Cannot unset recurring events

[Henrik]

If i at first mark an event as recurring i cant later unset it.
I set it to Recurring: None but it is still displayed as recurring on the front-end.

How to solve this? Is it a known bug?

Thank you in advance.

[Brook]

Howdy Henrik,

That is unfortunately a bug. 🙁 We definitely want to fix it, but it was discovered rather recently. In the mean time it can be worked around by clicking “break this event from series”. Then you can delete the series. The slug for your even will change though. If you want to keep the original slug you will have to remove that series permanently (empty trash), then you can edit the single event and change the slug.

Does that make sense? I apologize for the inconvenience of the bug. Hopefully the workaround will help. Does it? Please let me know if you have any further questions, or if I can help you more with this. Thanks Henrik!

– Brook

[Henrik]

How do i “break this event from series”?

Best regards

[Brook]

Good question Henrik. I was using old terminology. It is not called the “Edit Single” button, which can be found in WP Admin > Events > Edit Events. Hover over a recurring event in the list for “Edit Single” to appear, like this:

Does that make sense? Does the above tutorial now work for you once you use the Edit Single button?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Henrik]

Yes i can do that but it doesn’t break it from the rest of the series… :-/

[Brook]

Well that is no good. That is also a bug. I am seeing the same thing on my end. I am very sorry! I recommend a work around and it does not work. I will get the bug logged so we can fix it. I would not be surprised if the thing that is preventing us from converting a recurring event to a single is the very thing preventing us from breaking a single event out aof a recurring series. We just had not noted this symptom before.

I am embarassed right now Henrik. Our product is usually rather devoid of bugs, but you have found two. I appreciate you reporting them, but I wish they were not inconveniencing you right now.

I believe this only leaves us with one workaround to your original problem. You will have to copy/paste the event data into a new event. This is far from ideal, but at least it will accomplish what you have set out to do. Will that method work for you?

Please let me know if that method will work. Also, if there is anything else I can do for you I would be very happy to help.

Cheers!

– Brook

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