{"id":104522,"date":"2014-02-14T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/facebook-events-feature-questions\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:30:40","slug":"facebook-events-feature-questions","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/facebook-events-feature-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Events Feature Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a couple of questions about the functionality of the Facebook<br \/>\nEvents plugin for The Events Calendar. First, I noticed on one of the<br \/>\nscreenshots that it has a box to &#8220;Import arbitrary events by their<br \/>\nFacebook ID&#8221;. 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So I&#8217;m just<br \/>\nlooking for alternatives for letting them auto-import their events from<br \/>\nFacebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-104522","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>Facebook Events Feature Questions -<\/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\/facebook-events-feature-questions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facebook Events Feature Questions -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a couple of questions about the functionality of the Facebook Events plugin for The Events Calendar. 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