How clean up past events?

[Paul]

I’m not sure if I’m missing something obvious, but is there a setting to delete events once they’re past?

As our site has been going over a year now there’s quite a lot of back-fill.

What is happening is that people are searching for events, the calendar is pulling up old annual events that come up ‘With this event has passed’ and people get confused and send emails.

Thanks!

[Jennifer]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for reaching out!

We do have a setting to clean up past recurring events. Go to Events > Settings > General, and you will see a setting (“Cleanup recurring events after”) where you can specify a number of months to keep past recurring events for, after which they will be deleted.

If you would like to delete old single (non-recurring) events, I would recommend taking a look at a plugin like this which will let you delete custom post types (events are “tribe_events” custom post types). If you go this route, make sure to back up your database prior to deleting the events!

I hope that helps, but please let me know if you have any more questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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