[Resolved] Setting Widgets to 0 still displays them?

[v4ncouver]

Hi,
I’ve seen a tutorial where someone suggests to put an empty text tag into the footer widgets but that seems a bit too barbaric in 2017.

So …. how can I set those flipping footer widgets NOT to display?

Here is what the mess looks like:
https://www.earlymusiceducation.com/early-music-education-website/

This hasn’t actually worked for me from the beginning but I had bigger issues.

I look forward solving that puzzle. This is a NEW install with only five plugins.
They are: Askismet, CC7, Elementor (not used for the blog), GP Premium and SG Optimizer (which is something my webhost automatically installs for caching).

This is really puzzling me and I don’t get what I am missing?

Update!
I have since gone to Customizer > Layout > Widgets and selected 0 which fixed it but what I don’t know is if the widgets now can’t be used at all or? Seems to be unnecessarily complicated considering that most themes don’t do this the weird way.

[Leo]

Hi there,

Looks like there are no footer widgets on that page to me?

Here is what I see: https://s23.postimg.org/gu9imvdvf/2017-04-29_2331.png

Are you seeing something different? If so try clear the browser cache.

Let me know.

[v4ncouver]

WOW, that was quick!
I was hoping that I can set the number of visible widgets by using the radio buttons on a given page.
Disabling them in the Customizer did work but I am still confused about “how” GeneratePress wants us to use widgets.
I’ve been using WP since Lassy was a puppy and don’t ever remember issues with widgets. At least not displaying them.

I’ll experiment some more … It’s been a long day.
Thanks again for your help. 🙂

[Leo]

The customizer option allows you to set global setting, the meta box allows you to the number of footer widgets on individual pages/posts.

See this page for more info: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/footer-widgets/

Let me know if this answers your question or if you need more info 🙂

[v4ncouver]

If I understand this right then you basically set the “default” number of widgets in customizer and override that value as needed when publishing a blog post or page.
I’ll test some more tomorrow because I also have issues with the sidebar display. No matter what I check, I often don’t get the result but that’s another story.
Thanks again. 🙂

[Leo]

If I understand this right then you basically set the “default” number of widgets in customizer and override that value as needed when publishing a blog post or page.

Exactly 🙂

Glad I could help!

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