Choose Event, Class, or Session and its schedule

Separate the activity type from the schedule

Activity type describes what visitors are viewing. Schedule describes when it happens. Choosing Event, Class, or Session does not by itself make the activity repeat.

• Event suits a public occasion such as an open day, performance, or workshop.
• Class suits instruction such as yoga, language, or craft lessons.
• Session suits an individual time slot, meeting, or scheduled program segment.

All three types are available in Free. They use the same activity record and can appear in public lists, calendars, and filters.

Create a one-time activity in Free

1. Open Events & Bookings > Events & Calendar > Add New.
2. Enter a clear title.
3. In Activity details, choose Event, Class, or Session from Activity type.
4. Set the Starts date and time.
5. Choose a Duration, or enable Set a specific end date and time when the activity does not fit a preset duration.
6. Add the location, teacher or host profiles, description, category, and featured image that the activity needs.
7. Select Save Draft if the details are not final, or Publish when the activity is ready for visitors.

Free saves newly created and edited activities as a one-time schedule. You do not need to choose a separate schedule type in the Free editor.

Change the activity type later

1. Open All Events and select the activity.
2. Change Activity type.
3. Select Update.
4. Review the public activity and any page that uses an activity-type filter.

Changing the type does not change the start date, duration, location, teachers, or description.

Choose the type by purpose

For example, create Island Food Festival as an Event because it is one public occasion. Create Beginner Pottery as a Class because its purpose is instruction. Create Portfolio Review — 10:00 as a Session when the record represents one scheduled slot.

Use consistent types across the website. Visitors can then use the public Activity type filter without having to guess why similar activities were classified differently.

Understand the Pro schedule option

With active Pro access, Activity type and Schedule type appear as separate controls. Schedule type can be One-time or Recurring. A recurring activity can repeat daily, weekly, or monthly and can store its own interval, end date, skipped dates, and moved occurrences.

Use One-time in Pro for a single date, even when the activity type is Class. Use Recurring only when one activity record should generate a series. Detailed recurrence setup belongs to the recurring schedules guide.

Free and Pro share the same activity data. If Pro becomes inactive, recurring records are not deleted. Free deliberately avoids overwriting their Pro-only recurrence configuration and tells an editor to reactivate Pro before changing that schedule.

Troubleshoot type and schedule choices

The Schedule type control is not visible

That is expected in Free. Free creates one-time schedules. Confirm that both Free and Pro are active and that Pro access is valid when you need the Recurring choice.

A recurring activity cannot be edited in Free

Reactivate Pro before changing the record. This protection prevents the Free editor from replacing stored recurrence settings with a one-time schedule.

The activity is missing from a filtered public list

Edit the activity and confirm its publication status, Activity type, start date, and assigned category. Then confirm that the page's block or shortcode filters include that type and date range.