{"id":1160999,"date":"2016-09-07T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/adding-an-empty-recurring-import\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:30:55","slug":"adding-an-empty-recurring-import","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/adding-an-empty-recurring-import\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding an Empty Recurring Import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got a client who wants to display events by department on the individual department sub-pages, so I&#8217;m using their separate iCal feeds and mapping them to event categories. This is working great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The problem: <\/strong><br \/>\nThere are some departments without events currently scheduled, so the feed is empty, and this prevents the recurring import from being created. These feeds are public facing, so I would like to avoid creating a test event to setup the import. Is there a way to setup the recurring import from an empty feed? <\/p>\n<p>Can I prevent the plugin from loading a certain function or check that prevents an empty feed from being added? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve looked into adding the imports into the database directly, but it seems too complicated\/dangerous to be messing around in wp-cron&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1160999","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>Adding an Empty Recurring Import -<\/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\/adding-an-empty-recurring-import\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adding an Empty Recurring Import -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello! 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