"Upcoming" widgets don't show todays events

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  • 06/08/2017 at 1:31 am #425396
    plzit
    Guest

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

    06/08/2017 at 9:51 am #425441
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ 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.

    06/08/2017 at 11:46 am #425448
    plzit
    Guest

    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?

    06/08/2017 at 12:27 pm #425454
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ 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.

    06/08/2017 at 12:31 pm #425455
    plzit
    Guest

    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.

    06/08/2017 at 12:46 pm #425456
    plzit
    Guest

    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%”

    06/08/2017 at 10:16 pm #425472
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ 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?

    06/08/2017 at 10:24 pm #425473
    plzit
    Guest

    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!

    06/10/2017 at 10:41 am #425562
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ 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!

    06/12/2017 at 2:00 pm #425689
    plzit
    Guest

    Works perfectly, thanks!

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