Upcoming Events Widget

[Susan]

How do I make this widget show ONLY the upcoming events and not all the events for the month? I’m fairly new to WordPress.

[Jonah]

Hi Susan,

I see the widget on the website you provided and it’s only showing the next 5 events. Are you seeing something different or do you need it to show something different?

– Jonah

[Susan]

If you look at the dates, it seems to be showing events that have passed as well.

[Jonah]

Hi Susan,

I see what’s happening, you’ve got a couple events set to recur out for a number of years. It also looks like you put an end date on these, causing them to actually occur every day up until the end date, creating not only lots of instances of the event but also making them show up in the widget they way they are. At least this is my hunch. How do you have the “Tate & Stephanie Daniel’s Anniversary” event configured? Can you provide me a screenshot?

Thanks,
Jonah

[Susan]

Under “Event Time & Date”
All day event: checked
Start Date / Time: 2013-01-02
End Date / Time: 2063-01-02 (this field looked to be required so I just picked a “healthy” year”
Recurrence: Every Year > End On > 2063-01-02

I’m not sure if this was the correct way to do an event that happens once a year, or events that happen once a week.

[Jonah]

Hi Susan,

Yes, so here’s the problem. If you set an end date like that, you’re saying that the event happens every day from 1/2/2013 until 1/2/2063 which not only creates tons of events on your website, but also causes the issue we are seeing. Instead, what you want to do is leave the end date as is, since if you were just creating that event for one day, the end date would be the same day. Then, set it to recur every year for x number of years you want, and it will create that event every year on that date.

So, I would delete the existing events you’ve created and then recreate it with the proper date/recurrence settings.

Does that help?

– Jonah

[Susan]

Thanks! It worked!

[Jonah]

Excellent Susan! Are you all set here then? If you need help with anything else, just create another thread.

Thanks,
Jonah

[Susan]

yes, I’m good. Thanks again for the help. I wish there was this kind of support for all WordPress themes and plugins.

[Jonah]

🙂

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