Removing recurring events

[Katie]

Hi – my client created an event to recur monthly for the next hundred years, and it’s choked up the database. What’s the best way to remove this without wiping all events?

Many thanks,
Katie

[Jonah]

Hi Katie,

So can you not access the WordPress admin and delete the event? You could try increasing PHP memory: http://www.dailyblogging.org/wordpress/increase-wordpress-memory-limit/

Otherwise, you’ll need to delete the event(s) manually in the database. They’ll be stored in the wp_posts table.

I hope that helps!

– Jonah

[Katie]

Hey Jonah, thanks for the quick response! I can access the Dashboard, though there are many events in there – 1200, 12 for 100 years. Is there a way to just delete the event in one place somehow?

[Jonah]

Hi Katie,

If you delete one instance of a recurring event it will ask you if you want to delete all events or just that one, so you could delete them all that way if you can load the page.

[Katie]

Oh awesome, okay – yeah, something strange is going on with my site and now it’s not even connecting to the database – I’m not sure if these events are related or not. I’ll be in touch if they are. 🙂 Thanks again for the quick help!

[Ryan]

Is there any way to make your plugin less of a hog for this?

Because this is really messing up a client’s launch, a gym that has… well. Tons of events. Now through repeatings there are only ACTUAL 77 event posts. But this is completely destroying the server.

[Jonah]

Hi Ryan,

There is no way to reduce the load our plugin has on your server. The only things you can do are try tweaking things as much as possible on the server – i.e. increasing PHP memory and the WordPress memory limit. Aside from that I don’t think there’s much else that can be done right now. We are always working on improving performance and do have a huge update coming soon but for right now you are stuck with the current functionality. What exactly is going on in your case?

– Jonah

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