How to put widgets onto a page, rather than a sidebar

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  trinitariantheodicy · Member · Dec 31, 2011 at 5:25 am

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  Greetings –
  The Manifest theme has an archives PAGE which I quite like.
  But in setting up my new blog, I’m only allowed to drag widgets to what will be either a sidebar or footer.
  How do I create the same PAGE containing widgets as I find in Manifest?
  Many thanks!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 31, 2011 at 8:55 am

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  I can’t see a “page” containing widgets in Manifest in the demo. Have you got a link to where you saw this? Manifest only has two widget areas and those are in the footer.

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  trinitariantheodicy · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 3:42 am

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  At the top of the Manifest “Demo” are 2 page titles, one of which is “Archive”.
  On that page are the widgets that normally appear as a column on most themes.
  I would like to recreate that Manifest “Archive” page.

  Please advise.
  Thankyou.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 5:49 am

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  That isn’t a widget. That is a page using the “archives” page template. You create the archives page, then in the attributes module to the right of the text area in the page editor window, you select “archive” as the page template and then publish your page.

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  trinitariantheodicy · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 9:13 pm

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  Wonderful!
  Thank you so much…I’d have never figured that out…

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 10:04 pm

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  You are welcome.