Front Page widget areas on other pages?

[mstureda]

Hello,

I'm using the Magazine Pro theme and have been running into this problem that I have been trying to solve for a few days now.
It's getting a bit frustrating so after not finding anything helpful by searching, I decided to create a post and ask if anyone has any tips for me.

My problem:
I have the front page's "Home-top" widget area slotted with a "Genesis Featured Posts" widget. Same widget slotted in the Home-middle and Home-bottom areas displaying different post categories.
Everything looks fine so far. The featured images have the little date overlay on them etc. Great! Basically looks the same as the front page of the Demo.

Now I want to use this page layout on another page with other widgets in the Home-top, Home-middle and Home-bottom widget. Or rather I want to use the top, middle, bottom widget AREAS on other pages than the front page. I want to use the same Genesis featured posts widgets, but displaying different categories on other pages that are linked from my menu. Probably leaving out the home top and home bottom and just use the home-middle area to display posts from the specified category in the same nice formatting that is used with the Home-Middle widget area on the front page. But I can't get this to work.

Is there a "simple" way to do this? I've tried searching but can't figure out how to do it. Can I do this with a plugin of some sorts? Or do I need to contract someone to create a new page tenplate for me?

Currently I use the plugin "Shortcode any widget" to put the "Genesis Featured Posts" widget on a page to just display all the posts from that category. But How do I get it to format as it does when the widget is used in the Home-middle widget area?

I hope you understand what I mean. Got a bit long winded 🙂

TL;DR: How do I use widget areas that are "locked" to front page on a different page?

Thank you for your time.

[Andrea Rennick]

Probably leaving out the home top and home bottom and just use the home-middle area to display posts from the specified category in the same nice formatting that is used with the Home-Middle widget area on the front page.

It would be a lot less work to just use css to style the existing category archive pages to look like the home widget. It's already pulling the data you want.

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[Brad Dalton]

Another option is to copy the front-page.php file, rename it and modify the code for use as a page template. Not simple but certainly doable.

Or do I need to contract someone to create a new page template for me?

This template i coded for a client does just that.

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