Recurring Events in WP Search

[inhouse]

Hello, we’re seeing tons and tons of recurring events in the WP search. Is there a way to only display the next occurrence of each recurring event? We are using Relevanssi search to improve the default WP search but this doesn’t help with recurring events. I understand that TEC technically creates duplicates of each event post but there must be a way to prioritize the next occurrence post so it returns in search but none of the others do. Wouldn’t it be very close to the “Recurring event instances” checkbox that says “Show only the first instance of each recurring event (only affects list-style views).”? We don’t have this checked but it seems like it would be within the plugin ability to provide this functionality for search results. Any help is appreciated!

[inhouse]

The Relevanssi Search developer provided a function which takes care of this. This won’t help if you’re not using the Relevanssi plugin but I highly recommend it as it greatly improves the WP search.

Showing only one recurring event

[Courtney]

Hi Teresa

Thank you for sharing Relevanssi’s solution. That will be helpful for other users too! Does this resolve your request?

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[inhouse]

It solves my problem thanks to Relevanssi. To me, it’s still an issue as the plugin should be tidying up recurring events for search results without the need for custom programming.

[Courtney]

Thanks Teresa

We haven’t had a record of this issue happening outside of Relevanssi. I will keep my eyes out for it though. Thanks again.

[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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