[Plugin: Events Manager] Database bloated w/ duplicate locations

doesn’t normally happen. might they be in the trash?

Yes, I posted about this same issue within the last 2 weeks. Ours grew to over 127,000 “pending” records, when we only had a little over 2,000 actual events in the database.

Never did find a solution or the cause.

Upon further investigation we had about 40.000 event records, accounting for almost 70mb worth of events and event attributes. Looking at the modification dates I can see close to 50 events being duplicated…per second (on data entry). We have a total of 27 events.

I have now uninstalled the plugin and let it clean out the database. This took minutes (it had to remove quite a bit) and 2 retries (process stalled midway) but eventually it succeeded.

We now have to resort to singling out unique events in the sql-dump/xml we took beforehand and write off 8 hours of investigation on a project. And look for an alternative event calendar. No premium version for us, thanks.

well, if you do still want to figure out why… you could try posting your theme and/or plugins and see what the link is. this is rare

Theme is custom built. We could try and clone the site with the original bloated database, so you can have a look. Please let me know. Thanks.

if you could send some admin login info and install the plugin adminer so I can see the db I’d be interested to see the issue.

as I said this is pretty rare and chances are I’d need to reproduce a situation where the events duplicate to be able to figure out why and (if it’s even a bug in EM) fix it.

Ok Marcus, I have a setup for you to test. How can I reach you?

send me the info here and pls add a link to this forum so we know it’s you – https://wp-events-plugin.com/contact-us/

Sent. Have a look; 20 active (draft) events, on unfiltering in the backend it appears as 604 entries.