Only a certain category shown on certain pages?

[milauskas]

Hi,
I’m using the Pro version (and very happy with it), but a potential client is requesting this: Have only those events in a certain category show on certain pages. Can this be done? Let’s say I have the Events Cal. widget on a sidebar. I want to show only upcoming events for Parents on all Parents pages. But, if I go to Teachers pages, could I show only upcoming events for Teachers? Is it possible to add multiple Events Cal widgets to a sidebar, assign a specific category to each one and use something like widget logic to make them display only on the appropriate pages?

[snorton]

milauskas,
I had a similar task and wanted to use the mini calendar for the function. Even though I was able to create a filter for the minicalendar to display only events that were in a specific category (as your example, “Parents” category on a Parents page (matching slugs)), I still had an issue with the list below the calendar displaying events from all categories and since I am on time constraints I decided to go the route of simply listing the events in a list.
Here’s what I did:
http://pastebin.com/Zg1BBLNT

You’ll see this isn’t completely optimized and doesn’t address using the minicalendar, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction and provides a solution for you to build from.
I’ve stripped it down to basics — I have more details to display but wanted to share for the sake of example.

Another option is to register a sidebar for each individual page and place a new instance of the calendar widget with manually-set category filters.

[Barry]

There’s not a great deal I can add on top of Snorton’s advice here, Milauskas (and thanks for sharing Snorton). Does that give you enough to get started?

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