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The Events Calendar Event Management

Managing your calendar entries properly keeps your schedule organized and easy for your audience to read. Taking control of your dashboard workflows allows you to update your schedule quickly without building every new activity from scratch. When you reuse structure and clear out old information, you maintain a fast, clean website that your visitors can rely on for current updates.

This collection provides straightforward guides to help you streamline your daily calendar tasks and maintain your listings. You will learn how to duplicate existing events to save setup time and how to handle past dates so they do not clutter your active views. Use these resources to build an efficient administrative routine and keep your event pages fresh and relevant.


The Events Calendar Event Management articles

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Explore the following guides to learn how to duplicate listings and handle older entries on your calendar.

  • Customizing the Event Admin

    The Events Calendar adds various touches to the WordPress admin — menus, editor defaults, notices, and list views. You may want to adjust those touches to better fit how you work. This article collects admin-side customizations for The Events Calendar. Hiding Admin UI Elements The two customizations in this section are defined as constants in…

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  • Deleting Events from the Calendar

    There are several ways to remove events from your WordPress site, depending on whether you want to delete a batch of events right now or set up automatic cleanup for old events over time. This article covers all of them: manual bulk deletion tools, the built-in automatic trashing feature, and a few customizations for the…

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  • How to Duplicate Events

    Events Calendar Pro allows you to duplicate any event from the WordPress dashboard, creating an exact copy you can then modify before publishing. This is useful when you run similar recurring events that don’t use the built-in recurrence feature, or when you want to reuse an event’s details as a starting point for a new…

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  • How to Filter and Sort Events in the WordPress Admin

    A popular feature request we hear from the community is to expand the ways that Events posts can be sorted and filtered from the WordPress dashboard. This is so popular in fact that we created a separate plugin called Advanced Post Manager (APM) a while back and started shipping it with Events Calendar Pro. We even open-sourced…

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  • Sharing and Migrating Events Between Calendars

    This article covers two related but distinct scenarios: permanently migrating events from one site to another, and setting up an ongoing live feed so one site continuously receives events from another. Migrating Events to Another Site (One-Time) If you want to move events from one WordPress site to another as a one-time operation, there are…

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  • Timezones and Daylight Saving Time with The Events Calendar

    The Events Calendar provides simple but robust timezone capabilities, allowing you to have events in many different timezones. Use this article to get familiar with all of the controls available to you, and to learn what kinds of output to expect from certain timezone configurations. WordPress Timezones There are two primary types of time zone…

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  • Troubleshooting the Events Admin

    Compressed Event Columns in the Event Admin List We frequently receive inquiries from customers regarding events displaying strangely in the backend, under the Events section. Text appears vertically, making it challenging to read and access information and links in the table. This happens when plugins add additional columns to our default view. Because WordPress tries…

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  • Working with Past Events

    When using The Events Calendar, you’ll inevitably accrue several past events. Depending on the needs of your website, you may decide to display these past events for your users to see. The Events Calendar is set up to focus on current and upcoming events, and by default this is what the main calendar page will…

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