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Colors vanish after Events Calendar update or merge

Category colors vanish or the site crashes after The Events Calendar updates, merges, or the old color plugin is disabled.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

6 public reports · first reported 15 January 2025 · last reported 30 October 2025

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners who used the Category Colors add-on for The Events Calendar report that their category colors stop showing after an update, after the features were merged into the core plugin, or after deactivating the old add-on.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

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  • The full summary.
  • The products the 6 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.