sorry i new it did not work in my head but neglected to put it in the post 😉 i should have said, “this solution did not work for me and the reason seems to be if there are no events to display in the category then $title is empty so the_title() does not have anything to display.” as long as there is at least 1 event in the grid the title displays, no events in the grid/month no title is displayed.
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