I have a web site on Wordpress using my custom made theme, I need to put a module with text and images on the frontpage of my theme which should be managed from the admin panel. I've read about widgets but I don't quite get how can I put them anywhere not just in sidebars, I don't have sidebars on my frontpage. any help would be appreciated.
Widget compatible sidebar in Wordpres it is just position on the page where widget could be placed. It is not necessary to be in the left or right column of the site. I could be anywhere(header, footer, middle part). Look on the default theme how sidebars created in it. Default theme has 7 or 8 positions(sidebars) for widgets accessable from admin. Also there are lots of tutorials on how to add sidebar into theme
http://www.blogohblog.com/adding-extra-sidebar-to-your-wordpress-theme/,
http://www.balkhis.com/web-designs-resources/how-to-add-a-dynamic-sidebar-in-wordpress/
and many others.
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i am using neve theme + elementor, and i am trying to add widgets to my footer, but nothing shows. I am going to Appearance>Widgets>then add text and images to all footer columns - 1,2,3,4 respectively and when i hit update, and refresh the site, nothing shows.
I have checked this answer here but i have not used any code in my case(only drag and drop with elementor), so the answer does not apply to me.
i have tried to disable elementor and all other plugins, but same thing, nothing shows.
if i go to appearance>Customize and select widgets this message appears:
Widgets are independent sections of content that can be placed into widgetized areas provided by your theme (commonly called sidebars). Your theme has 5 other widget areas, but this particular page doesn’t display them. You can navigate to other pages on your site while using the Customizer to view and edit the widgets displayed on those pages.
What am i doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated !
L.E SOLUTION : So the solution for this issue (for the beginners of wordpress like me here that could have the same dilemma) is like Daniyal said that before adding widgets to your Header and Footer in the Appearance > Widgets you actually have to design the header/footer in the Appearance > Customize section, by defining through drag and droping which area of the Footer for example Footer 1 is or Footer 2 or so on. Once the areas are defined the widgets added in widgets section will appear in the correct areas defined by the user.
Do you create Footer with elementor?
If you create footer with elementor, so footer widgets not showing and you should drag and drop widget with elementor to footer to show widget
If you don't create footer with elementor, this problem is the Theme
I’ve a problem with my Theme Customize.
I’ve registered 4 widget area in my template, I can see them correctly in the Apparence > Widget panel, but I can’t see them in the Theme Customize, when I click on my Widget section I have the following message instead:
Your theme has 4 widget areas, but this particular page doesn’t display them. You can navigate to other pages on your site while using the Customizer to view and edit the widgets displayed on those pages.
For example, i want to use sidebar at other pages, but it only shows on the shop page.
Any help will be really appreciated!
Thank you all.
can someone explan to me how to insert a widget in my header ? I want to be able to put a slider with text in my header..Normally I only use widgets on the website and that's it...
Can you describe a little more about your WordPress site? What theme are you using?
Unless you're comfortable editing the PHP of your theme, if your theme doesn't include options for a widget block in your header you might have difficulty doing this without the help of a developer.
If the theme doesn't provide this functionality out of the box, a developer would either need to add a widget block or add the slider as static content into your header by adding PHP code to your theme files.
I am trying to add a custom sidebar to be on the single page while the entire site uses the custom sidebar. I am creating it with WP visual tools and assign the custom sidebar to the page i need however it shows as disabled. Plese let me know if i am doing something wrong. I searched forums for a while and saw that some people enable their custom sidebars by modifying code. It looks to me like it can be done with visual editor (like i did below) plus i have no access to the server.
I create a new sidebar for my theme
I go to widgets and set up a picture to my widget
then i assign the sidebar to the desired page
after if i go back to widgets it shows me that custom sidebar has nothing in it and that its disabled bc its not used anywhere on the site
The problem was, that when creating a sidebar, I did not enter anything for the slug (thinking it was not necessary). Creating a value for a slug resolved the problem
I have installed Mantra as my WP theme, can't find help to this two issues.
1) Sidebars are not showing. I have a child theme with funtions.php and stylesheet.php folders. The theme comes with possibilities for 1-4 columns and sidebars left, right or both. I was explained can't have sidebars in the frontpage or as theme calls it, presentation page. If I could still add them, I would be extremely happy. However, my main issue is, I can't get sidebars to display in my post pages. I removed the view of pages and I'm using Categories instead since my page is news based. The main theme has sidebar php and action as been called into my child theme. Sidebars do exist since I can insert in the footer. It's just sidebars that are not working. I use for choosing where to display the Jetpack widget visibility. I need the sidebars so visitors can navigate my site between categories and want to display other content as well.
2) I have created an image, to the exact size theme advises and as per theme, it will be posted as is if the image has the exact measurements. However, no matter what I do, it does not displays as is and keeps cropping my image in half when I try to submit it.
This may help you to solve sidebar & crop issue
http://wordpress.org/support/theme/mantra