Sidebar Calendar Widget?

Yes, it sounds like ICS Calendar would meet your needs. You may need to look into the options of the Pro version for some of the additional view layouts it offers (specifically the Widget view).

I encourage you to download the free version and give it a try!

Thanks for the reply.

I installed the plugin and managed to get it to display a list of events in my sidebar, but I could not work out how to filter the list by Category.

My ICS feed includes category data, and I need to be able to filter my two sidebar calendar lists to split out performances and rehearsals into different lists, like I have currently.

Can I filter by Category somehow with this plugin?

Would it be possible to get your feed URL? You can email it to the address on the plugin’s admin page if you don’t want to post it here.

The reason I am asking for this is that most calendar software does not include the CATEGORIES field in the ICS output, but some does. I’d like to verify that your feed actually includes the category data.

If it does, then I can offer at least a partial solution for you. ICS Calendar’s support of categories is fairly limited because so few calendar programs actually include the data in the first place, but it does add a special data attribute to the HTML containers for events that have categories. This allows for some custom CSS to modify the appearance of events, based on their categories.

In terms of filtering the events into two separate lists based on categories, that could also be done using the r34ics_display_calendar_exclude_event filter. The way you’d need to use this is a bit tricky, but I can help you work out exactly what the code should be. (Again… if your feed actually includes the data in the first place.)