How to display only one of duplicated events (duplicate-tec-event plugin) ?

[Frank]

Hi,

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Recurring Events and Event Tickets Plus – I'm Confused

I also need to duplicate events, since Tickets Plus doesn’t allow one ticket for an event of a recurring events serie (it’s actually one ticket for a serie of recurring event).

The duplicate-tec-event plugin works well, but the problem is that all the duplicated events display in calendar views.

How could I only display the first event (upcoming) of duplicated events ?

Best,
Frank

[Brook]

Howdy Frank,

I would love to help you with this as much as I can. I’m afraid I don’t have good news those, if you are not extremely knowledgeable on WP queries this is basically impossible. In order to do what you want you will in many ways be building the ability for recurring events to have a separate ticket per recurrence. That is a feature we have been working on for months, it is no small feat to build.

If you have the requisite knowledge you would basically want to to connect all of the events somehow, perhaps with a custom field where each event in the series shared a value. Then you would modify the WP Queries that power our views via the usual pre_get_posts and probably also the WP_Query  where filters — no small feat at all. That will take a huge amount of trial and error to build this out and account for all the quirks associated with complex event queries. But eventually you could hide all but the first occurrence of the series.

I wish I had better news on that front. The one bit of good news I do have is that we are working to make it so that recurring events can naturally support a new set of tickets for each recurrence, so in the future it sounds like what you’re trying to accomplish will just be a baked in feature. 🙂 All you will have to do is update. We do not yet have an ETA on this.

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

– Brook

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