[Resolved] Front page widgets

[Shaun Colley]

Hi I’m looking for some guidance to help me add widgets to a fixed front page / homepage I have had no real issues configuring the other pages of the site including layouts and content with exception to the Homepage.

Apologies if i have not explained myself correctly, im fairly new to WordPress so still finding my feet.

any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

[Tom]

Hi there,

Where are you trying to add widgets? Somewhere other than the header, sidebars and footer?

Or are you trying to show different widgets on the homepage than the other pages?

[Shaun Colley]

Thanks for your response, im trying to add a widget area to page called homepage set to be the frontpage in the theme properties.

Im testing converting our website from Joomla to WordPress while retaining the a similar look and feel to the site.

To achieve this I need to place specific content into the homepage
The layout that I’m trying to create:

——- Header —— right-sidebar
-Slider – Content — right-sidebar
—— Content —— right-sidebar
2 columns right-sidebar
— Footer widgets — right-sidebar
—— Footer ——- right-sidebar

Hope this makes sense, I have tried to follow various methods to add widget content to the theme by means of creating a front-page template none have worked for me probably user error, besides this hurdle the theme is brilliant and ticks all the boxes in expectation I have purchased the all add-ons pack

[Tom]

You may not need to create widget areas to achieve that layout.

To create multiple columns within your content, try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/lightweight-grid-columns

If you want to display a widget in your content, this plugin might be useful: https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-shortcode/

[Shaun Colley]

Ok thanks I will give them a try later today, I have been trying to get https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/ but not had a lot of success with that either.

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