How to create custom page template and a new widget area below the main page content?

[Chutima Jackson]

Hi

I'm very new to this and not a technical person. I need help on my website http://bestsyntheticoilguide.com I am using Balance theme. I have 4 pages on my primary navigation menu. I have my home page article (What is the best synthetic oil?) as a static front page as this is my most visited page. I want to change the others 3 pages (motorcycle oil, SAE & API, Oil Change) to display under the home page content as featured pages #2, #3 and #4 with image and a little bit of text. I want it to look similar to the Balance theme demo but the different would be they are pages not posts.

My question is I would like to add custom content below my static page, how can I modify the theme to create a custom page template with a new widget area below the main page content? This would allow me to add “Featured Page” widgets to that widget area to display content from additional pages. Do you have a code snippet you can share with me for this?

Your help would be very much appreciated. Please help me. Thank you very much.
Chutima

http://bestsyntheticoilguide.com

[Susan]

As you posted this a while back, I hope you were able to resolve your issue. If it is resolved, please mark it "resolved", and we will close it.

If you are still having issues, report back here, and I will try to escalate.

[Author]

Posts