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wordpress the events calendar

I'm using the events calendar plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/ I'm trying to display the upcoming and past events in the sidebar. The plugins notes says this about displaying upcoming events "Events/Upcoming &cat=&eventDisplay=upcoming" I'm not sure how to implement this.

Ryan Smith

did you check your widgets? there probably is a widge to drag to your side bar. The url they give is just for sorting the page if your linking to it.

tymolhook

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right now when I click the widgets tab it gives me the following message "he theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change". I'm using a custom theme I built. Should I be using widgets? I'm really new to wordpress, so I'm not too sure how to enable widgets or what they do.

Currently I have the following php that shows all events, but I want it separated into upcoming events and past events. Can I just update my php to query only past or future events?

      <ul>
            <?php $my_query2 = new WP_Query('category_name=events&posts_per_page=5'); ?>
<?php while ($my_query2->have_posts()) : $my_query2->the_post(); ?>
<li><?php the_date(); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
      </ul>

<ul>
		<?php $my_query2 = new WP_Query('category_name=events&posts_per_page=5'); ?>
<?php while ($my_query2->have_posts()) : $my_query2->the_post(); ?>
<li><?php the_date(); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
	</ul>

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