{"id":29359,"date":"2012-12-13T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/custom-irregular-recurring-datestimes-custom-fields\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T08:57:07","slug":"custom-irregular-recurring-datestimes-custom-fields","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/custom-irregular-recurring-datestimes-custom-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Irregular Recurring Dates\/Times: Custom Fields?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen all over the place the request to allow for more in-depth customization of recurring events, to account for irregular recurrence that doesn&#8217;t match a pattern. (You can add me to that list). I also see it might make the 2.1 release, but unfortunately the site I&#8217;m developing needs to prelaunch in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>For example: I have a series of dates attached to a single event:<br \/>\nMay 4, 10am-1pm<br \/>\nMay 11, 11am-1pm<br \/>\nMay 18, 10am-1pm<\/p>\n<p>I can ALMOST use the recurring feature, except for that pesky different time. And I know a lot of other folks are trying to create more irregular repetition than that.<\/p>\n<p>I saw in this post a suggestion from Brandon to set up custom fields:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1h8vYxZque\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/recurring-events-and-custom-event-attributes\/\">Recurring events and Custom Event Attributes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Recurring events and Custom Event Attributes&#8221; &#8212; \" src=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/recurring-events-and-custom-event-attributes\/embed\/#?secret=frtANFD2HP#?secret=1h8vYxZque\" data-secret=\"1h8vYxZque\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He alludes to setting up custom event attributes using Custom Fields (in the Calendar Settings); the problem in that post is a different one from what I&#8217;m tackling, so I don&#8217;t want to muck up that thread.<\/p>\n<p>However, it made me wonder&#8230; are the dates and times managed by custom fields? I can&#8217;t enable custom fields in an Event edit page to see what&#8217;s going on, but if they are, I&#8217;m wondering if I can somehow create a reference to a specific recurring date and enter my own custom time in?<\/p>\n<p>1) Add an Advanced Custom Field control (I use advanced custom fields plugin by Elliot Condon) that allows a user to select a date&amp;time (in case we have multiple events on a single date)<br \/>\n2) Allow user to enter a new time range<br \/>\n3) When returning a query of events, as each event is being created, check to see if the altered time field is populated for that event, and return a different time.<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t know is how to alter how the event appears in the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Or, I just wait for the next version, and let my client know that for now they just need to enter in three different events. *shrug*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-29359","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>Custom Irregular Recurring Dates\/Times: Custom Fields? -<\/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\/custom-irregular-recurring-datestimes-custom-fields\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Custom Irregular Recurring Dates\/Times: Custom Fields? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hey there, I&#8217;ve seen all over the place the request to allow for more in-depth customization of recurring events, to account for irregular recurrence that doesn&#8217;t match a pattern. 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