# Past events keep getting deleted

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** events
**Created:** [November 10, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044 "2023-11-10T07:00:39Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/past-events-keep-getting-deleted/285044/4 "2023-11-10T07:59:13Z")

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For the Events part of the plugin (which are included on the `/upcoming-events` calendar) past ones only stay visible if they don’t have an end date. It has been mentioned before that’d be good if there was an option to display them still ([Display old Events on the 'Upcoming Events' page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvements-to-the-upcoming-events-page/246634)), but currently it’s not possible.

And just for the extra info, the setting `delete expired event posts after` controls how long old calendar item posts are kept for on the topic calendars (you can see an example of one of those here - [Category Calendar demo topic - calendar - Discourse Demo](https://try.discourse.org/t/category-calendar-demo-topic/1461))

The settings specific for Events are on the second tab:

 ![Event setting tab](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/6/7/86790df098dda8ecf9673843026818603be104df.png)

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