The Events Calendar Event Imports tools make it simple to bring all your schedules together in one centralized place. Manually copying data from various platforms into your WordPress calendar wastes time and leads to easy-to-miss mistakes. By setting up automated feeds, you can pull your complete schedule directly into your site, turning a scattered collection of dates into a single, cohesive calendar.

You can configure and customize your data feeds using a straightforward set of settings and built-in options. The guides in this collection walk you through managing your import authority, setting automated date limits, and choosing between asynchronous processing or cron-based tasks. You will learn how to fine-tune exactly how your imported content maps to local fields so that existing data is never unexpectedly lost or overwritten.

If you have specific layout needs or require custom data handling, you can use specialized action and filter hooks to change the incoming data on the fly. These technical articles demonstrate how to modify data strings automatically before saving new events to your database. Follow along with these resources to learn how to filter your feeds by specific URLs, strip away unwanted taxonomies, and programmatically attach featured images based on your source files.

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Review these detailed tutorials to learn how to connect external calendars, adjust sync settings, and apply custom code snippets to your imported event data.

Configuring Event Imports
You can find the full list of settings for Event Aggregator by navigating to Events → Settings from your WordPress admin’s sidebar, then selecting the Imports tab at the top of the page. All users of The Events Calendar have access to the CSV importer tool and its associated settings. If you have a license…
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Customizing Event Imports
Event Aggregator is a great tool to fill your calendar with events from different sources. Event data is transferred from one site (the source) to the other (the destination) in the form of structured data in JSON format. The data structure follows the iCalendar specification. There is a predefined way how the data is handled…
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Getting Started with Event Imports
The Events Calendar comes with an importing tool called Event Aggregator. Anyone can use Event Aggregator for free to import information from a CSV file. Users who have purchased a license for Event Aggregator can import from more sources (including Google Calendar and iCalendar) and can set up automatically scheduled imports. The steps below will help you get…
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Importing Calendar Data From a CSV File
The Events Calendar includes a CSV importer that lets you import events, venues, organizers, RSVPs, and tickets into your site’s calendar in bulk. The importer is part of the Event Aggregator plugin, but the CSV import tool itself is free and included when you install The Events Calendar — you don’t need an Event Aggregator…
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Importing Events from Another Calendar Feed or URL
Event Aggregator lets you automatically import events from outside calendar sources into The Events Calendar on your WordPress site. This guide covers everything you need to configure, run, and manage imports — from selecting the right source to scheduling automatic refreshes. Separate articles cover importing from a CSV file (included with the free The Events…
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Managing Imported Events
Once events have been imported into The Events Calendar with Event Aggregator, there are a few different management surfaces to know about: the imported events themselves, the Ignored archive (for removing events from your calendar without losing them), and the Scheduled Imports tab (for managing repeating imports). This article covers all three. For the import…
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Troubleshooting Event Imports
Importing events with Event Aggregator is usually painless — but when something goes wrong, the failure mode matters. This article covers the most common import problems: duplicate events multiplying on your calendar, events that silently fail to import, and the error messages you may see when importing from another site’s REST API. How Event Aggregator…
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