75+ events per day: too many?

Hi there Will,

Thanks for reaching out and for your interest in our products 🙂
We do have various clients that hold lots of events per day (a volume similar to what you are describing), and the calendar is working fine for them. As you surely know scaling a website has many aspects such as having the right infrastructure, setting up cache and optimizing resources.

Please give these articles a read: Performance considerations and Caching: What, when and how, to get a sense of what we suggest on performance.

The only way of knowing how this will work for you is to set-up a test site with The Events Calendar and create as many events as you’ll have in the live site. Once that’s done, run some tests and see if you are happy with the result! Please note that we have a 30 day refund policy, so you can buy any premium plugin to test this and if it doesn’t work as expected as for a full refund within 30 days of purchase.

Please let me know if this answers your question,
Best,
Nico

Hey Will,

Thanks for following up!

1. What happens to event posts after the day has come and gone? Are they cleared out so they don’t take up room in the database? If not, is that something you’d advise in our case? (I’m picturing a post-expiration plugin or something to that effect.) Of course we’d want to still retain saved info about venues/organizers.

Expired events are not cleared out from the database, they just sit there as past events archive. Basically all info is retained. Depending on how your database grows/performs it might be healthy to run a back-up & clean-up routine every 3 months or something like that. Indeed there are a bunch of plugins to optimize your database and also a couple to delete old posts by date.

2. Would there be any benefit to setting up a separate WordPress install for the calendar specifically vs. adding it to the main site in the usual plugin way?

Not sure what’s the content of the rest of the site. Upfront I cannot see any benefits of splitting that up other than isolation/organization of the site. But that decision is more related on how the site will work, for example if users need to login to the site or if there’s linked content that share taxonomies, authors, etc.

You might be interested in consulting some of these folks that worked in the past with The Events Calendar customizations. One of them specializes in scaling & performance for big sites.

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with,
Best,
Nico

Hey Will,

Thanks for confirming we are in a good spot here 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close out this thread, but if you need help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create a new one and we will be happy to assist you.

Best,
Nico