Editing expired events

[pylon]

I just discovered that a client, rather than copying/pasting content from one old event to another new one, is using old, past events and simply changing the date/time details to save her time.

I’ve told her to not assume you can do this and to create new events and leave the old ones as they are. What is your official recommendation here on best practice for creating events that use content from previous events? I’m not talking about recurring events – I know all about those.

[Jennifer]

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out!

Unless there are tickets on the event, it shouldn’t be a problem to just change the details on the old events. In fact, keeping the number of events down in the database is always good for keeping query times low!

There are a couple of things I would point out..If she is not changing the permalinks each time she enters the new details, then this could of course affect any analytics you may be doing on individual events, as many different events would effectively be the same page.

If she is changing them, then this could result in 404 errors if users try to click a link for an event that has passed and been changed – instead of getting an “expired” event, they would be going to a link that no longer exists.

Otherwise, I am not aware of any problems that doing it this way would cause. I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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