Adding a widget on front page only

johni33
August 23, 2012 at 11:00 am #5508

I’d like to add a recent posts widget for my bbPress forum on the front page of my site,

I’ve done this by dropping it on one of the action hooks and it works fine on the front page. (I don’t want the widget in the sidebar)

however tihs method means that the widget is still visible when I go to the forum itself which isn’t what I want.

I’d like to find a way of displaying this widget only on the front page so how can I do that?

http://www.cpsarc.com
ronangelo
August 23, 2012 at 12:17 pm #32087
install the widget logic plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/screenshots/

use the code
```
is_home()
```
Anonymous
August 23, 2012 at 10:55 pm #32088

A slightly easier alternative is the the GUI interface for the widget logic plugin called Widget Logic Visual plugin.

It allows you to specify which page plugins appear on

Anonymous
August 25, 2012 at 1:49 pm #32089

BTW,

which action hook did you use? There are specific action hooks for the homepage only; then you don’t need to use widget logic.

johni33
August 26, 2012 at 9:15 am #32090

I used graphene_top_content in header.php which places my widget just under the slider which is fine.

I see some hooks for homepage panes, I’ll give them a try

Anonymous
August 29, 2012 at 2:39 pm #32091

How did it work?

Martin