How to add widgets to custom widget areas

[naviter]

Hi all.

Maybe I’m just too new to this but I can’t seem to understand how to add different Sidebars to different Pages in the Alyeska theme.

I have created two custom Widget Areas but I don’t see how I can place Widgets on those custom Areas. All widgets are placed on the default Sidebar which is not what we need.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

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[Jason Bobich]

Hello,

When creating each custom widget area, that is when you also designate which pages it gets applied to. Checkout this video from your documentation, which should clear things up for you: http://vimeo.com/32471583

[naviter]

Thanks. My original question was actually inaccurate. How do I *edit* the Content of the added widget area? With links to posts and download links for example?

Thanks in advance.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by naviter.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by naviter.

[naviter]

Oops. Let me answer my own question. New Widget Area was at the bottom of the page. Need to get my sight (or brain) checked .

Sorry to have waisted your time on this! Hope it helps someone else.

[Jason Bobich]

Yup, you got it. So every time you add a custom widget area from Appearance > Widget Areas, it will automatically get added to your Widget page when you go to Appearance > Widgets. And on this page, all custom widget areas get added alphabetically after all of default “Location” widget areas.

For anyone else having issues with figuring out the theme’s widget area concepts, here is a complete overview along with video tutorials:

http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/widget-areas-for-the-end-user/

• Video #1: Locations
• Video #2: Collapsible Vs Fixed
• Video #3: Custom Widget Areas
• Video #4: Floating Widget Areas

[bluelf]

It seems that the conditional tags are broken, I can add widgets to the default sidebar for example but if I specify a conditional tag for example “is_homepage()” the widget does not appear on the sidebar at all…

[Jason Bobich]

Are you meaning to use is_home() or is_front_page() possibly?

[bluelf]

Sorry! I meant is_home() not homepage
neither is_home() or is_front_page() or any of my other conditionals
have been working since I upgraded the theme if I add a widget without a conditional it works fine
if I add one with one it does not show up in the sidebar at all. If I remove the conditional from the widget works like a charm… Putting it back does not show up on the page…

[Jason Bobich]

I’m a little foggy on the context in which we’re talking about these conditionals. Are you using the widget logic plugin? Can I see a link to the page where the is_home conditional isn’t working?

[bluelf]

Odd seems to be working now that I turned off Ajax Calendar
Yes I am using widget logic.

[Jason Bobich]

I’ve never used the plugin, but your Ajax Calendar probably alters the main WP query without restoring it properly. You may be able to get around it by having that plugin’s widget come after whatever widget you’re trying to put the widget logic into.

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