Home page widget – multi column

[Kais]

Hi Bill

The Forward theme has a widget that includes address business hours and a location map. It is nicely responsive.

Is there a way to create a multi-column widget either 2 or 3 columns that we can add html or text to. My hope is to create some content on the home page for SEO purposes. Do you know of a plugin that might be suitable?

Thanks

Kais

[Bill Robbins]

Hello Kais,

Good question there. What I would probably do is add a BlackStudio TinyMCE Widget. It’s a plugin that adds in a new widget using the visual editor from your pages/posts. It’s a bit friendlier than a straight text widget, though you can use those as well.

Then you can use CSS to make the widget full width instead of just one column. Here’s how to do that:

1. Go to your theme options page and choose the Advanced tab.
2. Scroll down to the Custom CSS box and add this:

   
   #home-widgets .widget_text.widget {
   	width: 100%;
   }
   
   #home-widgets .widget_black_studio_tinymce {
   	width: 100%;
   }
   

3. Update your settings.

The top style there is for a standard text widget; the second for the plugin.

See how that works for you,
Bill

[Bill Robbins]

Glad that did the trick for you 🙂

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