Sidebar on home page

[ajmiller]

I want a sidebar on the right of my home page which will contain a calendar and a subscribe link to my mailing list.

http://www.belmontstudios.co.uk

The problem I’m having is when I add the layout options as ‘sidebars on right’ to my home page I get the ‘recent posts’ widget from my blog which I don’t want.

I’m getting confused somewhere along the line so any help appreciated as to how I can have sidebars on each page (main and blog) with different content – one for the home page and another for the blog.

Thanks for any help.

[scrambler]

you may have default widgets already put in the sidebars.

the content of the sidebar is managed in Appearance > Widgets.

Open the primary and secondary sidebar areas and remove any widget in there you don’t want, and place the ones you do want

[ajmiller]

Ok – I think I’ve managed to do it using the primary and secondary sidebar areas and turning one or the other off on the per page settings.

I just need to separate the widgets now with white space rather than having one long widget area on the home page.

http://www.belmontstudios.co.uk

Thanks for your answer which made me look a bit closer.

[scrambler]

To separate the widget, use a background color on the widgets themselves in Main Options > Sidebar & Layout > Individual widgets > Individual Widget BG instead of the Sidebar widget area (  Main Options > Sidebar & Layout > Primary widget area > Primary widget area BG)

You can then increase the space using the individual widget Top and bottom margin boxes

[ajmiller]

Thanks Scrambler for a quick reply and for sorting that out. Very much appreciated

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