[plzit]

The upcoming birthdays/anniversaries widgets don’t show events happening today. Is there a way around this?

[Steven Zahm]

@ plzit

Check that the server (PHP) and database (MySQL) times are set correctly with the correct timezone. Also ensure the timezone is properly set in WP. Hope that helps, let me know.

[plzit]

Our timezone is correct. I even tried setting a fake birthday for the following day and that didn’t show either. It looks like it doesn’t show anything prior to 24 hours out. Is this by design?

[Steven Zahm]

@ plzit

On the Connections :: Dashboard admin page, does the entry show up in either the upcoming or today’s anniversaries/birthdays widgets?

Also, make sure the entry is public as well as the anniversary/birthday is set to public. When you make a change or update an entry it can take a hour or two for the cached results to expire and be refreshed. For performance reasons, the list is not updated “live” results are cached for a period of time.

[plzit]

Yes, it shows up on the admin dashboard under “today’s birthdays”. It also shows up under the “today’s birthdays” widget, but not the “upcoming birthdays” widget. The birthdays were changed yesterday and all caches have been purged.

It appears that both the upcoming birthdays and anniversaries widgets just don’t show today’s items and only show future items.

[plzit]

I forgot to mention that we’ve already checked the visibility and it’s “public”. Our workaround right now is to include both the “today’s birthdays” and “upcoming birthdays” widgets on top of each other, but we’d rather have everything under one widget.

Another feature request would be to create a variable we could use next to the person’s name in the anniversary widget showing the number of years that have passed. For example: “%first% %last% – Years: %years%”

[Steven Zahm]

@ plzit

re: Yes, it shows up on the admin dashboard under “today’s birthdays”. It also shows up under the “today’s birthdays” widget, but not the “upcoming birthdays” widget.

Ahhh, yes, sorry, I forgot… that is how it is supposed to work. The only way to make this change would be to edit the PHP of the widget. Are you up to that?

[plzit]

Yes, please send me the code modifications for both birthday and anniversary widgets and I’ll test. You helped me modify the code to get the duplicate birthday issue fixed, so I’m familiar with the process.

Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ plzit

Open this file:

../wp-content/plugins/connections-widgets/includes/class.widget-upcoming-anniversaries.php

Scroll to line 572 which should be this:

'today' => FALSE,

Change it to this:

'today' => TRUE,

Do the same for the class.widget-upcoming-birthdays.php file, same line 572.

Hope that helps!

[plzit]

Works perfectly, thanks!

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