How to Configure Recurring Events

The ability to create recurring events in Pie Calendar Pro is easy and flexible.

When you edit a post with Pie Calendar Pro installed, you'll see an additional meta box called Event Recurrence.

Adding Rules

To make an event recur, click + Add Rule to add a new rule.

There are four rule types:

• Recurrence Rule: Set an interval, frequency, specify weekday, monthly instance, start datetime and stop date.
• Single Recurrence: Set a day and optionally, a time, for this event to recur once.
• Blackout Rule: Same as Recurrence Rule, except event instances will be removed from the calendar when they match a Blackout Rule. For example, an event set up to repeat daily, but with a weekly Blackout Rule with Saturday and Sunday selected, would have events on the calendar only Monday - Friday, no weekends.
• Blackout Date/Range: Same as Single Recurrence, but for blackouts. Allows ranges via the Start option.

Recurring Event Settings

The most common rule type is Recurrence Rule, which allows you to establish rules by which the event will recur.

The Interval and Frequency controls allow you to designate how often the event recurs, e.g. every 1 day, every 1 week, every 3 months, or every 2 years.

For rules with a weekly frequency, you'll also be able to choose which specific weekdays the event recurs on via the REPEAT ON control, e.g. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

For rules with a monthly frequency, you'll also be able to choose which instance of the event or rule's start date the event should recur on via the REPEAT ON, e.g. 1st Monday, 3rd Monday, last Monday, etc.

Monthly rules also have a simpler toggle called Same Weekday & Position, which accomplishes the same as the REPEAT ON option but uses the weekday and instance of the event or rule start date instead.

Do not combine Same Weekday & Position and REPEAT ON for monthly rules, as the interaction between the two options can be confusing.

You can designate a start date for the rule via Starts On. This allows you to choose a date on which the recurrence rule begins taking effect, and optionally, a new time for events created from this rule.

The Stops On control allows you to designate a date at which events from this rule will no longer be created and displayed on the calendar.

As you can see, the recurring event options available in Pie Calendar Pro give you a lot of flexibility to create events that repeat in the way you need them to.

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