Modern Events Calendar: Images do not show on imported events

Currently using: Pro 6.7.5, WP 6.8.2, Modern Events Calendar 7.26.0

We are working to pull calendar events from an iCal feed online. Events are showing up correctly in MEC, but with no event image. In October 2024, the same setup was working: we were getting event images through the import process. I can’t tell what has changed.

If I create an event from scratch and set the featured image with something in our Media Library, the event displays correctly. Similarly, if I go to an imported event, open it for editing, and set the featured image, it displays that new image in the calendar.

However, newly imported events do not display an image, and do not have anything set in the featured image field. The iCal feed includes a line like this one:

IMAGE;VALUE=URI:https://25livepub.collegenet.com/i/DgBQ7H2fNNUJYQ4WI3fsDouw.jpg

It appears that this should be parsed to serve as the event image, but for some reason that is not happening. Can you provide any guidance? Again, this was working in October 2024. I have not been able to find a setting in MEC or elsewhere that addresses this issue.

Thanks!

Hey Eric,

I believe this is a bug in MEC. For now, please revert your site to a previous working version.

Regretfully, we need to report this to the authors and wait for the next update.

Thank you for understanding.