{"id":1117011,"date":"2016-05-20T07:50:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/sort-events-by-creation-date\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T23:19:32","slug":"sort-events-by-creation-date","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/sort-events-by-creation-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Sort Events by Creation Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I&#8217;m enjoying the plugin, but two of its limitations are clashing with each other, and they&#8217;re creating a miserable situation for me.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m trying to input swim times for a local pool. The times are a bit haphazard. Family swims are Mon-Fri from 9-10, and again at 12-2 (except on Wednedsays), and again at 7-8, and then on Saturdays from 11-1 and Sundays from 2-4. It&#8217;s all over the place. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Limitation #1<\/strong> is that Events Calendar PRO does not support multiple time windows for a recurring event. That means that for every new window, i have to create a completely different recurring event.<\/p>\n<p>So i downloaded an event duplication plugin that someone suggested plays nicely with ECPRO. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Limitation #2<\/strong> is that when Events are created, there is no creation date. So if i publish Family Swim 9-10, i want to jut click &#8220;Events&#8221; and duplicate that event and change the time to 12-2. But i can&#8217;t. The event that i <em>just published<\/em> 5 seconds ago is buried very deep, because events can only be temporally ordered by start date and end date. It&#8217;s quite frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>i can search for the Family Swim event, but because it&#8217;s recurring, i get a LOT of results, and the 9-10 Family Swim looks identical to the 12-2 Family Swim because the title often gets cut off in my view.  It makes this task extremely onerous. There are 4 or 5 pools in my city, each with similarly complicated schedules that refresh every couple of months. i want to make this as painless as possible.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a more reasonable feature request: multiple time windows for an Event, or creation dates for Events? And are either of them likely to happen any time soon?  How much trouble will i get into if i try to modify the code myself to store those creation dates?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ryan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1117011","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>Sort Events by Creation Date -<\/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\/sort-events-by-creation-date\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sort Events by Creation Date -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi! 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