Is it possible to show recurring events only in the calendar not the list view?

[Dominic]

We have regular weekly events that I would like to add to the calendar where we have our entertainment listed, but do not want the list view or widget to show every weekly recurring event. Is it possible to do this?

[Barry]

Hi Dominic: does the Recurring event instances setting (found in Events → Settings → General) broadly meet your needs here?

[Dominic]

No. Recurring events lists every instance of the event in the list and because there are 10 weekly events the list is very long and look wrong.I woud like recurring events only to be shown in calendar view, that way the list view only shows the events we want and thew calendar becomes nicely populated with all events

[Dominic]

sorry for the typos

[Barry]

There does seem to be an issue with that setting in the current release – but I can see that in our soon-to-be-released update this setting works as expected (and our next maintenance release should arrive shortly). If you can hold tight until that happens that would be fantastic 🙂

Based on what you’re telling me though I’m not entirely sure if that setting, even if it were fully functional, would entirely meets your needs – can you clarify if in list view you wish to hide all recurring events and even hide the first instance from the list – so that there is no trace of recurring events whatsoever in those views?

If that is what you are trying to do I’m afraid The Events Calendar isn’t built to allow this – so you’d have a choice between building your own customization to enforce this new rule and/or we’d be happy to see a feature request for this, if you want to post one at tribe.uservoice.com.

Thanks!

[Dominic]

Thanks for your quick response Barry.

I would prefer to hide ALL recurring events in list view but could live with first instance as I assume as the date passes it would disappear from the list anyway.
If this is not possible in the next update or near future, who would I need to talk to regarding customization for our needs?

thanks

[Barry]

We could happily provide you with a list of experienced freelancers if you would like?

[Dominic]

This reply is private.

[Barry]

Certainly:

WerkPress (http://www.werkpress.com)
WP Valet (http://thewpvalet.com/)
Ryan Neudorf (http://ohryan.ca/)
Treefort (http://treefort.net/)
Cheeky Monkey (http://cheekymonkeymedia.ca/)
The Mighty Mo! (http://www.themightymo.com/)
David Bisset (http://www.davidbisset.com/)
Donald Grover (http://groverwebdesign.com/)
Chris Miller (http://launchbrigade.com)

I hope that helps (and will now close this thread). If there is anything else we can assist with please don’t hesitate to create new threads as required.

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