Altering Widgets

  • kittykata

    (@kittykata)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, I’ve amended the widget layout to Responsive theme, making a new sidebar-home.php for the child theme with 4 across “Home Widget”. Is it possible to add this widget to the Widgets Dashboard? I would also like to have 2 across. Is there a better way of doing this without making a child theme sidebar-home.php?

    http://byc-staging.europeaxess.com

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  • Herbert van-Vliet

    (@remarkno)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    You’ll probably want to check out this document:
    http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Widgetizing_Themes#Create_New_Widget_Area_Using_Custom_Function

    If you only amended the sidebar-home.php, then the widget area should still be available in the widgets dashboard.
    If you want to make another one with 2 across, you could also solve that by adding some specific css.

    So: if this is just a requirement for one site, I’d go for the css-solution. If you want to deploy it for multiple sites, consider adopting the theme further.

    Thread Starter kittykata

    (@kittykata)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    I’m having trouble getting this to work. I’ve never done anything with Theme Specific Hooks before, does this theme use them?

    I have only amended the sidebar-home.php in the child theme, but no new widgets appeared in the Dashboard.

    And yes it is only for this site, not multiple sites.

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