{"id":1065453,"date":"2016-02-01T00:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/need-to-delete-hundreds-of-duplicate-events\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:04:29","slug":"need-to-delete-hundreds-of-duplicate-events","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/need-to-delete-hundreds-of-duplicate-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to Delete Hundreds of Duplicate Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Events Calendar Pro for a few years, but recently it has been acting weird. I&#8217;ve gotten thousands of duplicate events showing up in my calendar, they eat up a lot of space and manually deleting them all is tedious and extremely time consuming. I don&#8217;t know how it has created all these duplicates and when I go to look at these duplicated events, they come up with 404 errors. They exist in the Events listing and they&#8217;re listing as &#8220;recurring&#8221;, but there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a root event that set these all up and when I try to edit them, they reload the events page instead of taking me to the event&#8217;s edit screen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve deleted transients, but all these duplicates are still in the database. My only recourse at the moment is to delete them using a SQL query but my fear is that this will happen again. There was a plugin that existed for this purpose a while ago called Housekeeper, but it seems to have disappeared. Any help would be appreciated because I really don&#8217;t want to manually delete over 4000 duplicate events or run a SQL query only to have this happen once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1065453","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>Need to Delete Hundreds of Duplicate 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\/need-to-delete-hundreds-of-duplicate-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Need to Delete Hundreds of Duplicate Events -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been using Events Calendar Pro for a few years, but recently it has been acting weird. 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