Recurring events query

[Neill]

I’ve just upgraded to the Pro version and have a query on recurring events. I’d like to use it for events of historic significance, a kind of ‘On The Day’ feature that will develop into a resource. Obviously, I’d like to have just a singe occurrence of the events, with the calendar linking to this each year.
Browsing the forums, I see that prior to V3.0, it created multiples. Can you confirm that this is no loner the case and that the calendar links to the one item of content?

Thanks,
Neill W

[Brook]

Howdy Neill,

That’s an interesting question. To answer I think it will help to show you some examples of how a recurring event appears on the front end. Here is a recurring event example. This particular event happens ever 3rd Wednesday of each month. Here is the recurrence that happens on March 18th:

http://wpshindig.com/event/wordpress-santa-cruz-meetup/2015-03-18/

It looks and behaves like any other event, but there is essentially a duplicate of it every third Wednesday of every month as you can see here:

http://wpshindig.com/event/wordpress-santa-cruz-meetup/all/

Does that answer your question? You asked if it creates duplicates. It definitely does. Pre 3.0, especially pre 3.3, it behaved a little bit differently but it still essentially had duplicates.

The only caveat is that there is a setting which limits how long to keep recurring events for. If you want to keep a historical archive you might need to disable this feature. By default it only keeps recurrences for 24 months before it deletes them.

Let me know if that helps paint a clear picture. Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Since this topic has gone for a spell without any update we are going to archive it. 🙂 If you need anything else though, please feel free to open a new topic. We would love to help.

Cheers!

– Brook

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