I am trying to understand the relationship between WordPress (default), a theme e.g. Astra or OceanWP, and a page builder e.g. Elementor or Divi? In particular, with regards to widgets.
WordPress comes with a built-in page editor, a default theme and some widgets, e.g. text editor, blog posts. I believe the theme defines where the widgets can go, e.g. in footer, header or sidebars.
But I am confused by the fact that themes (like Astra) and page builders (like Elementor) both seem to provide widgets. Is this correct? I would have thought a page builder would just use widgets from theme?
I am trying to understand if there is overlap in what is provided by WordPress by default, in a theme, and with a page builder, and how they inter-relate. I would be most grateful if someone could please explain.
Thanks,
Ashley.
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I am currently using the Avada Theme. I want to create a multilingual site - for that I installed the Plugin called "Polylang". I want to have two sites - one in English, and one in German. Unfortunately with this plugin the Avada theme does not show the footer that is set in the layout options in the theme for the German version of my site.
I also tried to use the WordPress Footer widgets, but with those I was not able to display my footer as I wanted to. But maybe there is a simple solution with the footer widgets.
I want to display the footer like that - simple as that:
The texts are linking to different site. Does anyone got a solution?
Is it possible to display woocommerce widgets on pages that are not part of Woocommerce?
You can probably find a plugin to do this, but if you want to get your hands a little dirty you can do a bit of theme development work (you might want to do it as a child theme first though)
You can create a template page https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/
and then include a wigitised area on that page
https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes
I am new into the arena of WordPress. I started learning about how to create website using WordPress. I am wondering if a page layout can be fully designed and customized by using a page builder, why i need to use a theme. Isn't theme is used to define how my contents are going to be shown in pages ?
A theme is actually a collection of files that control the way the site is displayed and to some degree how it behaves. While page builders typically allow you control of some aspects of the visual interface, you cannot have a Wordpress site without an active theme.
I have created one website by WordPress. I have one sidebar that I want apply to several pages. I read a lot of tutorials but I could not find any solutions? How can I do this??
Solution 1
Modify your theme - create custom page template and register new sidebar. It's pretty well documented on WordPress.org
Page templates
Sidebars
Solution 2
If you are not WP developer, this is simper and more user friendly solution for you.
Install Widget Logic plugin.
Add widgets to sidebar via WordPress administration.
Click on widget and specify conditions. For example you can restrict displaying of widget for pages in specific category: is_category(array(5,9,10,11))
For more condition examples read Widget Logic - Other notes section
If you are using avada theme you don't need to do anything, there is already option available for selecting sidebar on any page, so you can choose one sidebar for many page you wish.
If you didn't find Fusion Page Options in edit page screen than you have check your screen options.
I have installed the MediaFlux theme from Mojo-Themes on my website at www.sjsueconomics.org. Here are my questions:
As you can see on the website, the blue menu at the very top of the page currently displays Page Titles. I want to display External Links there instead. How do I modify the code to do it?
The main menu (red text below the logo) currently displays Categories. Without changing the style or appearance, I want to display the Page Titles instead. How do I do it?
Thanks in advance!
The company you paid for the theme provides support, not a community which has no access to this product.
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com ; customizing a paid theme while providing no code (and having no right to provide any code) is not an appropriate subject for a StackOverflow question
if the theme supports custom menus, there ought to be a Menus page in the admin, under Appearances probably, or perhaps Settings. Go there, then create a menu with the pages or categories you want, then tell the theme to use the menu you created instead of the default. If the theme doesn't have such a feature, you'll need a programmer.