rwbennet

I ended up creating a new sidebar called sidebar-events.php. I then just called that sidebar directly in the gridview.php template with get_sidebar('events');. In the sidebar-events.php file I just copied the output styles using Firebug and then did an “if dynamic sidebar exists function” to call the main sidebar (in my case, the name of my main sidebar is ‘Primary Aside’). Here is all the code I used in the sidebar-events.php template:

<div id="primary" class="aside main-aside">
	<ul class="xoxo">
		<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Primary Aside') ) : else : ?>
		<?php endif; //end if for sidebar widgets plugin check?>
	</ul>
</div>

Hope that helps

@wlanni

I checked out your events site and have seen your posts in the forums. I notice you use TEC and Thematic. Have you by chance found a way to display the events calendar (gridview, list, etc…) and still retain the thematic_sidebar?

@pjerky

The problem with this is that it can break the styles of a site, especially when your site is designed around using a sidebar. I have been able to fix this no problem,

How exactly did you fix it? I cannot get my sidebar to show. I’m using Thematic with a Custom child theme and I think I’ve pretty much tried everything and nothing seems to work (short of hacking the actual plugin). Is there something special you did so that the plugin doesn’t take over?

Thanks in advance, this has been driving me crazy!