WP Event Manager: How to Bulk Edit Events in a Spreadsheet

Editing multiple events in WP Event Manager can be a daunting task if done manually. If you need to update details like event titles, event descriptions, event dates, or event banners, going through each event one by one will take forever. Fortunately, there’s an easier way to bulk edit events using a spreadsheet.

Related: How to export and import events

Manually editing events in WordPress means opening each event, making changes, and saving them one by one. This process is slow, repetitive, and frustrating. If you manage a lot of events, it can take hours of tedious work, reducing your productivity.

With WP Sheet Editor – Post Types, you can quickly and easily manage all your events in a spreadsheet. The plugin allows you to make changes in bulk, saving you time and effort. You can generate spreadsheets for posts, pages, and custom post types like events.

Follow the steps below to bulk edit WP Event Manager events using WP Sheet Editor.

Install WP Sheet Editor – Post Types

After completing the payment process, follow these steps to install and activate the plugin:

1. Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin.
2. Click on Upload plugin.
3. Click on Choose file.
4. Locate the file on your computer.
5. Click on Install now.
6. Click on Activate plugin.
7. Enter your license and click on Activate License.

Open the Events Spreadsheet

Once the plugin is activated, you can start viewing and managing your WP Event Manager events in the spreadsheet.

Note: If you need to generate the spreadsheet for events, follow these steps:

1. Go to WP Sheet Editor > Setup spreadsheet.
2. Tick the Events post type and click on Save.
3. Enable or disable the columns you want and click on Save.
4. Start using the spreadsheet.

Once you have generated the spreadsheet, you can go to WP Sheet Editor > Edit Events to open the spreadsheet.

You will see all your events displayed in an intuitive spreadsheet. This makes it easy to manage everything in one place, without the hassle of opening individual events.

How to edit events using the spreadsheet

You can use the spreadsheet to edit any field of your events. Every column works according to the type of field. For example, you can edit event titles as text fields, event descriptions using the text editor, event banners uploading the images directly in the spreadsheet, event categories, tags, and locations as taxonomy fields, etc.

You can edit any of these fields in the spreadsheet:

• Title
• Content (description)
• Status
• Event categories
• Event tags
• Event cancelled
• Event health guidelines
• Event banner
• Country
• Start Date
• End date
• Location
• Registration deadline
• Organizer
• Etc.

After making all the changes, click on Save to apply your edits.

Advanced search for events

WP Sheet Editor allows you to search for events using any field as a search filter. For example, you can search for events containing a specific keyword in the title, events missing banner, events by category, tag, location, country, start/end date, etc. You can combine these search terms to make advanced searches.

Just open the Search tool in the spreadsheet.

In this example, we will search for events by category, start time, and country.

To do this, select the following values in the Search tool:

• Event categories: Enter the event category here.
• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox.
  • Field: Event start time
  • Operator: =
  • Value: Enter the start time using this format: HH:MM:SS
• Click on Add New to add a new advanced filter.
  • Field: Event Country
  • Operator: =
  • Value: Enter the country code here. US, for example.
• Click on Run search.

Note: This is just an example to show how the Search tool works; you decide which fields you want to use as search filters.

Once you run the search, all the events matching the selected search terms will be displayed in the spreadsheet; you can see which search filters are active above the spreadsheet.

How to bulk edit events

Using the Bulk Edit tool, you can bulk edit any field on hundreds of events at once. For example, you can bulk edit event descriptions, event status, categories, tags, dates, times, locations, countries, etc. You can bulk edit all events, only selected events, or events filtered by specific criteria.

In this example, we will edit all the events we filtered in the previous search.

After selecting the events to edit, open the Bulk Edit tool.

Select the following values in the Bulk Edit tool:

• Select the rows that you want to update: Edit all the rows from my current search (including non-visible rows)
• What field do you want to edit: We will bulk edit the “Enable Health Guideline” field.
• Select type of edit: Set value
• Replace existing value with this value: In this example, we will enable the health guidelines in bulk, so we need to check this checkbox.
• Click on Execute Now.

With WP Sheet Editor, you can bulk edit events from the WP Event Manager plugin using an intuitive spreadsheet. Managing events in bulk is easier than ever. You can use the spreadsheet interface, advanced search, and bulk editing features to save time and effort.