CUNY Academic Commons

Page where the problem exists: https://thesegalcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/

Basic issue: Events sidebar shows extraneous content before the content is should show.

Andie Lerner writes:

"The issue began last Friday.

However, what happened is that the public view (segalcenter.org) was unreachable with an error message reading "The CUNY Academic Commons is experiencing issues" and "Under Maintenance" listed on the tab. I contacted Marilyn initially confirming whether or not this was only with my Commons site or if it was happening widespread? It was at this point that she contacted dev and gave me access, and the site began working again. From her point of view nobody had used the site since 2018, however I have been logging in to the commons through our admin account and adding events since spring. After this step, I logged in and readied the MESTC theme, since it was no longer applied to the site, and the sidebar became what it is now. ​I know that was long winded, but I wanted to give you a complete view of what happened to explain the more minute issue."

I tried a long time to fix the sidebar issue on the events page, but no luck. Attached please see current display. The content highlighted in red should not appear. The plugin "Custom Sidebars" is being used, but I can't figure out how the desired content is getting into the sidebar. I think the undesired content comes from the "Primary aside."

I went to the internet archive to see what the Events page should look like. See Attached.

I do see this notice: "Custom Sidebars Notice
Starting from version 5.7, WordPress will be using Gutenberg's block-based Widget Screen. Custom Sidebars is not compatible due to the fact that once Full Site Editing is in place, such plugins will not be required anymore. Therefore Custom Sidebars has been discontinued. If you have existing sidebars that you need to modify, you can switch back to a legacy Widgets screen by adding remove_theme_support( 'widgets-block-editor' ); in your theme's functions.php file. You can read more about this here. "

But it seems it should still work with the theme.