Why are there 2 sections for start and end date/time?

  • I just inherited the management of a WP site for volunteer hours.

    I’m trying to figure out if someone dove into code in the past and broke some functionality. There doesn’t seem to be a way to correctly show recurring events?

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    The recurring event info is on the left, but on the right, you see another Start & End Date/Time section.

    The events show up on the calendar each week on the day they are supposed to, but when you click for details that date on the right shows up at the top of each listing?

    If I click on the event on the Calendar on Friday, November 16 I see this:

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    If I change that date on the right to November 16th, then they ALL show November 16 . . .

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  • guillermovargasquisoboni

    (@guillermovargasquisoboni)

    Hello W411,

    I have been using eo specially for long events, and I recently started creating some one day/specific time events. I think that the difference between them can be useful to answer your question.

    – Long time events have start date and end date. A good example is holidays, that this year start on 20 december and finish on 6 january.
    – Recurring events are more like one day events, in which you can program a start time and end time. A good example is time to go to gym. Let’s say that you decide to go to the gym on next friday at 20 o’clock, and then you decide that you will go all fridays at the same time. Only then you have a recurring event. A recurring event is an event that originally takes place one day at one time but that you can also repeat in some frequency.

    If you want to create a long period of recurrence for your recurring events, you must preserve the difference between “long time events” and “one day recurring event”, so you must use the appropriate case for “recurring events” that is situated below the recurrence days, and that is entitled “Until”. Automatically, wordpress will assume that the original “one day date” is the begin of the period of recurrence, and the end will be the date registered on the case “until”. So let’s say that you decide to go the gym only during holidays, three days by week. So yo create a one time event on 20 december, start time being 20 o’clock, end time is 22 o’clock. You can establish a frequency (monday, wednesday and saturday), and a recurrence period until 6 january. Everything is done on the same section.

    You also must consider that the cases situated at the right are specifically destinated to “long time events”. The difference is clear to me: during your holidays, when you are not at the gym, you are still on holidays… The better for you is to create two different events in your event-organiser agenda: 1. for holidays and the other for gym time. “Long time events” and “one day at specific time recurring events” should be correctly differentiated…

    Thread Starter Brian – TGL

    (@w411)

    Is there somewhere to see an example of how to add a recurring event, I just tried again to add a recurring event for January and when I click on the event it takes me to a page with today’s date in it.

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