Altering Lifestyle to look like Magazine Theme

[elnath78]

Hello,

I like the Lifestyle style while I prefer the homepage layout of the Magazine theme. I wonder what would be the more simple solution to this while preserving any changed in the case that the theme gets updated by Studiopress. In particular I want the blog summary in the Lifestyle homepage to look like the Magazine theme while preserving its original style 8fonts, colors etc..) I find th ethemes very similar however Lifestyle has the bottom section split in two and other small differences. Hope someone can help, thank you!

[elnath78]

looking in Lifestyle front-page.php file I can guess that I have to replace the following:

	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-bottom-left' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-bottom-right' ) ) {

		echo '<div class="home-bottom">';

		genesis_widget_area( 'home-bottom-left', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-bottom-left widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );

		genesis_widget_area( 'home-bottom-right', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-bottom-right widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );

		echo '</div>';
	
	}

with the following:

	genesis_widget_area( 'home-bottom', array(
		'before' => '<div class="home-bottom widget-area">',
		'after'  => '</div>',
	) );

but will this be preserved when Lifestyle theme will be updated by Studiopress?

[Victor Font]

It's more than just front-page.php. You have to look in functions.php for the widget area declarations and style.css for the widget area formatting. You also have to look deeper in front-page. Blog summaries are derived from the loop, not widget areas.

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[elnath78]

Hello Victor, thanks for clarifying, but what do you mean when you say that I have to look deeper in front-page.php? Also where can I find the loop that you mentioned? Many thanks.

[Victor Font]

I just compared the home pages for themes. They both disable the Genesis loop. So what you did above is correct. You still have to copy over the sidebar registration in functions.php:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'home-bottom',
	'name'        => __( 'Home - Bottom', 'lifestyle' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the bottom section of the homepage.', 'magazine' ),
) );

And the CSS in style.css that you will find in a couple of places.

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[elnath78]

Hello, yes I have fond this part, but how can I make one widget look like another? For instance the #2 (middle) widget in Magazine looks like the bottom widgets in Lifestyle, I want to show in Lifestyle a #2 (middle) widget like Magazine and as #3 bottom left/right a single widget bu that looks like the actual middle, not sure if this is clear, in case I can try to rephrase my question. Thank you!

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