How to Create Recurring Events in WordPress (Step-by-Step Guide)

Many events do not happen just once. Things like weekly classes, monthly meetups, training sessions, or regular webinars often repeat on a schedule. If you create every event manually in WordPress, it quickly becomes time-consuming and difficult to manage.

The smart way? Recurring events. Instead of adding the same event again and again, you can set a rule that repeats it automatically. For example, you can schedule an event to run every Monday, on the first day of each month, or once every year.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to create recurring events in WordPress step by step. We’ll use the Eventin plugin, which allows you to schedule repeated events, manage attendees, and keep your event calendar organized from one dashboard.

What Is a Recurring Event in WordPress?

A recurring event in WordPress is an event that repeats automatically on a schedule instead of being created again and again manually. Instead of doing the grunt work every single time, you can set up the same patterns on every occasion and manage recurring events efficiently by saving huge amounts of time.

You can set regular schedules, weekly or monthly meetings, regular workshops, annual conferences, etc., on a loop with recurring events. Not just a simple recurring event, you can use 3 sub-types of recurring events in Eventin: Parent Event, Detach Event, and Recurrence Event.

Parent event: This is the main event you will create. This is the common ground for the main event to take place, and you can create individual recurring events from parent events.

Detach event: Detach event is an event you can remove from the parent event. After you remove from the parent, the detach event will solely work as an independent event, and no changes made to the parent will affect the detach event. You can’t attach the detached event back to your parents again.

Recurrence event: It’s the individual event you can generate from your parent event without detaching from it. Any changes you make to the parent event will surely affect the recurrence event.

These features are game-changers when it comes to saving time on events and focusing on work that matters. 

How to set up recurring events in WordPress

Creating recurring events in WordPress is pretty easy, even though it depends on the ease of access and user-friendliness of the plugin that offers it. With the Eventin event management plugin, you will find easy steps to create recurring events within just a few clicks.

Even better, Eventin now includes an AI-powered event creation, perfect if you’re setting up recurring events regularly.

Let me show you how-

Step 1: Install and activate Eventin

First off, be sure to download and install the Eventin WordPress event plugin on your WordPress dashboard. Once you’re done, install the WordPress plugin to set up the next step for recurring events. 

You don’t need a PRO version of Eventin to set up recurring events. Yaay!

Step 2: Create a new event

Now go to the Event section on your dashboard and select ‘Add New’ to create a new event. Now fill in the event details, add a title, write a description, put the location and date, and create your event. 

You can speed up this with its “Create an event with AI“ option. This lets you generate event titles, descriptions, and details in seconds.

Step 3: Enable recurring events

Once you’ve created a new event on the WordPress dashboard, scroll a bit further down to Eventin settings, and you will see the ‘recurring events’ option. Click on the option, and you will have a new set of options to set up the recurring event. 

Step 4: Choose recurring event settings and recurrence interval

Now it’s time to set up how your recurring event will take place. Once you’ve toggled on the recurring event, you can set up the recurrence.

First, select whether you want your meetings/webinars/sessions/events/ on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

Once you’ve selected the daily or monthly repeat basis, you can set up the recurrence interval, which means an interval between two recurring events taking place. 

So, select the recurrence interval that best matches your event. Whether you want a daily, weekly, or monthly recurring event, Eventin offers you all of it with more easy-to-use features. 

Step 5: Set the end date of the recurring event

Once you’re done with the hard part, you can select when your recurring events will end. You can select a particular date or end the recurring event after a certain number of intervals. Eventin offers you both. 

Step 6: Save and publish!

Now, as for the final step, save the new event and hit ‘Publish’!

There you go, a whole new WordPress event with recurring events that fit your needs. Your visitors can view the event details on the website, making it easy for them to plan and attend an event that suits their schedules. 

Common troubleshooting for recurring events

While setting up recurring events, you might (not sure if this will happen) face some hiccups.

Here are a few Troubleshooting tips to help you get a hassle-free experience: 

• Check the dates: Check if the starting date and the end date are good to set up the recurring events in between.
• Check the parent event and detach event: If you detach an event from a parent event, make sure to check if that detached event has recurring events that are ongoing. It’s important to note that any changes you make to the detach event will not affect the parent event.
• Update Eventin: Make sure to update the Eventin plugin to access the latest features, new fixes, and tweaks on recurring event features.
• Check if the theme is compatible: if you see any issues, make sure to check the theme you’re using because some themes may conflict with WordPress event plugins. For any situation, switch to a default WordPress theme if you see any issue, but everything else is working well. 

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Wrapping up

Recurring events are the golden ticket to max revenue flow on your WordPress events, and creating Recurring Events in WordPress is now a lot easier with Eventin.

With the help of this robust WordPress events plugin, event organizers can simplify plans and create a recurring event schedule that works well with just a few clicks. So, take your event management to a new height and enjoy creating recurring events that sell. Happy Planning!