How to customize locked widget areas

  • Resolved vmls23

    (@vmls23)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hey there,

    I’ve recently created a website using the Lightning theme, but now that the dust is settling and I am beginning to get a little better and designing the site, one thing I cannot get to work is to do more advanced customization of the themes initial layout.

    There is a footer divided into 3 separate areas. All 3 footer widget areas are locked in the Apperances > Widgets overview for me, and while I can create new blocks for each one, I cannot remove any.

    Frankly, I don’t have content for 3 individual footer columns, and it would look more elegant to just have 1 footer ranging the entire space instead. Since the footers are locked though, I guess can’t disable them. Widget Disable also failed. Is there anything else I can do, like another plugin?

    I’ve managed to dig out some footer.php in the files and tried to solve the issue by exchanging the value for footer areas from 3 to 1, which didn’t do anything. Which isnt bad coz the website didnt crash and I could undo the change, but I since I just started with all of this, I dont feel comfortable editing the code directly anyways. Anything I can do?

    Cheers

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  • Theme Author Hidekazu Ishikawa

    (@kurudrive)

    1 year, 7 months ago

    @vmls23 hi.

    Probably you are looking for is below right?

    child theme functions.php etc

    add_filter(
	'lightning_footer_widget_area_count',
	function() {
		return 1;
	}
);
    Thread Starter vmls23

    (@vmls23)

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hey!

    Thank you for your response, I very much appreciate it.

    I am very much a beginner with website design and am a bit scared to touch the theme file editor.

    Is there an easy, non-destructive way of changing the theme from 3 footer widgets areas to only 1 footer widget area?

    And another question that has come up recently if you don’t mind, is there a way to increase the possible slides in the home page slider (e.g. more than 3)?

    Best

    Theme Author Hidekazu Ishikawa

    (@kurudrive)

    1 year, 7 months ago

    @vmls23

    Yes. you are right.
    You should not customize from the theme editor.

    You can use child theme.

    https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/

    1. make below files

    lightning-child
    * style.css
    * functions.php

    2. style.css

    /*
Theme Name: Lightning Child Sample
Theme URI: 
Template: lightning
Description: 
Author: 
Tags: 
Version: 0.6.0
*/

    3. functions.php

    <?php
// Change number of footer widget area
add_filter(
	'lightning_footer_widget_area_count',
	function() {
		return 1;
	}
);
// Change max number of slide
add_filter(
	'lightning_top_slide_count_max',
	function() {
		return 5;
	}
);

    4. zip “lightning-child” folder and upload your WordPress from appearance -> themes

    5. Activate Lightning Child Sample theme

    Thread Starter vmls23

    (@vmls23)

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Dear Mr. Ishikawa,

    Thank you so much!
    Since I’m new to WordPress i had not heard of the child theme function before.
    I followed your instructions and was able to change both aspects exactly as I wished. Thank you very much for the detailed explanation, I greatly appreciate it.

    Theme Author Hidekazu Ishikawa

    (@kurudrive)

    1 year, 6 months ago

    Your welcome 🙂

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