Unique Information for Reoccurring events.

Hi James,

The problem is that events are a single post (with dates attached). This was a design decision early on in developing EO. A work-around is to ‘break’ dates from a recurring event.

I did entertain the idea of appending a date query variable as in the example you gave to allow the event page to show different information for a different dates. With a bit of custom code this would be possible.

The trouble starts when you want events to link a specific occurrence. The function get_permalink() (which allows you to filter, and so append the date) only passes the post ID, so you have no idea for *which* occurrence you want to link to. But this may be fine if you want a /events/event/weekly-meeting/ page for the event, and then create a list of custom links pointing to the same page but with the date appended.

In short – it can be work for a specific use case, but is otherwise messy. So its not something I can see going into EO at the moment.

(The other problem being, how do you allow content on a date-specific basis while keeping the UI clean – more and more it looks like creating a separate post for each event – which you can do by breaking events).