{"id":1242494,"date":"2017-02-20T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T23:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/whats-the-difference-between-ical-importer-and-event-aggregator\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T22:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:51:38","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-ical-importer-and-event-aggregator","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/whats-the-difference-between-ical-importer-and-event-aggregator\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between iCal Importer and Event Aggregator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to import calendar events from one WordPress website that is using The Events Calendar to a new website that will also be using The Events Calendar plugin.<\/p>\n<p>I only want to import events for a specific date range (Feb. 21-end of June 2017). Many of these events are recurring events.<\/p>\n<p>I pressed the &#8220;Export Month&#8217;s Events&#8221; to get an .ics file for the months of Feb. and March from our current site.<\/p>\n<p>Now I want to import those .ics files into our new site that is in development. We already have The Events Calendar PRO, The Events Calendar, and Events Calendar Colors plugins installed.<\/p>\n<p>Do I need to purchase the Event Aggregator plugin or the iCal importer plugin? What is the difference between these two? Which one is most cost effective and will be the right solution for what I&#8217;m trying to accomplish? I think I only need to import these events one time and then moving forward all future events will be entered manually.<\/p>\n<p>What do you recommend as my best course of action?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for a swift response!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1242494","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>What&#039;s the difference between iCal Importer and Event Aggregator? -<\/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\/whats-the-difference-between-ical-importer-and-event-aggregator\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s the difference between iCal Importer and Event Aggregator? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi &#8211; I&#8217;m trying to import calendar events from one WordPress website that is using The Events Calendar to a new website that will also be using The Events Calendar plugin. 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