Re-Importing Deleted Events, Featured Image, Venue Info

[Ryan]

Hey TEC Team,

We have been working on the iCal feed integration and all-in-all we are very satisfied and this is a huge asset to our project. Came across a few things while setting up the first feed that I had some questions on:

1. When doing the first import I set them to import as a ‘draft’ – unfortunately, this also meant it imported the venue as a draft, so rather than go through and manually publish both the venue and the event I confirmed that I was happy with the import then went through and deleted all the imports (deleted and then permanently removed from trash) and tried to re-import with as ‘published’. Unfortunately, it won’t find any of those events. I’m assuming there is some reference to them in the DB so they are probably considered as duplicates or already imported. Any suggestions?

2. The import does not bring over the image – this is most likely a result of the iCal feed we are receiving, but thought I would check.

3. The venue details are not brought over (address) – again, this is most likely a result of the feed we receive but thought I would check.

Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Matt

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for using our plugins. I can help out here.

Even if you delete an event in WordPress it still keeps a copy of the event in the database and that is preventing it from being reimported as it finds it again.

It looks like this plugin might work for you to delete trashed events from the database:

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

It does not do it by default, but there is a setting to Delete Trashed Items.

And the image and the Venue address are not part of the iCal format so they do not get pulled over.

I believe if you already have the Venue in your database it will use it instead of creating a new one.

Let me know if you have any follow up questions.

Thanks

[Ryan]

Hey Brian,

Thanks for pointing out that plugin – that worked perfectly. I assumed there was a copy of it in the DB so this is a great way to address that (and clean up other stuff at the same time). So thanks!

I assumed that was the issue with the image and venue details, but it was worth a shot.

All good and thanks again!

Matt

[Brian]

Great glad it helps.

I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please post a new topic on the forum and we can help you out.

Thanks

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