Did you get a fatal error when upgrading Display Eventbrite to version 4? Since version 4 the plugin uses a background process library called ActionScheduler, developed and used by WooCommerce and used in may plugins that need reliable processing.
However a small number of website, when Action Scheduler is set up experience a critical error. This can be caused by many factors in your website setup.
You would likely have got a critical error message similar to
Error message: Uncaught RuntimeException: Error saving action: Error saving action: Table 'your_db.wp_actionscheduler_actions' doesn't exist in
This article will guide you through the steps that will resolve the issue in most cases.
The basic steps are
- Deactivate the Display Eventbrite plugin
- Install the ActionScheduler plugin
- Create the ActionScheduler tables
- Reactivate the Display Eventbrite plugin
Deactivate the Display Eventbrite plugin
As you have a critical error you may need to manually deactivate the plugin. All you need to do is to get into your control panel file manager or via ftp – and rename the plugin folder.
The plugin folder is in wp-content/plugins and called either widget-for-eventbrite-api or widget-for-eventbrite-api-premium.
Changing the name to something like wfea-deactive will deactivate the plugin.
Your site should now be operational.
Install the Action Scheduler plugin
Visit WooCommerce’ formal site for ActionScheduler here https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler/releases/latest
Download the action-scheduler.zip and install and activate it as you would with any plugin.
Create the Action Scheduler tables
This should happen automatically.
Navigate to Dashboard>Tools>Scheduled Actions and you should see something like
![](https://fullworksplugins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-10-07_17-07-1024x366.png)
Reactivate the Display Eventbrite plugin
Go back to your file manager, rename the wp-contents/plugins/wfea-deactivated to widget-for-eventbrite-api or widget-for-eventbrite-api-premium.
Login in and from plugins, activate Display Eventbriite Events plugin.
If it is all good, then Action Scheduler will continue working. You can even deactivate the Action Scheduler plugin.
![](https://fullworksplugins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-10-07_17-13-1024x352.png)
And pop over to Dashboard>Tools>Scheduled Actions to check you background calls are being processed.
Of course, if you still have issues, reach out to Fullwork’s support.