Widget Areas not on Homepage

[Arekeon27]

Hello Everyone,

I purchased the backcountry child theme and I have an issue. My home-top widget appears on my static front page but my home-left, home-right, and home-bottom widget areas all appear on my blog page.

http://theweinreview.com/

It seems (based on the demo) that they should automatically appear on the homepage. I noticed the following code in my functions.php:

/** Add home top section to homepage */
add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'backcountry_home_top' );
function backcountry_home_top() {

	if ( is_front_page() && is_active_sidebar( 'home-top' ) ) {
		echo '<div id="home-top">';
		dynamic_sidebar( 'home-top' );
		echo '</div><!-- end #home-top -->';
	}

}

There is no corresponding code for the other three "home" widget areas in my functions.php file so I suspect that may be the cause. How can I move the three widget areas to my static homepage and off my blog page?

Thanks,

Kevin

http://theweinreview.com/

[David Chu]

Hi,
Finger Lakes.. that's in my neighborhood. 😉 Nearly all modern themes are set up so that their Home widgets will work when you choose "latest Posts" for Home, not on a static page. To be sure, one can use a static home page, but this will cut out much of your homepage functionality. So that's the first part of your puzzle.

Your display of code is helpful, in that I can see where "is_front_page" will work on a static homepage, but this is the exception nowadays.

Static pages on home are going out of style. But knowing that people may want a static block of text on home, developers will often provide a widget where one can stuff in some text. One can re-code a bunch of stuff to "Frankenstein" widgets to appear on a static page, but that takes some developer skills.

I hope that helps understand the theme a bit.

Dave

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[Arekeon27]

Dave,

Thanks for the explanation. That does help me understand much better. Sounds like I have to re-think my design a little for this child theme or create Frankenstein widgets. I really appreciate the explanation of the theme!

Kevin

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