You have a list of events you want to share with your reader base - why not display them on your site?

BluestNight provides both a sidebar widget to display the 5 earliest occurring events listed and a template for a .ics calendar file that readers can subscribe to.

Setup

Place a data file for each event in the data/events/ directory for your site. You will need to create the events subdirectory. The data files should have the following key/value pairs:

• name: The name of the event.
• startDatetime: The date and time that the event starts, in a time format that Hugo recognizes.
• endDatetime: The date and time that the event ends, in a time format that Hugo recognizes.
• location: Where the event is taking place.
• description: A short description of the event.

To enable events on your site, set upcoming_events to true under Params.widgets in your sites configuration folder:

# In config.toml

[Params.widgets]
    upcoming_events = true

Limitations

• Items do not automatically disappear from the sidebar
  • BluestNight automatically filters out events that have already passed when adding events to the sidebar, but it cannot dynamically remove them as they pass, due to it being a static site. It is on the site administrator to at least rebuild the site after an event has passed, though I suggest considering removing the data file as well.