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  • Help! I’m going crazy with installing the widgets and sidebars in the right places. I’m using the twenty twelve theme. I have a side bar on every page and cannot place any home widgets at the bottom of the Home page. The theme seems to be able to support both of these. I’m new to all of this – if I’m on the wrong theme, what should I be looking for?

    Thanks

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  • Could you provide a link to your site?

    Thread Starter Miranda59

    (@miranda59)

    It’s:

    archiveswashington.com

    That is not the Twenty Twelve theme. The theme can be found here along with some support. http://themeid.com/responsive-theme/

    Have you checked their documentation on how to do what you want to do?

    Thread Starter Miranda59

    (@miranda59)

    I started with the basic WP “responsive” theme, then tried some others, but I still must be doing something wrong. What I’m looking for is a simple home page with 3 widgets at the bottom and 1 sidebar with maybe 3 widgets. I’m new to all of this and don’t really know the lingo when it comes to searching for a theme. There are so many to choose from.

    Responsive has 3 widgets on the theme’s home page – but you have to select that page under theme options > home page > check enable custom home page. It doesn’t have a sidebar on that home page template but there is a sidebar on other pages/templates.

    Sounds like you need to find a theme that has that if you can’t create the functionality yourself. I would start demoing themes before you install them. See if they have the basic layout you are looking for.

    Here is one that I found that might do what you want. Just click the demo on the right and see. http://wordpress.org/themes/iribbon

    There are many like that. Just look around.

    Thread Starter Miranda59

    (@miranda59)

    Thanks to both of you for the suggestions. I’ll look into each tomorrow. I checked out the iribbon site briefly. Hadn’t seen it before – maybe it’s what I’m looking for – with a dark blue background?

    Thread Starter Miranda59

    (@miranda59)

    Thanks for all the help.

    WPyogi,

    I enabled the home page. However, I want a sidebar on the front page only. I didn’t see how to do that.

    graphical_lore,

    I like the iribbon theme layout but not the banner. Also, I don’t understand all the language below. I’m only looking for 3 widgets – I don’t see that in the list of Elements.

    Just look at themes until you find something that has the look you are looking for in their demo. That are tons to choose from.

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