Events Calendar Pro – importing data

[Mark]

I have a client currently using your Events Calendar on a very old WordPress install with a ton of out dates extensions no longer needed in today’s Visual Composer world.

I would like to do a fresh install of WP and copy/import the pages and posts to the new site.

I am thinking of purchasing your Events Calendar Pro, is there a way to export the data from current Calendar and import into the new site so they don’t have to recreate?

Can we limit or just not import past events, as they have years of old events that do not need to be imported?

Please explain our options for migrating some or all of the data?

[Courtney]

Hi Mark

The standard WordPress export would be the easiest option to export events, venues, etc. and then import it into your site. However, this will carry with it old events. The one advantage of this is to avoid any broken links.

If you still want a way to only move upcoming events, I’d suggest using a tool like https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-all-export/ to export a .csv file of your events. You can then freely upload your .csv file to the new site.

If you happen to be purchasing Event Aggregator, I’d suggest simplifying all this instead by just using the “Other URL” option. You can just put the link to the old site into Events » Import » Other URL and it will fetch all the information needed. If you only intend to migrate site data and not import events in an ongoing manner, purchasing EA might be overkill though.

Let me know if any of these options work for you.

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[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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