Home Page Template not Recognizing Added Sidebars

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  • June 2, 2016 at 11:51 am #18233
    leah
    Customer

      Epik and the Genesis Framework have been absolutely great. I’ve been able to add additional widgets through the Genesis Simple Sidebars plugin for additional feature and highlight areas on the front page. I’ve used the same plugin for creating new widget areas on new template pages throughout the site. It’s never been an issue.

      For some reason, however, I just tried to add several new widgets into the page_home.php template, and for some reason, they’re not being recognized on the home page. I’ve added sidebars before the same way, and they show up just fine. I’ve also added them to the functions.php file, and they show up just fine in the widgets window. Any suggestions? The website is http://linklings.com/.

      June 3, 2016 at 1:07 pm #18236
      Wes
      Moderator

        I’m sure it’s a small fix, I’d just have to take a look at the backend in order to see what’s going on.

        Is it possible to create a temporary login?

        June 13, 2016 at 11:22 am #18311
        leah
        Customer
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          June 14, 2016 at 9:10 pm #18320
          Wes
          Moderator
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            June 15, 2016 at 1:32 pm #18330
            leah
            Customer
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              June 16, 2016 at 9:20 pm #18342
              Wes
              Moderator

                Ok after about 30 minutes I figured it out. If you’re trying to edit your HOME page, you would need to edit the home.php file. It looks like you added code to your page_home.php file, and that code isn’t being shown because it’s not the Home page…..it’s just a template file that you can assign to a Page.

                The Home.php file is what WP recognizes as the home page automatically unless you override that in your Settings. You can either copy some of the code from the page_home.php file and transfer that over to your home.php file, or you could change the Front Page Displays in Settings > Reading to your template file.

                June 17, 2016 at 1:44 pm #18360
                leah
                Customer

                  This was definitely one of those “Doh!” moments. Thank you so much for taking the time to look it through. I appreciate it greatly. I absolutely love this theme, it looks amazing.

                  June 17, 2016 at 1:58 pm #18361
                  Wes
                  Moderator

                    You’re Welcome!

                    Post a link to the Showcase whenever you’re done – https://appfinite.com/forum/showcase/ and I’ll also share on Twitter.

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