Prevent Haywire Recurring Events

[Jackson Whelan]

It would be really great if the plugin warned users before creating 15,000 events. I see this about once every 3 months and it’s always a big problem. Just some feedback!

[Hunter]

Hey Jackson,

Welcome to our support forums 🙂

You bring up a great point! If you wouldn’t mind, can you elaborate on the following sentence?

I see this about once every 3 months and it’s always a big problem.

Are you having an unnecessary amount of recurring events randomly generated for no reason every so often? We have a few bug/feature reports aimed at improving many aspects of the recurring events functionality and user experience, but it would be helpful if you could visit our UserVoice Feature Ideas and provide a detailed explanation of your concerns so we can hopefully get them addressed in an upcoming release.

Thank you for the constructive criticism and please keep me posted. Cheers!

[Jackson Whelan]

The reason usually seems to be that user made an error in data entry and does not realize it, and the combination of bad dates and a bad rule = thousands of events being created, which then times out when trying to delete them all, so you end up going into the database and running queries to clean up all the posts and attendant post meta.

So my suggestion would be a ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ sanity check when the combination of dates and rules equals more than 100 events being created.

I think the common way this happens is they have a daily event and set the start and end date to equal the first and last occurrence, but instead it creates many copies of an event that lasts a month, etc.

[Hunter]

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to respond! We love hearing this type of feedback, so what I’ve done is added your input as a feature request and hopefully we will incorporate into an upcoming release.

I’ll close this thread out for now but feel free to open a new thread if you have any new questions or concerns. Take care!

[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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