Page 2 of pagination repeats all front page widget areas

Hi Wes

Hey, I think this applies to all themes so I’m posting in general.

On the Elevate theme, the pagination at the bottom goes to /page/2/ but repeats the featured image and all the widget areas from the front page.

Is there a way to have the second page eliminate all the front page widget areas (but keep the sidebar from the bottom loop section?

One page 2 and above, I think it should just be the loop with the next set of articles starting at the top.

I’ve added this function to the front-page.php to limit the bottom category to just a single one.

/** Replace the standard loop with our custom loop */
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_do_custom_loop' );
 
function child_do_custom_loop() {
 
    global $paged; // current paginated page
    global $query_args; // grab the current wp_query() args
    $args = array(
        'cat' => 35, // only this category 
        'paged' => $paged, // respect pagination
    );
 
    genesis_custom_loop( wp_parse_args($query_args, $args) );
 
}

thoughts? help?