Comment on Easily create Events categories using the Calendar and Events plugin
martin@meta.discourse.org 5 weeks ago Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean showing the upcoming events link in the sidebar? Or having an easier way to set up the sidebar for your site?
Sure! I’m referring to automating the setup with the Right Sidebar Blocks.
My interpretation of the below was that you’re tweaking/enabling settings to streamline the calendar set-up. I know we preferred the sidebar implementation over the full calendar view.
Oh interesting, I wasn’t aware of this integration with the right sidebar blocks component! Maybe we can do some check to see if the component is installed/enabled and if so turn on the events there? Will have to investigate a bit further.
It certainly would be helpful to be able to easily implement a calendar/upcoming events block in the right sidebar (and the other frameworks).
For that matter, it would be extremely helpful to have a unified upcoming events (i.e. Calendar) AND topic list as the Events category view. I mean something like this (forgive the rough copy/paste):
The current Events category sort, while clever, doesn’t do a great job of making it visibly obvious what actually are the upcoming events. It just looks like a regular topic list with a weird order.
The Yearly View on upcoming-events gets close to this, but only if hacked to hide the expired events. And it is on a completely different page, with navigation to this quite jarring.
In my mind, a combination of the best bits on a single page (as above) would work brilliantly.