# Easily create Events categories using the Calendar and Events plugin

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**Tags:** events, categories\
**Created:** [May 15, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/easily-create-events-categories-using-the-calendar-and-events-plugin/401309 "2026-05-15T22:58:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/easily-create-events-categories-using-the-calendar-and-events-plugin/401309/6 "2026-05-20T19:32:15Z")

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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):

 ![Proposed Events view](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/5/8/558fe52e5d65b67b8142140d91037590467cff52.jpeg)

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.

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