Recurring Events with different venues.

[Dan]

We are working on a site where we need to support tours: The same event happening on different dates, in different venues. The different dates are handled by the “date” recurrence options but editing the venue breaks the Events out of the series.
The problem is that on the single events page I have to show the upcoming events in the series, so I was wondering what’s the best way to handle this. My first thought was to add a Taxonomy and tag the initial event with the taxonomy, as I’ve seen that events which “break out” of the recurrence still hold the taxonomy, so i will simply need to create a taxonomy for each “tour” and I can use that to get upcoming events.

[Brook]

Howdy Dan,

It sounds like you might be interested in voting on this feature request. We get the occasional person who wants this and its definitely a feature we’ve considered.

If you are a programmer you could basically adjust this yourself. The easiest way would actually be within the database. Each event is a post within wp_posts, and has its own post_meta data. You could adjust the venue ID for a given event, even the wording, taxonomies, etc. The only caveat is that if you ever edit the main event again it will override any changes here.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Dan]

Hi,

thanks, this makes sense, I’ll look into this.

[Brook]

I am happy to hear it! We have actually talked a lot about this feature even though it does not have a lot of votes (comparatively). It is something we are interested in adjusting just for the sake of feature completeness. We very well might be building it within the next year in spite of there being many more popular requests. For whatever that’s worth.

Cheers!

– Brook

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