Adding widget to Front Page
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Hi, I have just taken over administering a wordpress.com site (www.melbreakcommunities.wordpress.com) and would like to add a widget to the home page (Upcoming Events). This works fine for other pages but nothing shows on the home page. I have “default template” selected (hence sidebar). The same applies to other widgets (i.e. they work on other pages but not the home). There are no other widgets in play. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
Richard
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Widgets now have “visibility” settings so we can select which pages they display on. See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility -
OK thanks for getting back to me. I have tried the visibility setting with “Page = Home” and this does not help. (I would like the widget to appear only on the home page).
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You already have the follow blog widget in the footer and that ought to mean you can place any other widget there too.
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I’d like the Upcoming Events to appear in the sidebar. Would the use of a widget in the footer be inhibiting the sidebar display?
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Your theme description is here http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyten/ By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/You have 2 choices. Which do you want?
1. All posts on front page with a sidebar.
2. Static front page (no sidebar – no widgets). -
OK thanks. I confess to some confusion about the difference between posts and pages. This is clearing. Slowly. Our site seems to all be static pages with one called “Message Board” that has a “Comments” section embedded that behaves like a blog.
But I am puzzled that I could copy a static page, change the template type to default and it does display the Upcoming Events sidebar widget.
But hey I’ve moved on far enough for the moment and am fine for this thread to be closed, I hope my next intervention will be more focussed.
Thanks again.
richard
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