How I Discovered a Bug in The Events Calendar WordPress Plugin
The Events Calendar is an event management plugin active on over 800,000 WordPress websites. It’s a great plugin that I used on multiple projects and will continue to use in the future. This is how I discovered a bug that likely impacts only a few users in specific circumstances.
Short version: As of this video and post, a filter used by The Events Calendar strips URL parameters before the URL is passed to the native WordPress url_to_postid() function when using WP-CLI.
A few takeaways:
- Always backup your website before running any code that deletes data, no matter how confident you are in your process.
- No matter how trusted a plugin may be, there can still be issues.
- Be a good citizen of the WordPress community by reporting issues to plugin developers so that everyone benefits.
As I mention in the video, I have reported this issue to the plugin developer. I’m confident that it’ll be resolved. I’ll update this post as I hear back from them.
