Adding widgets/categories posts on front page

Hi!

Will add this to the list of possible features for the future, thanks for the feedback! You can see the current list here.

For now what you could do is go to Theme Options > Sidebars > Create a new one, for example “front-widgets” as ID.

Then add this in index.php with a child theme where you want it:

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'front-widgets' ); ?>

Or if you only want it to appear on the very first page, so that it disappears if someone goes to page 2 for example, do:

<?php if ( is_home() && !is_paged() ): ?>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'front-widgets' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Another excellent response. Thank you for your detailed insight Alex, already bought several of your themes and am a big fan of your work.

Cheers! ??

Just to let you know: I am no longer involved in any theme-selling. I left the team completely mid-august 2013. Haven’t looked back but have heard support has not been so good…

I kind of got that idea… I had bought several themes from you guys, and then I noticed that you were the only one doing support…and now you left… I haven’t bought any since then, but I stumbled on your site and like your work… there are a lot of wp designers that leave things “half-ass”… not here! Great work.

Thank you.

Hi Alex,

Thank you for your great and lovely theme ??

I wanted to know what if I want to add widgets only front page in 2 boxed columns or 1 big image & article on the left & the few more with small thumbnails and title on the left of the middle content area showing like “more from category”? What code changes should I make in the above. I guess this would add more looks like a magazine to your theme.