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BTW, for anyone else having a problem with duplicate URL’s because of recurring events, you can use the code below in your htaccess to redirect all of the URL’s with dates in them to the main event page that won’t have the dates in them. If you don’t know about htacces do NOT use this. Get some help from someone that does know about regular expressions. Anyway, if you implment the redirect below, you can then just create recurring events that show up in the calendar, add the dates to customs fields on a main post, and then just redirect all those other pesky date events to the main post.
Redirect:
/event/(.+?)-[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}/{0,1}
to
/event/$1/Thank you for feedback. I submitted this to the User Voice Features. Honestly, you have a great plugin, in general, so I see no need to ask for a refund, and I’m hoping my payment as well as others will get your team to fix this feature soon, because recurring events is basically useless as is. It is just shocking to me that recurring events was coded in this manner, when it is so obvious that dates should simply be stored as multiple custom fields for one event. Also, it is so contrary to basic coding practice to duplicate something in this manner (you simply don’t duplicate things, that have a one-to-many relationship – you just need one ID and then store the MANY referencing the one ID – so ONE event and then store the dates as custom fields referncing the ONE event) , that it makes me wary of buying your other premium add-ons that I need also. Anyway, thanks again for all your hard work and keep it up.
No you are not missing anything. It’s a massive pain. What I do right now is to make an event recurring and then have the Events create all the event posts with the recurring dates. This way they show up in the calendar. Then I just go to the first event that is published (the one with the URL without any dates) and add all the recurring dates into seperate custom fields. This becomes my main event post. I use basic wordpress to then display these date custom fields on the course page. Finally, I redirect all the other posts for this course which differ only because of the date, to the main event post. In that way, the other posts with different dates will show up in the calender, but when a user clicks on that post, they are just redirected to the first main event post, where the dates are entered into the custom fields.
Yes, this is a hack and a massive pain. But, I see no other way to do it, until they fix this. Im also a little pissed I paid for recurring events, when the thought process behind implementing this feature is so backwards.
