There are a few approaches here – one would be to create a special use sidebar area, the other would be to leverage WordPress’s the_widget() function (you might even wrap it inside a shortcode).
Good luck!
I did this and it works perfectly. I registered a new sidebar by adding code such as
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => __('UNIQUIESIDEBARNAMEHERE', 'quest'),
'id' => 'UNIQUIENAMEHERE',
'before_widget' => '<section id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s"><div class="widget-inner">',
'after_widget' => '</div></section><div class="clearfix"></div>',
'before_title' => '<div class="widget-title bd_headings_text_shadow">',
'after_title' => '</div>',
));
in my functions.php file. NOTE, copy the information for everything under ‘id’ above from your theme’s sidebar code in functions.php to make your new sidebar act the same.
then after that, add the “event list” widget to this sidebar in widgets and leave the title blank (if you want) but add how many events you wanna show. then, install this plugin : http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-instance/
go to your page and looks for the new puzzle piece icon and choose your widget: see these screenshots for reference: http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-instance/screenshots/
it worked perfectly for me.
Marking this as resolved as its been a while – hopefully this approach works for you 🙂
