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OK, we’ll do that
We just tried the recommended plug-in https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-real-mime-check/, and that seems to have worked, but the data still was not able to be processed, and the plugin itself says it should be disable after WordPress 4.7.3 is available
This fix worked. Thanks!
BTW, you should have an 8 minute video on how to do the Upgrade to V2
http://www.PopupRestaurants.com
We tried to address it, after making sure it was set to All, we also increased the number of info points to display to 30, but it didn’t seem to work
Please note, the text above does not include all of the replacement fields we posted, but the Moderators should be able to read them
We have found a way that seems to work. The only side effect is that it drops everything except for the Featured image in most of the posts that have been converted from Places to Events. If anyone can figure out how to get them all back, we’ll try it.
Here is the process:
1) Download the CSV for all Places you want to convert
2) Do a Find/Replace in the CSV for the following fields: “gd_place” replace with “gd_event”
3) In the top of the CSV, replace all of the fields before the field words “,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,” etc with the following fields before the comma of the first IMAGE (make sure there is just one comma before your first encounter with the field word IMAGE) –post_id,post_title,post_author,post_content,post_category,default_category,post_tags,post_type,post_status,is_featured, event_date,post_address,post_city,post_region,post_country,post_zip,post_latitude,post_longitude,post_neighbourhood,neighbourhood_latitude,neighbourhood_longitude,geodir_timing,geodir_contact,geodir_email,geodir_website,geodir_twitter,geodir_facebook,geodir_video,geodir_special_offers,linked_cpt_ID,event_date,geodir_ticketsurl,geodir_price,
These should convert all Places to Events, and also include the event dates.
Please note, this only is relevant if your Places also had date fields to begin with because they are actually events.
On our site all of our Places have dates associated with them, because we have been using it as an event calendar. Now with the plugin we are allowing multiple dates to be set for the same event.
Our goal now is to have the Places dates converted into Event dates.
When we downloaded the Places csv, all we had to do was “find/replace” every field that said “place” with the word “event”. Then upload it back as a csv, and they all became events.
But the dates were not correct, they all said today’s date.
If we add the Event’s template filed at the top of this updated csv file, would that update the dates?
A) ORIGINAL PLACES FIELDS:
post_id,post_title,post_author,post_content,post_category,default_category,post_tags,post_type,post_status,is_featured,post_date,post_address,post_city,post_region,post_country,post_zip,post_latitude,post_longitude,post_neighbourhood,neighbourhood_latitude,neighbourhood_longitude,geodir_timing,geodir_contact,geodir_email,geodir_website,geodir_twitter,geodir_facebook,geodir_video,geodir_special_offers,linked_cpt_ID,geodir_DATE,geodir_ticketsurl,geodir_price,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGEB) CONVERTED PLACES FIELDS (“place” replaced with “event”):
post_id,post_title,post_author,post_content,post_category,default_category,post_tags,post_type,post_status,is_featured, event_date,post_address,post_city,post_region,post_country,post_zip,post_latitude,post_longitude,post_neighbourhood,neighbourhood_latitude,neighbourhood_longitude,geodir_timing,geodir_contact,geodir_email,geodir_website,geodir_twitter,geodir_facebook,geodir_video,geodir_special_offers,linked_cpt_ID,geodir_DATE,geodir_ticketsurl,geodir_price,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE1) Now, these are the downloaded fields from an actual Event:
post_id,post_title,post_author,post_content,post_category,default_category,post_tags,post_type,event_date,event_enddate,starttime,endtime,is_recurring_event,event_duration_days,recurring_dates,is_whole_day_event,event_starttimes,event_endtimes,recurring_type,recurring_interval,recurring_week_days,recurring_week_nos,max_recurring_count,recurring_end_date,post_status,is_featured,post_date,post_address,post_city,post_region,post_country,post_zip,post_latitude,post_longitude,post_neighbourhood,neighbourhood_latitude,neighbourhood_longitude,geodir_timing,geodir_contact,geodir_email,geodir_website,geodir_twitter,geodir_facebook,geodir_video,geodir_special_offers,linked_cpt_ID,geodir_Tickets,geodir_price,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE
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Hi Guust
All of our Places have dates associated with them. Our goal is to have their dates converted into Event dates.
When we downloaded the Places csv, all we had to do was “find/replace” every field that said “place” with the word “event”. Then upload it back as a csv, and they all became events.
