Display separate month-view calendars by category

[Jason]

Using Events Calendar Pro with Filter Var and Community Events add-ons on a school site. We want to have two separate month-view calendars. The use case for this is listing general school events on one page, then another page that lists Sports/Athletics category only. Again, both in monthly view. I cannot find a shortcode or any other method that would provide this. Is their a solution I am missing?

[Jon]

Hi Jason,

There may be another way to do this, but you can simply create a new Custom Menu Item, and simply follow the URI format of the TEC. First you would need to make sure that your Categories are properly setup; particularly in the Parent-Child way.

So to list your Sports(Parent)/Athletics(Child) monthly calendar, your link could point to:
http://example.com/events-view/category/sports/athletics/

or

For Sports Baseball:
http://example.com/events-view/category/sports/baseball/

and

To list all Sport in general:
http://example.com/events-view/category/sports/ (will list all children of sports: i.e. baseball, football, etc)

Hope that helps! 😉

[Andras]

Hi Jason, hi Jon,

Very good question there, Jason!

Jon, thanks a lot for chiming in. Indeed that is the way I would recommend you to do it. It doesn’t need any customization of the plugins, you just need to create separate event categories, assign the events to them and then just show them with the links based on Jon’s example.

If you want you can use different colors for the categories with the help of this plugin:

The Events Calendar: Category Colors

Let me know if that helps or if you have any followup questions.

Cheers,
Andras

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