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This is great, THANK YOU! I’ve put it in and it’s working – What do I have to do to remove the posts from showing up and just have the widget area? Thanks again
Have you considered using a static Page as your site’s front page via Settings > Reading and putting your desired widget’s content in that static Page?
This worked splendidly. Thanks so much! How difficult would it be to add a responsive section below this with 4 widgets? Similar to what I’ve done here: http://kimroossien.com/ below the slider, but she’s looking to switch the design to sixteen nine. Here’s our current test site: http://kimroossien.com/test/ where you can see I’ve already added the slideshow area using your instructions above.
2) Drag a ‘Genesis – Featured Posts’ widget in the ‘Home Featured’ widget bar. Set it to show 4 posts and select ‘below-home-featured’ for the thumbnail size.
Thank you so much for this added section Sridhar. I’m SO close. Unfortunately for this particular site I need each image to link to a specific category. In my previous theme I included separate widget areas with featured post widgets in each only showing 1 most recent post from a particular category. I thought maybe I could use the code you’ve given above and tweak it a bit to make it work for 4 separate widgets each showing 1 post from a category and it nearly works perfectly other than the title. If I add a title to each widget it seems to push each image (and it’s title) over and down slightly and for the life of me I can’t figure out what CSS to adjust to fix that titling. I’ve currently got the 4 widgets with titles in case you’re able to take a peek and see if it’s just a quick adjustment to include those titles in your perfectly responsive code. I would be ever so grateful if you could take a look. I’ve spent all day and seem to be stumped on this one.
Thank you again for you quick reply to my tweet!
This is great! What would I have to change to make it show up on all pages and not just the homepage?
Provided the answer here: https://twitter.com/srikat/status/397937270503649280
This is great, THANK YOU! I’ve put it in and it’s working – What do I have to do to remove the posts from showing up and just have the widget area? Thanks again
Have you considered using a static Page as your site’s front page via Settings > Reading and putting your desired widget’s content in that static Page?
This worked splendidly. Thanks so much! How difficult would it be to add a responsive section below this with 4 widgets? Similar to what I’ve done here: http://kimroossien.com/ below the slider, but she’s looking to switch the design to sixteen nine. Here’s our current test site: http://kimroossien.com/test/ where you can see I’ve already added the slideshow area using your instructions above.
1) Add this in functions.php: https://gist.github.com/srikat/6857133/raw/a7dac0079da39e38a7954d3a6a4bb6b1468ae2f3/gistfile2.php
2) Drag a ‘Genesis – Featured Posts’ widget in the ‘Home Featured’ widget bar. Set it to show 4 posts and select ‘below-home-featured’ for the thumbnail size.
3) Add this in style.css: https://gist.github.com/srikat/6857133/raw/724f1c6bffd8565c6ac4839cdfefa62c5e902fca/gistfile3.css
Sample Result: http://i.imgur.com/MS89mTV.png
Thank you so much for this added section Sridhar. I’m SO close. Unfortunately for this particular site I need each image to link to a specific category. In my previous theme I included separate widget areas with featured post widgets in each only showing 1 most recent post from a particular category. I thought maybe I could use the code you’ve given above and tweak it a bit to make it work for 4 separate widgets each showing 1 post from a category and it nearly works perfectly other than the title. If I add a title to each widget it seems to push each image (and it’s title) over and down slightly and for the life of me I can’t figure out what CSS to adjust to fix that titling. I’ve currently got the 4 widgets with titles in case you’re able to take a peek and see if it’s just a quick adjustment to include those titles in your perfectly responsive code. I would be ever so grateful if you could take a look. I’ve spent all day and seem to be stumped on this one.