{"id":1114912,"date":"2016-05-16T07:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/recurring-events-buffer\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T14:50:44","slug":"recurring-events-buffer","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/recurring-events-buffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Recurring Events \/ Buffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default the buffer is 24 months in the past and 24 months in the future to create and keep recurring events. For a church that has events that has daily events that recur every week, I quickly understood the ramifications of this default when 1000&#8217;s of events clogged up my backend and database. I have since changed it to 6 months to try and get control of the situation, but it does nothing to actually get rid of the events that were initially created. Your knowledge base states:<\/p>\n<p>Please note that changing these settings will not change event instances that have already been created. It will effect any new events or events instances going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any way to get rid of the 2 years worth of future events for events I&#8217;ve already created? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1114912","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>Recurring Events \/ Buffer -<\/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\/recurring-events-buffer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recurring Events \/ Buffer -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By default the buffer is 24 months in the past and 24 months in the future to create and keep recurring events. 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