Option to display thumbnails in event lists

[m-e-h]

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Any plans to add a thumbnail option, maybe to the show parameter in sc_get_events_list()?

The post-type supports thumbnails. Might be nice to display them in the events_list shortcodes and widgets.

[pippinsplugins]

I don't see any reason we cannot add support for thumbnails.

[JJJ]

@pippinsplugins you think in core by default, or with an add-on?

The only reason I ask, is while most calendar applications do allow rich media embedded into events, none that I have researched support a way to give an event a specific unique thumbnail.

We'd need to make some decisions around how far/deep this gets supported, given the block-based future ahead of us, and how Post Types tend to use thumbnails as featured header images, etc...

Will require:

• [ ] Theme support (markup, styling)
• [ ] Post type support (via add_post_type_support())
• [ ] Admin area styling (pointers, list tables, calendars)
• [ ] Schema.org Image support (see sugarcalendar/core#47)

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Personally, I'm leaning towards having this as an add-on, or focusing on Event blocks instead via sugarcalendar/standard#135. Thoughts?

[pippinsplugins]

If we build this, I do think it should be in core, but let's hold of on making a decision until later. We can keep an eye open for additional requests.

[m-e-h]

To add some context to the original issue, I was needing to display the event thumbnails in an events list.

Obviously, this would mostly be up to the theme for thumbnails on archives and single posts, but I was a little surprised to find that there wasn't an option in the Events List widget nor an attribute for the shortcode to do this.

Wasn't a big deal to use the sc_before_event_list_item hook to do it but thought I'd open this issue in case there were others with the same expectations since thumbnail was already supported on the sc_event post type.

To show a "Featured Image" use case, I think it's pretty slick how Google calendar does their event lists:

btw, 2.0 is looking great so far!