piwel

Thanks for the follow-up.

I’m running this on a staging environment protected by Basic Auth, Cron and wp-json were correctly set up.

Interestingly, featured images for organizers and venues work fine — the only issue is with events themselves, which again suggests this isn’t related to my environment or config.

It’s possible the same image was used multiple times, or that I cleaned events and/or images and reimported the CSV — but still, nothing that would explain why no image is imported or attached unless that new line of code is present.

Anyway, I’ve had to move on to another part of the project — and with the fix I added ($event['FeaturedImage'] = $this->get_featured_image( $event, $record );), the import now works exactly as expected on my side!

Hopefully this could have helped highlight a gap in the current importer behavior for future users.

Thanks again for your time and help!

Well, thanks for the recording – that’s exactly what I was expecting for the plugin to do… But for some reason, it doesn’t work on my version of the plugin (The Events Calendar / Version 6.15.4). I tried again today with version 6.15.5, and I’m still having the exact same problem: import works well ; media is not imported ; and not linked to the created event… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And the code seems to match this bug, since the class File_Importer_Events do not mention once any FeaturedImage as we could have expected…

In your recording, you are able to import RSVPs, while I can’t. Are you using the same plugin?… (I have not paid for Event Agregator)

These two links are functional:

• Featured images not importing – The Events Calendar forums
• Featured image doesn’t appear when importing from CSV – WordPress.org

This feature already exists in the plugin and is documented here.

• The CSV import of featured images is officially supported.
• The filter for allowing local files also exists in the code, though it’s currently undocumented.

🛠️ This is not a feature request — it’s a bug fix

Several users report that the featured image import is broken, for example:

• Featured images not importing – The Events Calendar forums
• Featured image doesn’t appear when importing from CSV – WordPress.org

This issue does not require a new feature, but rather a fix to existing functionality.

Relates to https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-doesnt-appear-when-importing-events-from-csv/

For information, the problem does not take place if I’m connected as an admin on the backend.

I just add this lines in wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/contact-form/grunion-contact-form.php on line 1508 for it to work (but it’s not clean…)

if(!is_array($extra_fields)) {
   global $wpdb, $blog_id;
   $query = "SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_${blog_id}_postmeta WHERE post_id IN ($feedback_id) AND meta_key = '_feedback_extra_fields' ORDER BY meta_id ASC";
   $result = mysql_query( $query, $wpdb->dbh );
   $row = mysql_fetch_object( $result );
   $extra_fields = unserialize($row->meta_value);
 }