custom page or post template with custom widget areas in body

[jhguynn]

I use Genesis Extender, and love the freedom it gives me to design a custom static homepage for any of my Genesis sites.

I'm currently thinking through how to design a 5 page or so mini site, and I want all pages to be based on the same page template: right sidebar with a body area that is also widgetized in a way that I determine.

Can someone please point me to a tutorial on how to do this? Brad Dalton - perhaps you?

PS: The method doesn't have to involve Genesis Extender, I mentioned that earlier only to describe what I'm after.

[nutsandbolts]

You can actually do this pretty easily - once you decide what widget areas you want to use, you would just need to create a template that specifies the content/sidebar layout and calls the widget areas. It would be just like a home.php but with a different name, and you would select it from the template dropdown within the page editor.

Here is a tutorial that explains in more detail: http://journalxtra.com/easyguides/how-to-create-genesis-page-template-widgets/

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[Brad Dalton]

Here's 2 templates with widgets:

Flexible Responsive Widgets Template for Genesis

Team Members Staff Authors or User Profile Page Template for Genesis

You can remove the line of code which forces full width and removes the sidebar

add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );

Another option would be to use a front-page.php or home.php template as a page template from any theme.

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