Creating a second home page

[rogue]

I'm not good with all the terminology so maybe it's been said here before, but I am looking for an easy way to create a second new home page that is able to utilize widgets and also use the sidebar space different than the original home page. Is that possible?

[Christoph]

Hi,

you can't really have two home pages but you can create a second (third, fourth...) page that uses widget areas.

1. Register new widget areas
http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/register-widget-area/
2. Create a page template

http://www.carriedils.com/custom-page-template-genesis/
http://yivva.com/create-custom-page-template-genesis/

Output the widget areas in the page template (you can use the front-page.php of your theme as guideline)
3. Assign the page template to a page in the WordPress Page Editor.
4. Add content to the widget areas
5. Style with css as necessary

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[rogue]

Thanks so much. I did create page templates but I've come up with a jerry-rigged system using a plugin that assigns content in widget areas to certain pages. I'm not great with coding so it's solved a headache for me. It's called Widget Logic.

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