How Can I Delete Old Events in a block?

[Nigel]

Hi

My Mini Calendar widget is causing the page it is on to run so slowly.

I would like to remove all old events to see if that helps with the perfoamance but I cant see an easy way to do this?

Ive changed the ‘Clean Up Recurring Events’ setting from 6 months to 1 month but it doesnt seem to do anything as I still have events from January showing in the events listing.

Can you please help/advise?

Many thanks
Nigel

[George]

Hey Nigel,

Sorry you’re having some trouble here! If I understand your questions correctly, then it seems like the most straightforward way for you delete many old events in bulk is to head to the “Events” page in your wp-admin.

Once here, notice a tab in the top-right of the screen called “Screen Options”. If you click it, an option for how many events to display on the admin page will show. Bump that number up as high as you can, which depending on your site and server should be up to 100 or 150 events per-page (beyond that, and it will just load too slowly or could possibly even fail to load depending on your server).

So then you can just sort events by start date or something, and then “bulk select” a bunch of them and then just “Move to trash”.

This should be quite a time-saver. I hope it helps!

Cheers,
George

[Nigel]

Hi George

Thanks for getting back to me, unfortunately this approach will also delete all future recurring events and not just the selected historical ones.

Any other thoughts?

Kind regards
Nigel

[George]

There is unfortunately no alternative at this time – sorry to bear the bad news. You could go to each event and “Split” it from the recurrence series, but this is of course not a “bulk” action and quite a slow one.

I’m really sorry Nigel! Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help with.

Cheers,
George

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