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How create another widget area on front-page, after blog-entries?

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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › General Discussion › How create another widget area on front-page, after blog-entries?

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Tagged: home bottom, widget area

  • This topic has 5 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 6 years, 6 months ago by Dan-cer.
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  • December 3, 2018 at 8:35 am #224798
    Dan-cer
    Member

    Hi there,
    with the help of Brad and others I got some widget areas on my frontpage already.
    They are

    • 'Home - Top',
    • 'Home - Middle',
    • 'Home - Bottom Left' and
    • 'Home - Bottom Right'.

    The last two of them are containing the recent blog-post excerpts.

    Now I want to have another widget area below. I tried to name them 'Home - Bottom', writing code into front-page.php, functions.php and style.css.

    But that doesn't work, because 'Home Bottom' is the class for the existing 'Bottom Left and Right', I suppose.

    How can I solve this? What suggestions you have?

    Thank you in advance!

    warm regards,

    Rainer

    https://www.rainerklar.de
    December 3, 2018 at 9:12 am #224800
    Dan-cer
    Member

    I don't really need 'Home - Middle'. Is it possible to change it to
    'Home - Middle Left' and 'Home - Middle Right'?
    So I could move the post-excerpts to the Middle and use the Bottom area - without 'Left' and 'Right' for any widgets.

    December 3, 2018 at 10:05 am #224802
    Dan-cer
    Member

    Update:
    I just created 'Home - Middle Left' and 'Home - Middle Right' widget areas with

    .home-middle-left,
    .home-middle-right {
    	margin: 0 0%;
    	width: 50%;
    }

    as I had it for the Bottom Left/Right version. In general it is working already as I want, but the two columns are not created yet. I thought 'width: 50%;' will do it as it does with th Bottom version.

    December 3, 2018 at 10:31 am #224804
    Dan-cer
    Member

    UPDATE 2:

    I coded it correctly. But purging cache on CDN server level was needed.
    So all is fine now.

    Have a nice week!!!

    December 3, 2018 at 3:40 pm #224805
    Dan-cer
    Member

    UPDATE 3:

    There still is 1 problem: The 'home-bottom widget-area' doesn't work properly. A widget is visible only when I give it a content-box additionally, and it is not width: 100%, but only placed in a right column.

    It is strange somehow, because columns should only exist in 'Home - Middle Left | Right' widget-area, not below in 'Home - Bottom'.

    Has anybody a suggestion how to solve that?

    December 30, 2018 at 10:47 am #225326
    Dan-cer
    Member

    Update 4:

    The last problems were caused by cache from cloudflare. Now all is fine.

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