{"id":1498008,"date":"2018-04-05T14:52:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/a-mess-has-been-made-updating-recurring-events\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:52:33","slug":"a-mess-has-been-made-updating-recurring-events","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/a-mess-has-been-made-updating-recurring-events\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mess Has Been Made, Updating Recurring Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SHORT version?<\/p>\n<p>When updating old events to entered mostly 2014 and 2015. Instead of the new dates appearing in 2018, it created recurring events from 2014 EVERY DAY thru 2018.<\/p>\n<p>My calendar has exploded. HELP!<\/p>\n<p>I just spent several hours updating events on my calendar that had not originally been set-up to recur annually. <\/p>\n<p>Shame on me for not looking at the front end, as it looked just find in the back end.<\/p>\n<p>When going to each (more than 200 edited today) event to change my all day events from (for example) April 5, 2015 &#8211; April 5, 2015 to April 5, 2018 &#8211; April 5, 2018 + repeat annually&#8230; for some reason most if not all instead did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>April 5, 2015 THRU April 5, 2018 so now I have more than 200 events happening EVERY day for YEARS and YEARS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand what I did wrong, when I saved the dates were all clearly showing only that single day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter, but I need to find a better way to fix the work, i.e. go into the database and make updates, export and be able to make corrections<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to my calendar:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/lsmguide.com\/marketing-holidays\/<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1498008","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>A Mess Has Been Made, Updating Recurring Events -<\/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\/a-mess-has-been-made-updating-recurring-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Mess Has Been Made, Updating Recurring Events -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The SHORT version? 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