{"id":21,"date":"2026-04-04T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/recurring-tasks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:35:00","slug":"recurring-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/recurring-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"Recurring tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Some work happens on a schedule \u2014 weekly reviews, monthly reports, quarterly planning. Recurring tasks regenerate themselves on the cadence you set.<\/p>\n<h2>Setting a recurrence<\/h2>\n<p>On any task, click the due-date picker, then <strong>Repeat<\/strong>. Choose a pattern:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Daily<\/strong> \u2014 every day, every weekday, or every <em>n<\/em> days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weekly<\/strong> \u2014 pick the days. &#8220;Monday and Thursday&#8221; is common for standup-related tasks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monthly<\/strong> \u2014 by date (the 5th) or by weekday (the second Tuesday).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yearly<\/strong> \u2014 useful for annual reviews, contract renewals, compliance reports.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Custom<\/strong> \u2014 full cron-style expression, including business-day-only patterns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How regeneration works<\/h2>\n<p>Lattica creates the next occurrence when the current one is marked Done \u2014 not on the calendar trigger. This matters: if you skip a week&#8217;s standup and only mark it Done Friday, next week&#8217;s task gets created from Friday, not from the original Monday.<\/p>\n<p>To override this and use strict calendar timing, enable <em>Always regenerate from schedule<\/em> in the recurrence options.<\/p>\n<h2>What carries over<\/h2>\n<p>The new occurrence inherits: title, description, assignee, priority, custom field values, attachments, and any subtasks (as fresh, uncompleted copies). What doesn&#8217;t carry over: comments, completed-state of subtasks, time logs.<\/p>\n<h2>Pausing and stopping<\/h2>\n<p>Open the task, click <strong>Recurrence \u2192 Pause<\/strong> to skip generation without deleting the rule. Click <strong>Stop<\/strong> to end the series \u2014 the current task remains, but no further occurrences are created.<\/p>\n<h2>Limits<\/h2>\n<p>To prevent runaway generation, Lattica caps a single recurrence rule at 1,000 future occurrences. If you hit that ceiling you&#8217;ve probably configured the cadence wrong \u2014 daily for ten years generates 3,650, which is fine, but every-five-minutes-forever does not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schedule patterns, regeneration rules, what carries over, and how to pause cleanly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,25,18],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-tasks","tag-automation","tag-recurring","tag-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/mywiki-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}