Title: Clarify recurrence-interval
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Clarify recurrence-interval

 *  Resolved [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * (@daedalon)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clarify-recurrence-interval/)
 * Recurrence interval currently reads like this:
 * > This event repeats [Monthly] every [1 ] month on the [first ] [Wed] of each
   > month
 * We have gotten complaints of this being confusing, and we have to agree, both
   on readability and clarity. It also leads to strikingly impossible statements:“
   every [2 ] month … of each month”. Here’s my suggestion:
 * > This event repeats [Monthly] on the [first ] [Wed] of [each] month
 * Rationale and benefits:
 * 1. More human-readable.
    2. No more errors with month vs. months, for which every
   language has their own rules. 3. “Every [ ] day/week/month/year” does not need
   an unlimited amount of choices. In the spirit of not creating unnecessary options
   in the UI I would start with three options, “each”, “every second” and “every
   third”, and add more only if feedback warrants it. 4. PHP, CSS, HTML, translations
   and JS become easier to maintain. I’ve had to study the current solution thoroughly
   in order to make customizations and it’s particularly tricky.
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 *  [agelonwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelonwl/)
 * (@angelonwl)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clarify-recurrence-interval/#post-3679384)
 * thanks, maybe [@marcus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcus/) does have
   better idea about this issue.
 *  Plugin Author [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/)
 * (@netweblogic)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clarify-recurrence-interval/#post-3679390)
 * i don’t agree with this, because it makes less sense to the majority I think.
   I’d say this needs to be a custom template on your side, unless others agree 
   with this.
 * plus,
 * This event repeats [dakly] of [x] days
 * makes no sense, the above works for everything.
 *  Thread Starter [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * (@daedalon)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clarify-recurrence-interval/#post-3679395)
 * I must have expressed the proposed format unclearly. “of [x] days” is not part
   of my idea at all. These are:
 * > This event repeats [Daily] **[every] day**
   > This event repeats [Weekly] on [ ] Mon [ ] Tue [ ] Wed [ ] Thu [ ] Fri [ ] 
   > Sat [ ] Sun **[every second] week**
   > This event repeats [Monthly] on the [second] [Wed] **of [every third] month**
 *  Thread Starter [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * (@daedalon)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clarify-recurrence-interval/#post-3679396)
 * One of the many reasons to do it like this is the same as why you have done the
   monthly recurrence as “[first|second|third|fourth|last]” instead of “[1 ].”: 
   it’s much more clear and readable this way. The proposed change is to use this
   way with all recurrence intervals instead of just a part of the monthly.
 *  Plugin Author [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/)
 * (@netweblogic)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clarify-recurrence-interval/#post-3679419)
 * I still don’t agree, to me it makes more sense the way it is, plus your way is
   more complicated code-wise to get right. Looking at other calendars the repeat
   every x months/days etc. is done this way.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clarify-recurrence-interval/#post-3679419)
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