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What WP Event Manager stores about an event
WP Event Manager represents events using WordPress custom post types, custom taxonomies, and metadata. Its Event API documentation describes more than a title and description: event identity and content, status, category/type/tag IDs, an image URL, metadata, and registration and ticket-sale details.
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That API field list is an inventory guide, not a literal map of every row or meta key in your installation. The actual database representation can vary with configuration, add-ons, and custom development. Inspect the site itself before designing an import.
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Event records and custom fields
Record each event’s ID, name, slug, permalink, creation and modification dates, status, featured flag, description, image reference, and metadata. Include custom-field keys as well as values: the export documentation lets administrators include all custom event field key/value pairs or select particular fields. Identify fields that are required, repeated, private, or stored in a special format; a destination may need explicit field definitions and transformation rules.
Taxonomies and relationships
Categories and event types—and tags if the Event Tags add-on is active—are represented through IDs and relationships. A label-only transfer can lose which event belonged to which term. Export or otherwise inspect the terms and assignments, then map them to the destination’s categories or tags.
Images, organizers, venues, registrations, and tickets
Establish how event image references resolve to media on the current site and how those files will be available after migration. The vendor’s export guidance covers events, organizers, and venues, but an event-only export should not be treated as a complete organizer or venue directory or as proof that all associations will be restored.
The API schema also includes registration and ticket-sale details. If the site uses registrations, ticketing, or related premium extensions, separately verify what can be exported and imported: attendee records, order or payment references, ticket status, check-in state, and consent data may require their own handling. The general event export documentation does not guarantee coverage of every add-on’s transactional records.
What an export can—and cannot—do
WP Event Manager documents CSV export through its settings, with a choice between all custom event fields and a selected subset. Its frontend download documentation also describes CSV, XML, and XLS options for events, organizers, and venues. See the vendor’s export documentation for the available controls.
Treat an export as migration input, not as a finished replacement site. It does not establish that the destination can represent every field or relationship, recreate plugin-specific page behavior, or import registration and ticket transactions. Preserve the original files, document column names and date/time formats, and test a representative sample before exporting and importing the full dataset.
Inventory settings, integrations, and front-end dependencies
Settings and connected services
Review the installed plugin’s settings, including organizer and venue options, any Google Maps API key, and sender identity. The settings documentation identifies these kinds of options; do not assume they are part of an event CSV. Record integrations that read event data or send notifications, and plan how to transfer credentials and configuration securely.
Templates, URLs, and site features
WP Event Manager documents plugin-specific single-event, archive, and taxonomy templates, including single-event_listing.php and archive-event_listing.php. Its template documentation shows why a successful content import does not guarantee that existing pages still render as expected.
Search theme files, page content, blocks, shortcodes, widgets, and custom code for references to the plugin, the event_listing post type, and event metadata. Make a plan for single-event URLs, archives, taxonomy pages, search and filtering, submission and editing forms, and redirects. After migration, test structured metadata and search visibility as well as what visitors see.
A safer migration sequence
- Back up and rehearse. Take a database and files backup, verify that it can be restored, and make a staging copy. Do not experiment on the only production copy.
- Export and document. In Event Manager → Settings → Export, choose all custom-field key/value data or only the fields you need. Export a representative sample first, then the full data. Retain the originals and record encoding, field names, and date/time formats.
- Map fields and features. Build a source-to-destination mapping for event content, status, dates and time zone, images, taxonomy terms, custom fields, organizer/venue relationships, and slugs. Confirm separately how registrations, tickets, and recurring events—if used—will be represented. These are checks to perform with the chosen destination, not assumptions about its capabilities.
- Import to staging and reconcile. Compare source and destination counts and inspect samples across published, draft, and expired events. Check dates, taxonomy assignments, custom fields, images, organizer and venue links, and any registrations or ticket records that must be retained. Test duplicate handling and repeat the import as needed before cutover.
- Rebuild and test behavior. Replace plugin-dependent templates, shortcodes, and front-end workflows. Re-save or flush permalinks where appropriate. Test listing and search, individual event pages, submission and editing, notifications, and redirects.
- Cut over only after acceptance checks. Keep the old plugin and a verified backup available until the destination passes the checks that matter to your site and its users.
What can break after the switch
- Event pages and archives: the old post type and templates may no longer serve existing URLs or views after the plugin is removed. Recreate the relevant rendering and URL structure in the replacement, or redirect old URLs deliberately.
- Taxonomy filters: categories, types, and optional tags need term and assignment mapping; carrying labels without relationships can leave filters incomplete.
- Custom-field layouts and forms: moving a value does not create the destination field definition or restore layouts, forms, and filters that depend on the old meta key.
- Organizer and venue pages: those records and their links to events need to be transferred and checked; an event-only export may not recreate the directory or associations.
- Ticketing, registration, and integrations: these features may have separate records and workflows. Verify their export, import, and connected notifications or services before retiring the parts of the old setup that provide them.
Check the uninstall setting before removal
Before uninstalling, open Event Manager → Settings → General and inspect Delete Data on Uninstall. The vendor’s uninstall guidance says that when cleanup is enabled, uninstalling deletes data and that the deletion cannot be retrieved. Confirm the setting and retain a verified backup before proceeding.
How to evaluate a replacement
There is no universally safe destination without knowing the target platform and the way the current site uses the plugin. Compare candidates against the data and behavior you actually need to preserve:
- Can it import your custom fields, including required, repeated, private, or specially formatted values?
- Can it preserve categories, types, tags, and their event assignments?
- Can it represent organizers and venues and maintain their relationships to events?
- How does it handle attendee, order, payment, ticket-status, check-in, and consent records if your site uses them?
- Can it represent recurring events in the way your current setup requires?
- Can you retain important URL slugs and set up redirects for URLs that change?
- What must be rebuilt for templates, forms, search, filters, notifications, and integrations?
For a site with custom fields or active ticketing and registration, a WordPress event migration specialist can help map records and test the cutover. The key is to assess the destination against your actual exports and workflows rather than treating a successful file import as proof that the migration is complete.
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