Outreach – home featured left and right widget

[Lise]

Hi again,

this is the link to the testing site: http://lisehosting.com

On the home page only, I want a home featured left and home featured right to come after the slider which is in the home-featured widget. Right now I have used the sub-footer to try it and see how it looks but the sub-footer widgets show on all pages.

So I need to know how to set up the home featured left and right.

I already registered the 2 widgets in functions.php like this:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'				=> 'home-featured-left',
	'name'			=> __( 'Home Featured Left', 'outreach' ),
	'description'	=> __( 'This is the featured left area on the homepage.', 'outreach' ),
) );

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'				=> 'home-featured-right',
	'name'			=> __( 'Home Featured Right', 'outreach' ),
	'description'	=> __( 'This is the featured right area on the homepage.', 'outreach' ),
) );

but don't know what code to add in home.php to achieve what I want.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Lise

[Lise]

Nevermind, I figured it out using Brad's helpful tutorials here
http://wpsites.net/web-design/add-home-page-widgets/ and this one http://wpsites.net/web-design/adding-duplicating-home-page-widgets-genesis/

Thanks Brad

[rosemcafee]

From this tutorial links you shared (thanks btw) Is it ok to just duplicate the codes for only one widget and insert it in the same registry?

/** Register widget areas */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-featured',
'name' => __( 'Home Featured', 'outreach' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the home featured section.', 'outreach' )
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-featured2',
'name' => __( 'Home Featured', 'outreach' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the home featured section.', 'outreach' )
) );

................................

I know the tutorial registers second widget area but i thought i'd duplicate one widget and position it right after the first. In the outreach theme the home featured widget allows me to insert slider but i wanted to separate it and make another block with the new home featured2 right below it . (not a programmer so forgive me) i dont want to mess up the whole codes for the theme 🙁 I even make my changes just on the css so I'm kinda scared to touch the php.

Please help & thank you.

[Author]

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