Jetpack’s publicize publishes all recurring events at creation to social media

[Erica]

We are using Jetpack’s publicize to share events on social media. We are also using Events Calendar Pro for recurring events. When we create a recurring event, all event occurrences get shared on social media. Is there a way to only publish the first event and have the recurring ones publish at another time?

[Andras]

Hello Erica,

Thanks for going Pro and welcome to the forums! Great question you have there and thank you for reaching out.

Unfortunately how Jetpack works is not our domain and we cannot influence or change how Publicize works. It basically pushes a post to the social networks when they are being published. When you are creating a recurring event, then all recurrences are immediately published on your calendar so they are also pushed to the social networks.

Only way around this could be if you create the recurring event, but only add new recurrences when you want them to be publicized. But that means they would also only appear in your calendar at that time.

Other solution would be using a different plugin for sharing on social networks that lets you choose the time of sharing.

Does this answer your question?

Cheers,
Andras

[Andras]

Curiosity was driving me a bit so …

Maybe this will help you as a customization:

WordPress: re-enable Publicize for already published posts via Jetpack Publicize

Or this as a replacement plugin:

15+ Plugins To Get Jetpack Functionality Without Using Jetpack

Cheers,
Andras

[Erica]

Yes, that does help give me options. I appreciate your help.

[Andras]

Hi Erica,

Thanks for getting back to me on that.

Since you marked this topic resolved I am going to close it, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please post a new topic in the forum and we will help you out.

Cheers,
Andras

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