Replacing Primary sidebar on front page

[mjcollins]

I'm using the Going Green theme and I'm trying to replace the Primary Sidebar only on the front page with a custom Sidebar. I am a real newbie to coding etc but do understand that I need to register a sidebar and then put code somewhere to activate.

I would appreciate help on:

- The code I need to use to do this

- Where precisely I need to put the code

- Also - if anyone can point me in the direction of reading material on how to generally modify themes using coding that would be great.

Apologies if this sounds basic, but I have been going around in circles in the forums. Thanks! Mike.

http://www,youririshheritage.com

[Brad Dalton]

Whats the difference between the default primary sidebar and what you want on the home page?

Have you tried the Genesis Layout Extra's plugin?

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[mjcollins]

The difference I want is:

Static Home Page: Sidebar has NO email signup at top (it is contained in page content instead)

All other pages: Sidebar has email signup at top.

(www.youririshheritage.com homepage shows what I dont want at the moment!)

Thanks - Mike.

[Brad Dalton]

You could simply install the Widget Logic plugin and add a conditional tag to the widget you want displayed based on these conditions.

Another option, if using a static page as your front page is to install the Simple Sidebars plugin and create a custom sidebar which can be selected for use on any page.

If you're not using a static page as your front page, then the Widget Logic plugin is the best solution.

Use:

is_home   displays the widget on the home page only

or

!is_home  displays on all pages excluding the home page

Use:

 is_front_page   if using a static page as your front page.

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[mjcollins]

I used Widget logic as you suggested - which should work in theory as follows (?) - I am using a static frontpage:
is_front_page should display the email widget on the front page only BUT the widget is still displaying on all pages
then I tried !is_front_page which should display on all except front page BUT is is now not displaying widget on any pages.

Not sure whats going on - but feels like I'm almost there.

[Brad Dalton]

Try is_home use the page for the home page which you can grab from the source code and use it like this:

is_page('007')

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[mjcollins]

That works - I used

!is_page('021')
to exclude widget from the homepage.

I assume that 21 is a static address for that page?

Thanks a lot for your help, Mike.

[Brad Dalton]

Affirmative Mike. It's the unique i.d for that page which you can view in the source code.

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