Title: Altering Widgets
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Altering Widgets

 *  [kittykata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kittykata/)
 * (@kittykata)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/altering-widgets/)
 * 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?
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 *  [Herbert van-Vliet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remarkno/)
 * (@remarkno)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/altering-widgets/#post-6580428)
 * You’ll probably want to check out this document:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes#Create_New_Widget_Area_Using_Custom_Function](http://codex.wordpress.org/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kittykata/)
 * (@kittykata)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/altering-widgets/#post-6580614)
 * 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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 * Last reply from: [kittykata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kittykata/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/altering-widgets/#post-6580614)
 * Status: not resolved