Event Aggregator – how are duplicate events from different sources handled?

[Dave]

For the Event Aggregator, I was wondering how the same event coming from different import sources (say, Facebook Events and Meetup.com) are handled. Are both published, or can it detect duplicates? If so, how does it do that – by title, time and date, a combination?

[Caroline]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for taking the time to reach out! Great question–while Event Aggregator will not duplicate the same event imported from the same source, it’s currently not able to identify matching events from different sources. If you want to ensure that duplicate events are not published immediately to your calendar with each import task, you can adjust your plugin settings to have newly-imported events set to draft status. Duplicate events can then be excluded manually, and any remaining events can be published all at once. 🙂

I hope that helps! Thanks again, and let us know if you should have any other questions!

[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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