But the dates were not correct, they all said today’s date.
If we add the Event’s template filed at the top of this updated csv file, would that update the dates?
A) ORIGINAL PLACES FIELDS:
post_id,post_title,post_author,post_content,post_category,default_category,post_tags,post_type,post_status,is_featured,post_date,post_address,post_city,post_region,post_country,post_zip,post_latitude,post_longitude,post_neighbourhood,neighbourhood_latitude,neighbourhood_longitude,geodir_timing,geodir_contact,geodir_email,geodir_website,geodir_twitter,geodir_facebook,geodir_video,geodir_special_offers,linked_cpt_ID,geodir_DATE,geodir_ticketsurl,geodir_price,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGEB) CONVERTED PLACES FIELDS (“place” replaced with “event”):
post_id,post_title,post_author,post_content,post_category,default_category,post_tags,post_type,post_status,is_featured, event_date,post_address,post_city,post_region,post_country,post_zip,post_latitude,post_longitude,post_neighbourhood,neighbourhood_latitude,neighbourhood_longitude,geodir_timing,geodir_contact,geodir_email,geodir_website,geodir_twitter,geodir_facebook,geodir_video,geodir_special_offers,linked_cpt_ID,geodir_DATE,geodir_ticketsurl,geodir_price,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE1) Now, these are the downloaded fields from an actual Event:
post_id,post_title,post_author,post_content,post_category,default_category,post_tags,post_type,event_date,event_enddate,starttime,endtime,is_recurring_event,event_duration_days,recurring_dates,is_whole_day_event,event_starttimes,event_endtimes,recurring_type,recurring_interval,recurring_week_days,recurring_week_nos,max_recurring_count,recurring_end_date,post_status,is_featured,post_date,post_address,post_city,post_region,post_country,post_zip,post_latitude,post_longitude,post_neighbourhood,neighbourhood_latitude,neighbourhood_longitude,geodir_timing,geodir_contact,geodir_email,geodir_website,geodir_twitter,geodir_facebook,geodir_video,geodir_special_offers,linked_cpt_ID,geodir_Tickets,geodir_price,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE,IMAGE
We can’t do these changes event by event, we have hundreds of listings. We need to be able to download all of the places, make a change to the CSV file, then upload it so that everything uploaded is now an event.
Guust, are you saying that if we add in these columns at the top of the downloaded CSV file that contains hundreds of Places, make the post type change from Place to Event, then added these files then the correct dates will be automatically added in?
And no one wants to do hundreds of listings one by one
Thanks guys
It looks like the best way it is to reupload the exported listings (Places) as events (replace ‘place’ in the csv with “event’), which will convert all Places to Events. The issue as described is the Date field. The best technique to update the Place date field to the Event date field is what is in question, because if done incorrectly all of the converted Places/Events become literally TODAY, versus their original dates.
We exported a few places, then changed any field with “place” to “event” on the csv file, and reuploaded it. We selected the option, “Ignore listing if post with post_id already exists.”. Response was
“Total 10 item(s) found.
10 / 10 item(s) ignored due to already exists.”We tried it again selecting this option, “Update listing if post with post_id already exists.”
Response was
“Total 10 item(s) found.
10 / 10 item(s) updated.”We then checked to see if that Place had been changed to an Event. They had changed to events, unfortunately all of them had been changed to today’s date (May 12) instead of the regular date.
We then changed the field post_date to event_date to see what would happen. Nothing changed so we reimported the original data and changed them back to Places with their original listing dates. Since we have about 200 listings to do at once, we can easily change the post type field from places to events, but not so easily (at least yet) add the correct events dates and time,
Now, if we could just convert all of our PLACES on the site into EVENTS, we would be thrilled!
We finally were able to create an events home page and an Add Your event Listing page, using the shortcodes above to discover the URLS for those two page types, and adding them to our menu:
- http://www.popuprestaurants.com/events/
- http://www.popuprestaurants.com/list-your-popup/?listing_type=gd_event
It took THREE hours of research to figure out how to do these simple but critical actions after having purchased and installed the EVENTS MANAGER plugin. The cost of setup time was much more than the cost of the plugin. No explanation or detail was in any documentation that the user would not have a new EVENTS page or ADD EVENT LISTING option in the Main Navigatino or in the GEODIRECTORY PAGES tab, as one would expect. The plugin now works as it should, but this really is something you need to address going forward.
