Recurring Events Question

[Brittany]

After looking at a site audit it looks like the way the Events Calendar is set up causes the reoccurring events to be counted as duplicate content. Does recurring events in PRO prevent the recurring event from being counted as duplicate content? Is a recurring event supposed to be listed in the events multiple times?

[Geoff]

Hi Brittany,

Great question!

Recurring events are a feature that is exclusive to Events Calendar PRO. You caa duplicate events in The Events Calendar, but they will not be grouped or related to one another in the same “series” of events as they would be in Events Calendar PRO when using the recurrence settings.

Yes, each instance of an event in a recurring series is it’s own post in WordPress. That means you can edit or remove a singular instance of the series without it impacting the rest.

However, the posts, are also properly indexed by Google and other search engines to ensure that they do not count negatively toward having duplicate content on your site. In other words, each post contains unique identifiers and markup tags in the code to ensure that they are recognized as  unique calendar events on a website, even if content is similar or identical across multiple events.

And, yes, there is indeed a setting where you can choose to show only the next upcoming event in a recurring series on the calendar instead of listing them all. There are also options to limit how far in advance recurring events can be displayed at a time and to clean up past recurring events after a certain amount of time has past.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[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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