{"id":1417790,"date":"2018-01-04T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/deleting-expired-events-in-a-recurring-series\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:53:10","slug":"deleting-expired-events-in-a-recurring-series","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/deleting-expired-events-in-a-recurring-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleting Expired Events in a recurring series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to find a simple way to remove the large amount of recurring events we have on our website, ideally we want to get rid of any that have already passed.<\/p>\n<p>However, we have a lot of events that will recur indefinitely every week with start dates going back to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In this thread I found a plugin that is more or less what I&#8217;m after:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AmTPOgx8TZ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/remove-events-if-start-date-has-passed\/\">Remove events if start date has passed<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Remove events if start date has passed&#8221; &#8212; \" src=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/remove-events-if-start-date-has-passed\/embed\/#?secret=DWSWRk6zXE#?secret=AmTPOgx8TZ\" data-secret=\"AmTPOgx8TZ\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However in my case I&#8217;m assuming it would remove any event with the end date being in the past, regardless of whether it is set to recur indefinitely. Is there a way to use this plugin, or a similar plugin, to only remove events with an expired end date if they are not set to recur indefinitely? ie, looking at the last date it is set to recur as opposed to the end date listed at the top?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Patrick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1417790","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>Deleting Expired Events in a recurring series -<\/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\/deleting-expired-events-in-a-recurring-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deleting Expired Events in a recurring series -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi there, I&#8217;ve been trying to find a simple way to remove the large amount of recurring events we have on our website, ideally we want to get rid of any that have already passed. 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