[Steven]

Andy – thanks again for you’re continued engagement in this thread. The site I am trying to use it on is here:
http://www.thebarnpresents.com/events
It is a live music calendar. I wanted to add visual cues to each of the listings to make distinguish between shows and for people to easily locate what they’re looking for.
These come in two separate ways:
1. by musical genre — I wanted this to be use the color coding. the problems here is that sometimes bands I cover straddle musical genres (e.g. rock + jazz) or there are more than one act on a bill or in a festival lineup. Ideally, I would have a hierarchy (have the calendar always display the color code for rock over jazz over acoustic for instance) or barring that (I can only categorize based on the genre I wanted to display
2. by event description — if the band was local to our area, is playing a weekly residency, we recommend, plays covers, we highly endorse the event, or the event is a festival, I wanted to use icons to convey these categories, too. Of course — a recommended local cover band at a weekly residency would require 4 separate icons.
My guess is that this type of thing is not easily accomplished through the available plug-ins. My hope is that it wouldn’t be that difficult for somebody with a working knowledge of the code to add in. Any suggestion for how I could potentially find somebody willing to help me out?

[Steven]

Plugin is great — thanks! Wondering: will it only work if the event has one and only one category assigned? Seems like if there is more than one category, it will not pick up any colors even if only one of the assigned categories is associated with a color. Am I missing something? Would be cool if there was a category hierarchy, that would choose first available color from an ordered list.

Similarly, in the code snippet you suggest above… will that only display one icon per category or would it cycle through a list like what is depicted in the example.

Thanks again for your responses thus far.

[Steven]

I made these 20×20 icons:

http://www.thebarnpresents.net/images/events/barn_opt.jpg
http://www.thebarnpresents.net/images/events/covers_opt.jpg
http://www.thebarnpresents.net/images/events/festival_opt.jpg
http://www.thebarnpresents.net/images/events/residency_opt.jpg
http://www.thebarnpresents.net/images/events/local_opt.jpg
http://www.thebarnpresents.net/images/events/recommends_opt.jpg

Each is associated with a category. I would like them to display alongside the title of the event in the calendar with the corresponding category(s). This would be in addition to the coloring which would represent another set of categories. Here is a screencap of a mockup that I did:

http://www.thebarnpresents.net/images/events/screen_grab_cal.jpg

Does that make sense?

[Steven]

Was not even aware of that plugin! Looks like that will get me half way there. Still would love to be able to display icons next to the event title as well that are determined by category.

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