Importing existing events into The Events Calendar

[Mark Gillespie]

We have an existing events calendar on our web site that’s managed through a Custom Post Type in WordPress. Is there a way to import those existing posts into your plug-in so that we don’t have to re-enter 200-some different events?

[Brook]

Howdy Mark,

It would be my pleasure to assist with this.

There are a number of ways to do this. The two most common would be:

1. CSV — since CSV is such a flexible format this is a very common way to import events. Export them from your site using whatever tools you have available, convert them to CSV and import.
2. iCal — many calendars offer the ability export the data as an iCal. Using the iCal Importer  our calendar can directly import this data.

There are other options too, but they get increasingly complex and typically do not cover any use case that a CSV file would not. But it’s just easier to import as CSV. Depending on how your custom post type is setup this WordPress plugin might make it easier to export.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[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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