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We have a site with events currently written as posts (written before premium events plugins existed!). We would like to convert the old events to be used The Events Calendar. I see there are various plugins in general for converting posts to custom post types. Can we get support (after buying the product, but we are not ready yet) on converting these old events to be used by The Events Calendar? Is there information anywhere on how each of the fields will need to be set up?
Howdy Leora,
I have never tried converting those directly. However our plugin does offer some pretty general import tools. The most generally useful one, which is included in the free plugin, is the CSV importer. If you can export your current data as a CSV then you can import it with ease. Typically it is quite possible to export a post and its meta data as a CSV, if you have never done this before I would just research it a bit to find a method applicable to how you’ve set things up.
If you prefer to try converting your Post data to a Custom Post Type you can certainly give it a whirl. We have documented all of our post meta fields here. You can use those keys to figure out where to put things.
Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.
Cheers!
– Brook
Thank you, Brook! For now, that is what I need to know. Yes, I have worked with CSV files in the past.
I will speak with my client and find out if it is worth their while to do the conversion (or maybe they will just add current events to the new plugin).
In general, it is nice to get a response – I will ask more as we get more into using the product.
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