Managing irregularly recurring events

[Zoe]

My question is about Managing Irregularly Recurring Events & Best Practices for Naming those Events.

This refers to a thread Aug 30, 2014 “Possible to DUPLICATE events”?
Prevous user, “fnfweb, wrote:

For the website that we’re running, people are going to be hosting many of the same events over and over but there isn’t really going to be a rhythm that would qualify them as “recurring”. Would it be possible to add the link “Duplicate” under each of the events in the “My Events” section so that people can make a copy of their past events and then just change the date and time?

In that thread, Forum User, Brian, responded with: … you could use a plugin like Duplicate Post to “clone” your Events.

I, too, have recurring events here and there but they are not in any regular pattern. Along those lines, what about best practices for naming my posts, espec if they are recurring or repetitive? If I duplicate a post, shouldn’t all posts have unique names? If I am having an event named “Shoe Party @Hilton”, how can I name that so it does not confuse with other “Shoe Party @Hilton” events and also has a relevant permalink?

I could name it “Shoe Party @Hilton Aug 5, 2015”, but then the date is mentioned twice, not very elegant.

Thank you for any insight

Zoe

[Brook]

Howdy Zoe,

That is a good question. I’ll help you sort this out.

If I duplicate a post, shouldn’t all posts have unique names?

Fortunately, no. All posts do not need unique names. You will notice that the URLs (slugs) for them will be automatically incremented. So if you have two events named “Shoe Party @Hilton” the URLs will automatically become something like this:

• example.com/event/shoe-party-hilton
• example.com/event/shoe-party-hilton-2

And so forth. So, just naming those events the same should be fine, no worries there.

I do want to make you aware that as of 3.12, we should have a feature ready to fully support random recurring events. Once that has passed quality assurance and is released, you will be able to create these recurring series of events without a post duplicator!

Does that all make sense? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Zoe]

Thank you so much for your thorough response!

[Brook]

You’re super welcome! Thank you for letting us know that answers your query. 🙂

– Brook

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