Copying Events

[Alan Mason]

I am thinking about using event calendar to publish our forthcoming seminars. These will run monthly in various locations and differing dates. I would like to be able to create event templates and copy (clone/duplicate) these and change the dates to create subsequent events. I have looked through your forums and have found lots of people asking about being able to do this, but cannot see any categorical answer. Will I be able to copy events and change certain of the parameters to create a new (additional) event?

Alternatively, if I use the recurring events feature, can I then change the date of an event in the sequence without changing all of the events in the sequence or breaking the recurrence?

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Alan and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.

Normally, any custom post type duplicator should do the trick.
There is even one made especially for our plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-tec-event/

Alternatively, if I use the recurring events feature, can I then change the date of an event in the sequence without changing all of the events in the sequence or breaking the recurrence?

That is a great question. Full disclosure, we are currently rewriting our Event series engine to make it more flexible.

For now, if you want to change the date of an event, your best bet would probably be to add an exclusion for the date you don’t want the event to display and create a single event rule to address the change.

This way the other events are not impacted.

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[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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