Hey guys, thanks for the helpful and quick replies! I’ll experiment with all of this.
Its not necessarily part of the theme’s files. I made a little code for the sidebar that displays events for the current day of the week. The events are already predefined and attached to a day of the week in the “function file,” and I simply have a PHP widget with an include function that references that file. It all works fine right now, but I was just looking for a more specific and simple form of function such as “get_events();” instead of my current “includes(remote_address);”