Hi Joyce,
Thanks for getting back to me. I posted this in haste, so I wasn’t able to explain myself.
The tutorial you mentioned gives the following code:
remove_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘events_calendar_load_featured_widget’,100);
That code is also being used to upgrade the regular widgets in the events calendar to the pro versions in events calendar pro. That means I can’t actually customize the widget because the weight of actions only goes to 100.
Let me know if this makes sense.