Transferring data from different cal plugin to The Events Calendar plugin?

[Megyn]

Hello,
I’m looking to switch to The Events Calendar plugin from the WP calendar plugin we use now that is not performing the way we want it to (I’ll name names, it’s MyEventon). We already have a lot of events entered in our old calendar, and I’m wondering if there’s an easy, time-saving way to transfer event listings, venue names/locations, organizer info, etc. to The Events Calendar?
Thanks for any info you can provide!
~Megyn

[Geoff]

Hey there, Megyn!

I’m really stoked to hear you’re looking at The Events Calendar and hope it’s a good fit for you. 🙂

Does your current calendar allow you to export your data into a CSV file? If so, we do have a handy CSV importer that will allow you to pull in all that information for events, venues and organizers so you don’t have to do enter all that back in from scratch–definitely a time saver.

Another way to do it would be to use the import tool that comes with WordPress. However, that’s also assuming that your current calendar is compatible with that. You can check by heading to Tools > Export from the WordPress dashboard and seeing if events, organizers and venues are available options to export. Still, I think the CSV Importer is the smoothest way to go.

Does this help and will either of those methods work for you? Please feel free to let me know if you have any follow-up questions here and I’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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