[Support request] Number of footers vary from page to page

[TeckChew]

I am a new GeneratePress v2.21/GPP Premium v1.77 user and I am having problem controlling the number of footer widgets on my front/home page.

I created a mockup site https://niceyachtforhire.com with 3 footer widgets which I wanted them to appear on my front page and Rent page only. On my front/home page only 2(instead of 3) footer widgets appear while on the Rent page all 3 footer widgets are correctly displayed. This is what I did:

1. Created 3 footer widgets: (1) filter product by price (2) Product search (3) Cart
2. Specified 3 widgets in Customize->Layout->Footer->Footer Widgets->3
3. Created a GP Element- ShopLayout – with 3 widgets in Footer and Display Rules that apply to Shop Page and All Products
4. Created another GP Element – HomeLayout -> with 3 widgets in Footer and Display Rules that apply to Front Page and Yacht Page (which is the front page)

My Front Page will only display 2 widgets – that is the 2nd and 3 widgets. I have tried changing the number of widgets in the HomeLayout Element to 0,1,3,and 4, but only 2 widgets will be displayed. It seems that this Element has no impact on the front page at all. The Rent Page is displaying correctly the 3 widgets. Originally I have also specified the ShopLayout Element Display Rules to include the Front Page but to no avail: the front page will just display 2 widgets.

Can you advise where else I can control the number of widgets to be displayed on the front page?

Thanks.

[Leo]

Hi there,

That’s really werid. I can see the code for footer widget 1 showing on the front page, but it just looks like nothing is in it:
https://www.screencast.com/t/ieJjx0Do

I don’t think it’s a GP problem though.

What happens if you disable Beaver Builder? That’s the only main difference I see on the front page.

If not can you go through #1 here
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/debugging-tips/

If not then try #4 in the same article.

Let me know 🙂

[Leo]

Can you try #1 here to eliminate any plugin conflicts first?
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/debugging-tips/

If that doesn’t help, what if you just insert a normal text widget as footer widget 1?

Please make sure to reply here, not through the e-mails.

[TeckChew]

Hi Leo

This is what I found after deactivating plugins and GeneratePress theme. The culprit is the widget itself – filter by price. For some reason it will appear only on the Shop/Rent page but not on other pages. I replaced the Filter By Price widget with a Text widget and it will appear on the Home page.

Now, I decided not to show any footer widgets at all on my Home page by setting the number of footer widgets in my HomeLayout Element to zero. As I have mentioned in my earlier message it seems that this Element does not have an impact on the number of footer widgets being displayed on my Home Page. I tried default value, 0, 1,2,3 etc – it will still show 2 widgets for now(because the filter-by-price widget is skipped). It seems that GeneratePress is taking the number of widgets to display from Customize-?Layut->Footer->Footer Widgets

Pls let me know how I can suppress the display of footer widgets on my Home page(or for that matter on other non-woo commerce pages) when the Element does not seem to work. Thanks.

Regards
TeckChew

[David]

Hi there,

price filter widget is a dynamic widget that only displays where a shop archive is present. You can look at one of the Dynamic / Conditional Widget plugins to replace widgets by page template.

[TeckChew]

Thanks David.

Do you have any Dynamci /Conditional Logic plugin to recommend?

In the meantime, I just don’t want my Home page to display any footer widget. I created a HomeLayout Element and set the number of footer widgets to zero for my Home page but it seems that this Element has no effect at all. Where did I go wrong?

Thanks.

Regards
TC

[David]

Maybe give this a try, it handles any widget areas not just sidebars:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/

In your Layout Element > Display Rules try selecting: Front Page.

[TeckChew]

Hi

Yes I have done that before asking Support for help. I have applied the Display Rules to Front page and Yacht page(which is my front page). I am aware of the Display Rules and that is why I have different Elements for different pages.

I have also tried just applying the display rules to Front Page alone and also just to Yacht Page alone. I have tried various combinations but the HomeLayout Element does not seem to have an effect at all on the number of footer widgets being displayed.

I don’t think the Element works at all because I have also created another Header Element merging the contents and navigation bar but I don’t have a transparent home page. I will raise this problem in another thread.

Is there anything in GP that I need to set to get Elements to work?

Regards
TC

[David]

Would you provide us with temporary admin login so we can see what is going on?
You can send the details via the Account Issue form here:
https://generatepress.com/contact/

Please add the URL of this topic to the form so we can track.

[TeckChew]

Hi David

I have just sent you the login credentials via the https://generatepress.com/contact(Account issue)

Regards
TC

[David]

OK so the Layout Meta on the Yacht Page is overriding the Layout Element.
But do you just want the front page to display as if there were 2 columns, as the empty filter widget is currently missing?

If so then remove the Layout Element, and leave your widget settings elsewhere as 3 and add this CSS:

body:not(.woocommerce) .inside-footer-widgets > div:not(:first-child) {
    width: 50%;
}

It will make the 2 widgets occupy the whole width on any non woocommerce page where the filter wont display.

Let me know.

[TeckChew]

Thank you very much,David.

Actually, I don’t want to display any footer widget at all on the Front Page(Yacht Page).

I modified your CSS codes to

body:not(.woocommerce) .inside-footer-widgets > div:not(:first-child) {
Display: none;
}

That got rid of the widgets. Thanks once again David. I am really appreciate your help.

[David]

Ok, thats great – glad to be of help.

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