{"id":1207965,"date":"2016-12-19T17:31:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/re-recurring-events-very-flawed\/"},"modified":"2016-12-19T17:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:31:31","slug":"re-recurring-events-very-flawed","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/re-recurring-events-very-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"re: Recurring Events Very Flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great plugin, in general, but your thought process around recurring events is quite backwards. Basically, for recurring events you simply create a new post for every single date for the event, and thereby create duplicate posts of the same exact event. If an event that recurs is only different due to dates, what is the point of creating duplicate posts of the same content? Aside from creating duplicate content for SEO, this overloads the database with unneccessary content, and makes it hard to manage when you have alot of events with recurring dates. In my opinion, the better way to do this (and I&#8217;ve had to tweak your plugin to get this to work), is to use custom fields to store the different dates from the same course. So basically, the event is listed once, and the dates for that event are simply store as additional custom fields (key-value) for that post. I recommend you re-work your plugin to do recurring events that way. It is more intuitive, easier to manage, and you eliminate the issue with recurring content. 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