I recently installed the PRO version of The Events Calendar and was surprised to see this wasn’t a feature! The ability to have the mini calendar display a specific category of events. After researching it on the web and in these forums, I couldn’t find anything for it. I’m not sure if this has been posted yet, but for anyone looking to do this, here’s how to do it.<\/p>\n
Step 1. Allow arguments to be passed through the mini-grid function. Open up calendar.php (the-events-calendar\/public\/template-tags)
\nScroll down to where the function tribe_calendar_mini_grid() is defined (line 34).<\/p>\n
Original:
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\nfunction tribe_calendar_mini_grid() {
\n\tset_query_var( ‘eventDisplay’, ‘bydate’ );
\n\tload_template( TribeEventsTemplates::getTemplateHierarchy( ‘table-mini’ ) );
\n}
\n———————————————–<\/p>\n
Modified:
\n———————————————–
\nfunction tribe_calendar_mini_grid($mini_cat = ”) {
\n\tset_query_var( ‘eventDisplay’, ‘bydate’ );
\n\tif ($mini_cat != ”) {
\n\t\t\tset_query_var( ‘eventCat’, $mini_cat );
\n\t\t}
\n\tload_template( TribeEventsTemplates::getTemplateHierarchy( ‘table-mini’ ) );
\n}
\n———————————————–
\nIf there’s a category passed as a string through the variable $mini_cat, it triggers set_query_var to change the wp_query parameters used by the calendar.<\/p>\n
Step 2. Make mini_table.php (the-events-calendar\/views) use the category set by $mini_cat. Starting at line 28…
\nOriginal:
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\n$eventPosts = tribe_get_events(array( ‘eventDisplay’=>’month’ ) );
\n———————————————–<\/p>\n
Modified:
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\nif ( isset( $wp_query->query_vars[‘eventCat’] ) ) {
\n\t\t$EventCategory = $wp_query->query_vars[‘eventCat’];
\n\t\t$eventPosts = tribe_get_events( array( ‘eventCat’ => $EventCategory, ‘eventDisplay’=>’month’ ) );
\n\t} else {
\n\t\t$eventPosts = tribe_get_events(array( ‘eventDisplay’=>’month’ ) );
\n\t}
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\nSave and upload. For templates, you can use:
\ntribe_calendar_mini_grid($mini_cat = ”);
\nand insert the category ID number inside the quotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-30616","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n