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January 9, 2014 at 4:15 pm

Hi Tamara,

What you can do is set the class start and end date for the first monday. Then duplicate that event (or use the Recurring events manager) to make more Monday classes for each time the class meets. The subsequent classes can be set to use the first monday’s event for registration. Here is a diagram that shows how to set this up using the recurring event manager:

Then:

Then:

January 10, 2014 at 8:13 am

For the first question, it appears you do not have the Recurring Events Manager Add-on installed. It is this that gives the options within the red box.

Refer to your other thread for instructions on installing https://eventespresso.com/topic/problem-with-reoccurring-events/#post-73446

next question – The second part of the instructions. (after “then”)- Is that when making the second event as part of the series? Or when would I do that?

When you create the events you’ll create the recurring series. Afterwards you can edit either just the single event you are working on, all events in the series, or future events from (& including) the current event your are editing.

So the first picture is from event 1, setting all the events in the series to use event ones registration url, the second picture is from event 1 once more, removing the registration url (event 1 already uses its own registration url), setting the event to display the registration form and updating just that single event (the red box).

It may not make sense currently, but once you’ve spent some time to see how the Recurring Events Manager (REM) works, you’ll understand more 🙂

January 10, 2014 at 6:43 pm

Hi Tamara,

You mean the event list page, right? Are you directing people to view the list of events and the calendar too?

January 13, 2014 at 10:57 am

Hi Tamara,

You can make make the event list page only display the first event from a series with a bit of template hacking (this does require modifying a few PHP files).

First, you’ll need a function to define your first event in a series. Here’s something you can add to your custom file add-on’s custom_functions.php file or in a custom snippet plugin

// function to help display only the first event in a recurring event series
function get_recurrence_info( $recurrence_id = FALSE )
{
    $recurrence_info = '';
    if ( $recurrence_id )
    {
        global $wpdb;
        $r = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT * FROM ' . EVENT_ESPRESSO_RECURRENCE_TABLE . ' WHERE recurrence_id="'.$recurrence_id.'"');
        if ($wpdb->num_rows > 0)
                $recurrence_info = $r[0];
    }
    return $recurrence_info;
}

then you can open your wp-content\uploads\espresso\templates\event_list.php file, and locate the event_espresso_get_event_details function (around line 29 in my file) and just after the line 275 where it says:

foreach ($events as $event) {

You add:

$r = get_recurrence_info( $event->recurrence_id );
if ( $event->recurrence_id == 0 || $r->recurrence_start_date == $event->start_date ) {

and then add the closing curly brace at the end of the function

}

This will allow all non-recurring events to be displayed as well as the first event from a series of recurring events.

January 13, 2014 at 2:08 pm

Hi Tamara,

The code I posted was for the event list, not the calendar.