Recurring Events Acting Strangely

  • Curtiss Grymala

    (@cgrymala)


    1 day, 5 hours ago

    Recently (I think starting with v3.17.5), editing recurring events has stopped working correctly. If I remove an instance of a recurring event, it pops up a notice saying that instance was removed, but when I update the post and go back to it, the deleted instance is back again.

    Further, if I change the recurrence pattern (for instance, if I change it from every week (1 weekly) to every other week (2 weekly), it saves fine. Then, when I go to remove a single instance and save the post, it sets the recurrence back to every week, and all of the dates are back again.

    I did just update to v3.17.6 to make sure that didn’t fix the issue, but it did not.

    It does seem to work if I just delete the instance of the event and don’t hit the “Update” button or make other changes to the event, though. It’s almost as though there’s some residual information associated with the post that overwrites data when the post itself is saved again.

    Thanks for all you do for the WordPress community, including your work on this plugin. It is truly appreciated.

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  • Plugin Author Joe Dolson

    (@joedolson)

    1 day, 5 hours ago

    I made a change in 3.7.14 that fixed a bug where all-day event instances were regenerated when the event was updated, so this seems plausibly related.

    Does the same thing happen if you delete the instance, then fully leave the editor, come back, and then make an update? (That’s a question mostly to test whether there’s residual data not updated immediately after a save, or if it’s persistent.)

    Verifying when event instances need to be re-generated is one of the trickier areas, and it *is* possible there could be something residual, as that calculation is based on testing the difference between the stored event date/time data and the new event date/time data.

    Thread Starter Curtiss Grymala

    (@cgrymala)

    13 hours, 26 minutes ago

    Thanks for the response.

    I just tested, and, yes, even if I edit the Event at a completely separate time (I deleted the instance yesterday, and came back today after your response to update the description of the event), it resets both the Repetition Pattern and the Scheduled Dates.

    I should also note that, when I open the Event in the editor, it shows an admin notice above the title field telling me that “Some dates in this event have been deleted. Changing the date or repetition pattern will reset its scheduled dates.”

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