The Recurring Events add-on allows you to manage your recurring events automatically. Just create your event once, and the rest of the events in the series will be created automatically, with the option to customize dates and occurrences in each one in the series. 

Installing The Plugin

The installation process is the same for all the add-ons offered by WP Event Manager. They can be installed both automatically and manually.

1. Automatic Installation: You can install the plugin from the backend of your WordPress. Click here to see how you can install the plugin automatically.
   
2. Manual Installation: You can also install the plugin manually using SFTP or FTP tools. Click here to see how you can install the plugin manually.

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How Recurring Event Function Works?

Recurring events can be repeated on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. Moreover, adding custom dates and weeks is also possible with this.

There are five types of event recurrences:

1. Don’t Repeat: Select the “Don’t Repeat” option from the event recurrence dropdown if your event is regular(not recurring).
2. Repeat Daily: The Repeat Daily option signifies that an event will be repeated everyday till the time you want. The best part is you do not have to update the event every day, as the process is automatic. All you have to do is to specify the number of days during which you want the event to be repeated.
   

• Event Recurrence: Select the Daily option from the dropdown.
• Repeat Every: Choose the number of day(s) you want between each occurrence of the event.
• Repeat Until: Choose the date till you want to repeat the event.
  
• Example: Let's say the original event start date is December 1, 2020. You want this event to repeat daily till December 15. To set this event with the Recurring Events plugin, here are the steps you need to take:
  
• Repeat Occurrence: Repeat daily.
  
• Repeat Every: Enter an integer here to tell the system that you want the event to recur every X days (1 means every day, 2 means every 2 days, and so on…). For example, if you enter 2 into this parameter, then the event will recur every 2 days; if the event starts on Monday, it will recur on Wednesday, Friday, Sunday…
  
• Repeat Until: Mention the end date till which the event will recur. For example, if you want to repeat it until 15 December, mention 16 December 2020 in the “repeat until” section.
  
1. Repeat Weekly: Select the “Weekly” option from the event recurrence dropdown if your event is going to occur weekly. Every week, it will automatically relist events with the next week’s date.
   

• Event Recurrence: Select the Weekly option from the dropdown.
• Repeat Every: Choose the number of week(s) you want between each occurrence of the event.
• Repeat Until: Choose the date till you want to repeat the event.
• Day Name: Select the weekday for occurrence.
  
• Example: Let's say the original event start date is December 1, 2020. You want this event to repeat Weekly, every Saturday until 2nd January 2021, so the following is how you set the settings.
  
• Repeat Occurrence– Repeat Weekly.
• Repeat Every– Enter an integer number here to tell the system that you want the event to recur every X weeks (1 means every 1 week, 2 means every 2 weeks, and so on…). For example, if you enter 1 into this parameter, then the event will recur every 1 week.
• Day Name: Select Saturday here.
• Repeat until: Mention the end date till which the event will recur. For example, if you want the event to recur till 2nd Jan, which is Saturday, you have to mention the date 3rd Jan in the “repeat until” section.
2. Repeat Monthly: Select the “Monthly” option from the event recurrence dropdown if your event is going to occur monthly. The organizer can select an event repeating type as monthly. So, the event will be repeated every month, and the organizer doesn’t need to post the same event manually every month.
   

• Event Recurrence: Select the Monthly option from the dropdown.
• Repeat Every: Choose the number of month(s) you want between each occurrence of the event.
• On the: Here, you have to choose between the Same Day or Specific Day options.

  (a) Day Number: Insert the day number (For ex: First day of the month, second day of the month, etc.)
  (b) Day Name: Select the weekday for occurrence.

• Repeat Until: Choose the date till you want to repeat the event.
3. Repeat Yearly: Select the “Yearly” option from the event recurrence dropdown if you want to post a yearly event.
   

• Event Recurrence: Select the Yearly option from the dropdown.
• Repeat Every: Choose the number of year(s) you want between each occurrence of the event.
• Repeat Until: Choose the date till you want to repeat the event.

Generate recurring events (Duplicate events from Admin panel)

It is easy to duplicate events from the admin panel of WP Event Manager.

Here are the steps that you need to take to do that:

1. Go to wp-admin>>Events Manager>>Recurring events. 
2. You will be able to see the entire list of events. 
   

1. Each event carries a duplicate icon, which you can click to easily generate duplicate events. 
   

1. Along with the duplicate icon, you will also find the view and delete icons. The view icon offers the details of duplicated or child events, and the delete icon helps you delete duplicated events.

It is to be noted that the duplicate icon can not be visible after the parent event expires.

Note: It is to be mentioned that users can not delete a parent event from the “Recurring Event List” page. Only newly created duplicated events can be deleted from this page. A parent event can only be deleted from the Event Listing page.

List of the recurring events of a parent event

If the admin wants to see the list of the recurring events of a particular parent event,

1. Follow the path: WP-Admin >> Event Manager >> All Events.
   
2. Type the parent event name that has recurring events in the search bar.
3. Get the list of all the recurring events related to a parent event you have entered in the search box.
   

Recurring events settings

To access the settings section of the recurring events plugin, here are the steps you need to take:

1. Go to wp-admin.
   
2. Click on Events Manager. 
   
3. Click on the Settings option.
   
4. Select the Event Recurring Tab.
   

Here you can find the option to enable or disable duplicate recurring events. If you enable this option, each recurring event will create duplicate events or else cron will schedule and update the current event after an event ends. 

There is another option named “Delete Data on Uninstall” that can also be found here. If you enable this option, then it will delete all your recurring events data when you uninstall the plugin. It is to be noted that once deleted, the data can not be retrieved. 

In addition to that, if you have installed the Sell Tickets add-on, then you will get another option which enables you to duplicate your recurring event ticket.

Setting Custom Dates for Recurring Events

1. Go to wp-admin.
   
2. Click on Events Manager. 
   
3. Click on the “Add event” option.

1. Choose the Recurring option.
   

1. Select the “Custom date” option from the Event recurrence dropdown menu. 
   

1. You will see the Custom date option here, in which you need to add your preferred date. To add multiple dates for repetition, click on “Add another date”.
   

1. Repeat every: You need to mention how many times you want the event to recur in a week. 

1. Repeat until: Mention the last day of event recurrence here. 

1. Custom weeks: Select the day or days in a week on which you want your events to be repeated.
   

How to create recurring events from the frontend

To create recurring events from the frontend, here are the steps you need to take: 

1. Go to the frontend event dashboard. 
   
2. Find the specific event that you want to recur. 
   
3. Click on the event details icon.
   

Event occurrences in Recurring events can be deleted as per your convenience. 

Click on the “Delete occurrence” option to delete all your scheduled recurring events.