Gigpress discontinued, converting to TEC?

Hi @cstokley, apologies for the delay here. Transition to The Events Calendar is easy as well and the plugin is fairly straight forward — just like GigPress with more features.

You should be able to export all data from GigPress, and I can see you already saw the migration article to The Events Calendar here. You should be able to export the data and use the same file and do the following:

1. Import Venues
2. Import Organizers
3. Import Events

This would be the default recommended import procedure, if you use the same file and you import the venues and organizers first, then when you import the events, the connection will be made.

See the article here ??:
https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/k/importing-data-from-a-csv-file/

To be safe, we’d recommend conducting tests and updates on a Staging Server. Also, please keep a working backup of your website.

Let me know how it goes.

Best,
Abz

Thanks for responding.

I have done exactly as you suggest on a staging site, but unfortunately I do not find it straight forward at all due to the information taxonomy mismatch between GigPress and The Events Calendar.

In GigPress, a WordPress post can have a 1-n relationship with GigPress “shows”. Similarly a GigPress “tour” can also have a 1-n relationship with “shows”. The Events Calendar represents each of these “shows” as a stand-alone event, with no relationship to other “shows” in the same “tour” (or related to the same WordPress post). For my organization, the bulk of the information about any given performance is in the related WordPress post, not in the GigPress “shows” (individual performances), and I don’t see any automated way to add this information to the converted TEC events.