Export or archive old events to increase calendar speed?

[Agnes]

Hello!

I’ve been having lots of problems with the calendar’s speed. Our site’s primary purpose is the calendar, we have LOTS of events. I’ve asked about this before, and have upgraded to a dedicated server with server side caching as suggested, but it’s still very slow. If I delete old events, from months previous, will this help? And is there a way to export or archive the events so the data is all there and still searchable (we use the description info for future events), in say a .CSV file? Any advice would be helpful!

Thanks!

–> http://www.bytownsound.ca/events/month/

[Hunter]

Hi and welcome!

How many events does your site currently have? Are you using recurring events? If so, you can set how many months you’d like your recurring events to remain your site under Events > Settings > General. (see screenshot below)

We don’t currently have any logged bugs relating to users reporting poor load times, though it is a topic discussed often both in the forums and on our support/dev teams. I’ll provide all the information I have regarding performance below. I highly recommend using WP Rocket to help cache your content.

• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/caching-basics/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/caching-month-view-transients/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/caching-basics/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/the-events-calendar-performance-considerations/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/favorite-developer-plugins/

Deleting old events might have an impact on your load times, but make sure you set up redirects for those deleted events. There isn’t a way to export event data and it remain searchable on your site as far as I know, but you might want to research the forums and visit our UserVoice Feature Ideas to suggest it as a request.

I hope this helps and best of luck with the performance issues. Cheers!

[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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