Import

[Linda Nkosi]

Hi! I’m wondering about importing from another Calendar plugin – we are considering switching from Calendarize It to your system and I wondered if we would have to manually redo events we have already entered or if there was an easier way 🙂
Thanks!

[George]

Hey Linda!

Thanks for reaching out, and for your interest in our plugins.

You can indeed import events from one system into another, whether they are different websites or just different plugins on the same site.

One method is to use The Events Calendar’s built-in CSV importer tools. These two articles cover how to use that, check them out:
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/using-the-events-calendars-csv-importer/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/csv-files-options-and-examples/

Another method is to use WordPress’ built-in XML importing and exporting tools. You can learn how to do this here:
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/csv-files-options-and-examples/

Which method is best? Well, it’s really up to you, and you will have to tinker a bit; do some test imports; and find which method works best for you and your data.

As a general rule, the XML method works to allow for more meta information and such to imported, but customizing the import data and mapping it from one event system to another is a bit trickier here. Meanwhile, the CSV method has a few more steps to the process, but you can manually export content from one source into CSV format and choose which fields from the source get imported into which fields in the destination.

So essentially the XML method might work better for moving from one site to another site; but the CSV may work better for moving data from one plugin to another plugin on the same site…but they’re both excellent methods, you can’t go wrong! Tinker around and do some tests and let me know if you have any further questions.

I hope that makes sense and that this is information is helpful.

Happy Friday,
George

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