Recurring Events Not Being Created

[Troy]

Hello,

I’ve been running version 3.10 on my site for a while. I noticed this week that future recurring events stopped being created at some point, even though I have the recurrence rules set to never end.

I searched the forum and saw the other topics in which other users reported similar issues. I changed the Datepicker Date Format to 01/15/2015 as suggested in this topic. I also updated the plugin to 3.12.1, which I understand is supposed to correct the issue.

However, I’m still not seeing the recurring events beyond this week on the front-end for most events. If I edit a recurring event and hit Update without changing anything, the future events are properly generated. This worked even before I updated from 3.10. But this is a very tedious process and would take a very long time for me to do for all my recurring events.

I had thought that maybe I just need to give it some time to process the future events. I installed the WP Crontrol plugin suggested in this topic to see if I could force the tribe-recurrence-cron cron job to run immediately. I receive a message that the cron job ran successfully when I do that, yet I still don’t see the future events on my calendars.

Any ideas on how we can get the future recurring events to start being created again?

Thank you!

[George]

Hey @eosfitness,

I’m really sorry to hear that our 3.12 update didn’t fix this on your site! Thanks for your testing and debugging so far, and for sharing your findings there – that puts us ahead in the troubleshooting process a bit and saves some time.

For starters, can you share your full “System Information” with us? Here’s how to do that → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/sharing-sys-info/

The information there may be helpful, because as you noted, both the 3.12 update and the manual cron-running should, in theory, help resolve this…seeing the full profile of your site might help reveal why that’s no working as intended.

In the meantime, also, can you confirm if things work fine for new Recurring Events that you try and create? In other words, do these issues only affect your pre-existing events, or do the issues affect even brand-new events that you create today, for example?

Thank you!
George

[Troy]

New recurring events work fine, updating existing events will recreate the future events for the recurrence window (3 months). Unfortunately, the volume of events that would need to be updated is too great for it to be feasible as a manual process.

Is there a command that we can run that might re-save each recurring event without having to do this manually? I realize the cron is supposed to do this but in its absence, is there an alternative?

Server details to follow in a private post.

[Troy]

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[Troy]

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[Troy]

Hello, just wanted to check in to see if the server details were any help.

Is there something we can run to re-save all recurring events at once so the future events will be generated again?

Thanks!

[George]

Hey Troy,

Thank you for the information and for your patience. I’ve taken a look through all of your system information; nothing is alarming there.

I’ve tried recreating this on my own testing site as well; I have not been able to reproduce the issue there.

With these details in mind, then, your comment here means a lot:

New recurring events work fine

If New recurring events work fine, then the issue was likely the old bug that the 3.12.x releases fixed, and the version mis-match on your site led this issue persist even after you updated the core plugin to 3.12.x. So unfortunately your diagnosis about having to manually update old recurring events is correct.

Which leads us to your question here:

Is there something we can run to re-save all recurring events at once so the future events will be generated again?

There’s no default or built-in way to do this, but there are a number of WordPress plugins out there that allow bulk update functionality. I have not personally tried one and do not personally recommend any specific one, however, so what I would personally recommend is using WordPress’ built-in bulk edit feature. This essentially just opens the “Quick Edit” view for all items in an admin list of posts or post types like Events, and you can then just basically click “update” down the right side of the screen and update a bunch of posts much faster than going to each one manually.

Here’s an article that demonstrates this built-in WordPress functionality → https://bobwp.com/bulk-edit-posts-wordpress/

I hope that helps!

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