Somehow we generated over 75,000 bogus recurring events! They seem to contain no actual data and won’t delete. The majority display ‘(no title)’ as the title, the current date as the start and end dates, and no other info. Some list the title as ‘Unnamed Venue’, all else the same.<\/p>\n
Each bogus event seems to have a unique post ID. (For obvious reasons I haven’t checked them all, but if I look at 20 they’re all different, in consecutive chunks of about 6 or 8.) When I look at the post slugs they repeat – several hundred events with identical slugs. The slugs are almost – but not quite – identical to events whose meta title was edited (through the Yoast SEO plugin) in the last week or two. An event whose slug is ‘commencement-5’ had its title edited from ‘Commencement’ to ‘2017 Commencement’ and meta title changed to Commencement – May 13, 2017, and several hundred of bogus events have the slug ‘2017-commencement’.<\/p>\n
When I try to delete the bogus events the wheels go around, often for a long time. I never try to delete more than 20 at a time, that always crashes. Frequently the page times out. If it resolves, there’s a message that says “X posts deleted”, but the total number of posts hasn’t changed and there’s nothing in the trash. If I check the WP Optimize page, which lists the number of posts in the trash, that also shows nothing in the trash.<\/p>\n
I checked the error log I have access to on the server, there are no Fatal Errors and nothing related to Tribe Events. I’m running the current versions of Tribe Events and Tribe Events Pro. I tried editing a couple of events on our local dev site to try to replicate the problem but didn’t get any. I can’t change the theme or turn off most of the plugins on the real site because it makes the site unusable.<\/p>\n
PLEASE, how can I delete these 75,000 entries? I can go into our DB directly if that’s the only way and I know what to look for.<\/p>\n
Thank you, Susan Paigen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1239261","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n