{"id":1014261,"date":"2015-10-13T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/bulk-update-importing-events\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:05:04","slug":"bulk-update-importing-events","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/bulk-update-importing-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulk Update \/ Importing Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just imported 100s of events&#8230; much to my sadness&#8230; there was no way I could see to automatically set these to recurring events. (Even though there is a import column for this).<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way to do a bulk change?<\/p>\n<p>Or did I do something wrong that I can&#8217;t have annually repeated events import that way?<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, I sure don&#8217;t want to have to go into each one now and change the recurrence rule to REPEAT and NEVER for 235 events!<\/p>\n<p>I did make a back-up of my site before importing, if I need to rewind my site and do something different.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also happy to do something in the tables of my database &#8211; if I have to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anything to avoid manual entry of these please \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1014261","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bulk Update \/ Importing Events -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/bulk-update-importing-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulk Update \/ Importing Events -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I just imported 100s of events&#8230; much to my sadness&#8230; there was no way I could see to automatically set these to recurring events. 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