Title: No import function?
Last modified: May 17, 2023

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# No import function?

 *  Resolved [Das Capitolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/das-capitolin/)
 * (@das-capitolin)
 * [2 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-import-function/)
 * It seems obvious, since there is literally zero reference to any import feature
   in this plugin, but it’s worth asking: does an import function (ICS or CSV) exist
   in ICS Calendar?

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 *  Plugin Author [Room 34 Creative Services, LLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34/)
 * (@room34)
 * [2 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-import-function/#post-16746331)
 * Can you explain more of what you’re looking for in terms of an import function?
   The purpose of ICS Calendar is to render the data from an external calendar feed;
   it doesn’t save or store the calendar data in the WordPress database (other than
   temporary caching for performance), because that’s antithetical to what it’s 
   about, which is continuing to manage the editing of the calendar data in an external
   source (e.g. Google Calendar) but displaying up-to-date info from the calendar
   in a WordPress site.
 * What would you be looking to do with the imported data? Once it was imported,
   it would no longer be in sync with the original source. I can see the value of
   such a tool, but it’s not what ICS Calendar is for. (For example, The Events 
   Calendar is a good plugin for managing calendar data _within_ WordPress, but 
   it has its own ways of importing data from external calendars.) Again though,
   the key difference is that once data is imported, e.g. into a Custom Post Type,
   it’s now a separate copy of that data and is no longer in sync with an external
   source.
 *  Thread Starter [Das Capitolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/das-capitolin/)
 * (@das-capitolin)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-import-function/#post-16769678)
 * My goal is to import the data from a personal Google calendar, and then allow
   users to manage the calendar exclusively from WordPress.
 *  Plugin Author [Room 34 Creative Services, LLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34/)
 * (@room34)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-import-function/#post-16771430)
 * OK, thanks. That’s kind of the reverse of the purpose of this plugin, which is
   to allow users to continue to maintain calendars _outside_ of WordPress, while
   keeping the calendar info _displayed_ in WordPress in sync with that external
   source.
 * You may want to look at the [Event Aggregator](https://theeventscalendar.com/products/event-aggregator/)
   add-on for The Events Calendar. (I am not affiliated with The Events Calendar.)
 *  Thread Starter [Das Capitolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/das-capitolin/)
 * (@das-capitolin)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-import-function/#post-16771473)
 * The cost for Event Aggregator is what drove me to look for alternatives. They’ve
   got a monopoly on the import of calendar data, and could use some competition.
 *  Plugin Author [Room 34 Creative Services, LLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34/)
 * (@room34)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-import-function/#post-16771479)
 * Well… it is an interesting idea, and I do have an internal calendar data mechanism(
   custom post type, basically) on the development roadmap for a future version.
   But just for the record, any development this involved is going into the paid
   version of ICS Calendar Pro, not the free version. (Also I don’t have a timeline
   set for this particular feature.)

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 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [import csv](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import-csv/)

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 * Last reply from: [Room 34 Creative Services, LLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-import-function/#post-16771479)
 * Status: resolved