Title: Extra Widget Space?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Extra Widget Space?

 *  [LouisaLeung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/louisaleung/)
 * (@louisaleung)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-widget-space/)
 * Hello!
 * It’s the first time I’m building my own website and I just started yesterday 
   so it’s not launched just yet… I’m currently having fun with the Sela theme and
   it’s looking great so far, but I’m wondering if there is any way to add more 
   widget onto the front page? More specially, I have a Image Rotator Widget that
   I would like to add in full-width mood between the front page featured photo 
   and the three front page widgets. I’m an illustrator and I’d really like to showcase
   some of my work on the front page in a rotating manner. Can it be done? And if
   so, what is the complete beginner way to do it? Many thanks in advance!
 * Louisa
 * Site: [http://www.drawnbyloulou.com](http://www.drawnbyloulou.com)

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-widget-space/#post-6927268)
 * It’s possible to add a full-width image slider into Sela but I’d call it more
   of an intermediate task than a beginner one, because it involves making a child
   theme and some theme-file edits, since there is no full-width widget area in 
   Sela.
 * Making a child theme means your changes won’t be overwritten when you update 
   the theme. If you’re new to child themes, you can explore these guides:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   
   [http://op111.net/53/](http://op111.net/53/) [http://vimeo.com/39023468](http://vimeo.com/39023468)
 * If you’d be comfortable going that route, you would need to find a plugin that
   has a PHP option in addition to a widget or shortcode. You would then add that
   PHP code into this file in your child theme:
    /page-templates/front-page.php
 *  [fibroidcincinnati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fibroidcincinnati/)
 * (@fibroidcincinnati)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-widget-space/#post-6927389)
 * See the thread I created and just closed for this exact solution.
 *  [fibroidcincinnati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fibroidcincinnati/)
 * (@fibroidcincinnati)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-widget-space/#post-6927390)
 * Here is the link
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sela-added-widget-area-alignment-issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sela-added-widget-area-alignment-issue)

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## Tags

 * [front page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/front-page/)
 * [illustrator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/illustrator/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

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 * Last reply from: [fibroidcincinnati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fibroidcincinnati/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-widget-space/#post-6927390)
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