Use a widget I have on the front page on other pages as well

[Andras]

Hello,

I am working on an Enterprise Pro theme. This theme comes with a great widget on the front page, that lets me fill in info in three nicely separated columns.

I would like to use this widget also on other pages. Is this possible?

[Brad Dalton]

Yes, take the PHP code for the widget and use it in your functions file.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[Andras]

Hi Brad,

Thank you for your reply!

I tried to follow your advice, but you must have meant something else.

I found this in the fron-page.php and copied it into funcitons.php:

function enterprise_home_bottom_widgets() {

genesis_widget_area( 'home-bottom', array(
'before' => '<div class="home-bottom widget-area">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );

}

genesis();

I got the following error message:
Your PHP code changes were rolled back due to an error on line 55 of file wp-content/themes/enterprise-pro/front-page.php. Please fix and try saving again.

Cannot redeclare enterprise_home_bottom_widgets() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/enterprise-pro/functions.php:127)

What should I do different?

[Brad Dalton]

Don't add the genesis(); function but do add the add_action function with hook.

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'enterprise_custom_top_widget' );
function enterprise_custom_top_widget() {

And always use a unique function name.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[Andras]

Thank you Brad! Now I got it right 🙂

The website was also helpful.

[Andras]

Great, I got the three column widget from the front page repeated on some other page. Can I change the text within the widget on the "other page", or will it be always identical to the text in the front page?

[Andras]

Ooops, I can see the widget in every page now. Can I have it on one specific page?

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