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Here’s what the Simple Page Sidebars people told me. I haven’t tried it yet. . .
“Actually, I don’t think the Simple Page Sidebars plugin is going to be useful in this scenario and just using native WordPress functions is the way to go if you’re comfortable modifying code.
The approach you would really need to take is something like this:
1. Register a new sidebar specifically for your calendar page in functions.php in your theme using register_sidebar()
2. Duplicate your default page template (usually page.php) and call it something like page_events.php. At the top, you’ll need to register it as a custom page template by adding a special header.
3. Replace the sidebar in that template with a call to your new custom sidebar using dynamic_sidebar().
4. Then in The Events Calendar settings, you can select your new page template and it’ll use the custom sidebar, which you can drag widgets to on the widgets screen.
Hope that helps. Otherwise, there are other sidebar plugins that may have more functionality and be better suited for your needs in this case.”I am currently using the Default Events Template, which shows no sidebar. If I change to either the Default Page Template or the Archives Template, then I get a sidebar with all the pages in my site listed. Normally to put in a different sidebar using Simple Sidebars, you would go to the standard page edit screen and in the sidebar area, there’s a place to make a new sidebar and then a link to the widgets to then put in the content into that sidebar you just created. Then it shows up on the page. However, even though it seems to work to create the sidebar, it doesn’t show up on the calendar page (works fine for all my other pages). It sounds like I should contact the Simple Sidebar developer and see what they can tell me, unless you can think of anything else. Thanks!
The category method could work. However, I can’t figure out how to remove the standard Pages sidebar that shows all the pages in my site on the calendar page’s sidebar. On my other pages, I am using the plug-in Simple Sidebars, to pull in various different menus, but it doesn’t work on the calendar page. Is there a tutorial on how to put a custom menu on the the calendar sidebar? I know how to make the menu and drag it into a widget, but how to make it actually show up on the calendar is the problem.
Thanks for the info, but I’m not able to figure out how to remove the “Events for” text in the month view title. I also want to remove the “TH” and “ND” in the title of the Week and Day views. More specific instructions would be appreciated. Thank you!
