and install the developer version as described above and then you find in “Step 1: Package Setup” in the tab “Archive” / “Database” the compatibility mode options.

Thanks Cory for this amazing plugin and your great help. Since I don’t use pro but would like to support you, do you have a donation possibility as Paypal somewhere?

Update: I found in another post list paid plugin how he has solved: he has a shortcode-generator IN the widget! Even easier to code I guess, no editor hassle. So the widget can have a button called “Generate shortcode” and it spits out the shortcode that can then be copied into any page. Fabolous… will you integrate it?

Another issue is that sometimes I need a page list. It seems to be meanwhile possible with the post_type=”page”, but then I wonder how to tell him which pages I want to list? Pages don’t make sense with categories, but only unique ID’s. Anyhow another urgently needed option would be to simply create a manual list of posts independent of categories, as “post_ids=”22,44,77” to list these three posts or pages. Wouldn’t that also be an amazing enhancement yet simple to code?

Looking forward to hear your opinion…

Thanks for your reply. I was diving into another plugin meanwhile and will check this one out soon as well. The multiple locations idea I need to drop as it seems, since no plugin I found supports it.