Converting events

[Agnes Riley]

HI there,

My client will purchase the pro plan possibly today. His name is Alec Diacou, just for reference.

We’ve been using a child theme as part of the WP Mission theme, where we have events going back years.

I found a way to change the post type, so now they are “tribe-events”. Then none of them showed up. Then I did a couple of things that didn’t fix the issue (in a SQL editor). Then I realized all your events have a lot of entries (22) in wp-postmeta, while my old events have 7, I think. So I’d need to create a lot of records. Now, I could possibly do this, but maybe you have a better way. I can restore the site so all the old events go back to where they were, install your plug-in again and then do something else.

Can you help with this?

Thank you.

Agnes

[Agnes Riley]

Sorry, I copied and pasted the ticket I wrote to pre-sales on the 25th.We actually have a license now.

[Andras]

Hello Agnes,

Thanks for going Pro and welcome to the forums!

I’m going to try to help you out with this one.

The way I understand it, you were using a different plugin to manage events before?

Unfortunately migrating events from one plugin to another is not as easy as changing the custom post slug, as you have seen. It a lot of cases migration is not possible, and you will need to re-enter the events manually as different plugins use different data structures, different ways of storing the data.

If you were using an older version of The Events Calendar, then there might be a way. In this case you will need to restore your site to a state where your events are still showing, and then do a gradual upgrade of the plugins.

I hope this clarifies a bit. Let me know how I can help you further.

Cheers,
Andras

[Agnes Riley]

Dear Andras,

I said I was using a child theme. So not a plug-in.

They are regular event posts. We are happy to pay for your services to move these events over. There are a lot of them so manually recreating them would take a long time.

Thank you.

[Andras]

Hi Agnes,

Thanks for clarifying that.

I am not familiar and don’t have access to the theme you are using. Likely your parent theme has implemented events as a custom post type. In this sense it is basically the same as if it was a plugin.

The conclusion is the same, migrating the events to TEC is not a straightforward and / or easy process.

Unfortunately our team cannot take on small scale custom work.

Nonetheless I can share with you this list of independent developers who are well known in the community and are not affiliated with us. They should be able to help you with your migration.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Cheers,
Andras

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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