Event deleted in source calendar is not deleted in wordpress upon sync

[Guido Falk]

I have a remote iCal source where events may eventually be deleted. These changes should be reflected during the import. However, entries remain visible even though the source entry has been deleted. The entry itself is unchanged in the meantime. I saw this thread on this site https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/deleted-events-from-source-calendar-still-shows-on-wp-site/ but it comes with no working fix.

Any hints how to resolve this issue?

[Brook]

Howdy Guido,

I would love to help you with this.

I am not sure if Nico understood the client in the other topic, because iCal is an event creation format, not a syncing one. It contains no info about deleted events. So when you delete an event from the source, you can not expect it to get deleted anywhere else. This is the nature of iCal.

The only available solution is to delete the event from the other areas the same time you delete an event from the source.

There is however one feature request we have that you might be interested: Option to remove events not present in a reimported <mark>iCal</mark> feed. The devil is in the details there. In order for the above feature request to help you your source, wherever your iCal file is exporting from, will have to export the entire feed. Typically sources will export all upcoming events, or will only export up to a certain number of events such as 1000. This means that any event over the 1000 mark would get deleted. Further a lot of servers are not powerful enough to import large feeds all at once, so you might even need a faster/more expensive server. I would love to see us implement that feature and some point in the future, but for now it is getting less than 1 vote per month which is far too low to ever get implemented.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers!

– Brook

[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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