Recurring events

[Shawn Cunningham]

We are looking for a new calendar for our newspaper site. In Vermont, the municipal meetings – select board, planning commission, zoning – are scheduled for a certain day, but not a certain date. For example regular select board meetings might be on the first and third Monday while planning commission is on the second and fourth Monday. Our current calendar can’t accommodate this as a recurring event so we have to enter each meeting individually. The average town has three or four such boards meeting a couple of times a month and we cover seven towns and counting. I looked at the tutorial, but didn’t see a way to do this. Have I missed something or is this impossible in The Events Calendar.

[Caroline]

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for reaching out! While the type of logic required to automatically schedule events on, say, a second or fourth Monday of a given month, doesn’t currently exist within our plugins, you can likely achieve the same effect with Events Calendar PRO by using the Weekly recurrence type. Simply create your event for the first date in your event series, then choose the Weekly recurrence type and select the day (or days) of the week that you’d like future recurrences to fall on. You can then make adjustments as needed to space out your dates properly, add additional recurrence rules for each month to accommodate for different numbers of days or changes to your schedules, or add exclusions to exclude certain dates from your series. It sounds like you’ve already reviewed our Knowledgebase article on recurring events, but you may find that the best way to get comfortable with our event series functionality is to try it for yourself! Should you find that it’s not an ideal fit for your needs, you’ll be covered under our 30-day refund policy.

I hope that helps to get you started here! Thanks again, and please don’t hesitate to follow up if you should have any other questions or concerns! 🙂

[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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