{"id":1383476,"date":"2017-11-15T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/events-calendar-upgrade-converts-existing-events-to-recurring-ones\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:37:51","slug":"events-calendar-upgrade-converts-existing-events-to-recurring-ones","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/events-calendar-upgrade-converts-existing-events-to-recurring-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Events Calendar Upgrade converts existing events to recurring ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re trying to upgrade a website which has quite old versions of a lot of plugins to the latest versions. After the upgrade it appears that all the pre-existing events have been changed to recurring events. In the Edit Event admin screen, in Event Series, they are shown set to Daily, every 1 day, with an &#8220;Add more events&#8221; button (rather than just showing a &#8220;Schedule multiple events&#8221; button), and under &#8220;Tickets&#8221;  there is a warning in red saying &#8220;This is a recurring event. If you add tickets they will only show up on the next upcoming event in the recurrence pattern&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you then click &#8220;Update&#8221; to save the event, it generates hundreds of events for successive days. Luckily we are testing this on a copy of the site on a staging server rather than the live site!<\/p>\n<p>This looks like a bug, or are we missing something we need to do after the upgrade?<\/p>\n<p>These are the old and new versions of WordPress and the relevant plugins:-<\/p>\n<p>WordPress 4.7.7 =&gt; 4.8.2<br \/>\nThe Events Calendar 3.11.2 =&gt; 4.6.4<br \/>\nThe Events Calendar PRO 3.11.1 =&gt; 4.4.19<br \/>\nWooCommerce 2.4.6 =&gt; 3.2.3<br \/>\nThe Events Calendar: WooCommerce Tickets 3.11 =&gt; Event Tickets 4.6.0 and Event Tickets Plus 4.6.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1383476","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>Events Calendar Upgrade converts existing events to recurring ones -<\/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\/events-calendar-upgrade-converts-existing-events-to-recurring-ones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Events Calendar Upgrade converts existing events to recurring ones -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We&#8217;re trying to upgrade a website which has quite old versions of a lot of plugins to the latest versions. 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