Widgets and front page issues on 2011

  • naderh

    (@naderh)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, I am building a site and have tried using 2011 theme. Problem I have is the front page is a post and there are widgets present which do not appear on the sidebars in the widget panel. I am trying to add RSS and other widgets, but no joy.
    Any ideas how this works? I am sort of familiar with other themes and don’t understand how this one is not working correctly.
    It keeps the Archive and Meta widgets on display although they are not in the side bars.
    Any help would be much appreciated

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  • Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Where are you putting your widgets?

    The widgets you are seeing (if over in the right sidebar) should be placeholders. If you put new widgets in the Main Sidebar, they should go away, and your new widgets should show.

    Unless you are using the showcase template for your front page, then that would be the sidebar

    Thread Starter naderh

    (@naderh)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, Thanks. I am trying to put them on the right and in the given side bars. I have tried various ones in various side/footer bars and none of them seem to appear. The only was out of it at this moment in time is I have made my front page as a page and not a post. No widgets appear on any of the pages!

    Thread Starter naderh

    (@naderh)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, sorry my mistake. I added a test text widget and as you mentioned it appeared and the other went away. However, I can’t seem to add a RSS one in there and have left the front page as Page rather than post for now.
    Let me know or any other ideas.
    By the way I am using the main side bar and have tried it in others. Seem to be the RSS that not showing at all.

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Ah, that’s different. BY default in 2011, single post views, and pages do not show sidebars.

    To add one back in, go to pages->all pages

    Find the page you want to add a sidebar to, and click quick edit

    Select sidebar template from the template dropdown, and save it.

    You can also assign templates from the edit page view, over on the right

    Also, if you are using the default RSS widget, that is for displaying RSS feed from another site. Have you configured it properly by adding in a feed URL? If not, it would probably come up blank

    Thread Starter naderh

    (@naderh)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, Thank you. I’ll have a go now.
    Thanks again

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