Problem with import and custom fields

[roselyne]

Hello,

I’m trying to import nearly 300 events from our old theme that had built-in events. The problem is with the event start date and end date. I can import the events (with WordPress importer or manually in the database) but I’m stuck because the start and end dates were custom fields so these fields won’t import and the events are automatically set as starting and ending today.

What would be the best option to import the events with the right dates without having to set it manually in the admin panel?

Thank you.

[Andras]

Hello Roselyne,

Thanks for using the Events Calendar.

Here on the pre-sales forum, I’m afraid we do not provide technical support. I would ask that you take any technical support questions across to our wordpress.org forum – our staff scan it periodically and other community members may also be able to help out.

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If you have purchased a plugin from us, please login and post in the premium forums for that plugin and we can help you out there:

https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/

To get you started, I believe migrating your database would maybe be the easiest in this case. I’m not sure what custom fields you are using, but migrating the wp_posts and wp_postmeta table should do it.

In case you want the dates & times to appear properly, then I’m afraid you will need to do that manually one at a time.

Thanks again for reaching out!

Cheers,
Andras

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