page-past-events.php

<?php 
      get_header(); 
      pageBanner(array(
        'title' => 'Past Events',
        'subtitle' => 'A Recap of our past events.'
  ));
?>

  		<div class="container container--narrow page-section">
  
  			<?php 
          $today = date('Ymd');
          $pastEvents = new WP_Query(array(
            'paged' => get_query_var('paged', 1),
            'post_type' => 'event',
            'meta_key' => 'event_date',
            'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
            'order' => 'ASC',
            'meta_query' => array(
              array(
                'key' => 'event_date',
                'compare' => '<',
                'value' => $today,
                'type' => 'numeric'
              )
            )
          ));
          while($pastEvents->have_posts()){
				    $pastEvents->the_post();
           get_template_part('template-parts/content-event');
			       		
			    } 
				echo paginate_links(array(
          'total' => $pastEvents->max_num_pages
        ));
        wp_reset_postdata();
			?>
  		</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>