Customize widget areas, set up corresponding pages / posts

[stnabor]

hello and good day dear friends,

currently working on a Wordpress-page.


i have a new theme and i need to customize this with the Customizer.

well here in the customizer - i have the following note:

Your theme has 11 other widget areas, but this particular page doesn’t display them.
You can navigate to other pages on your site while using the Customizer to view and edit the widgets displayed on those pages.

and I see the following text
b. Customizing Widgets
Footer Widget Area Column 1
Choose what should display in this footer widget column.


Well - i need to configure the things.

Question do i need to have to set up

a. pages or
b. posts for each widgets and afterwards assign each of the widgets to a page / post!?

Many thanks for any and all help

regards STNabor

[edited by: not2easy at 12:41 pm (utc) on Mar 11, 2022]
[edit reason] syntax: html removed [/edit]

[not2easy]

Hi stnabor and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

The details may vary from one WP theme to another but in general the widgets offer you options to display various things on each page, each post and in sidebars, even headers or footers of your site. You should plan how you want to use these areas and then create your widgets and apply them.

For example, if your theme has a sidebar and you want it to contain a menu or two kinds of menus or an image or an ad you set that up and then it is applied to all pages or posts however you set it. You can preview the changes as you are creating the settings you want.

You can learn more about using widgets from WordPress: [wordpress.org...]

[TorontoBoy]

Not every WP page type may have the widget area you want to use. For example, some one page designs may not have any widget areas at all.

Ensure that the widget area you want is available on the page you chose, otherwise choose another page type. Or try another theme.

[lexipixel]

currently working on a Wordpress-page.

If you're working on the Appearance (using the Customizer) then you're making changes to the Theme that may affect all areas of the Wordpress installation that display the same type of content you're working on.

Do you want the widget to appear in the same place for every URL on this Wordpress website?

If the answer is yes, you need to find a widgetized area of the theme that is used no matter what type of content it's displaying (e.g. - WordPress may use different template files or parts of template files to display a single post, an archive, media, or a static page. A "sidebar" (and the widgets it contains) may not be included in the template for some URLs on the site.

The header and footer areas are usually the same for all URLs...