Good Morning Mark,
You can do that if you’d like to. Copy over the page-home.php file from the original theme to the child theme. Then edit it and look for this section:
</div><!-- #home-top -->
Right above that add in this:
<div id="testimony-widget">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'testimony' ); ?>
</div>
and save your changes. Next either edit or create a functions.php file in your child theme. Make sure there is a
function testimony_sidebar_register() {
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => __('Testimony', 'organizedthemes'),
'id' => 'testimony',
'description' => __('Below the slider widget area.', 'organizedthemes'),
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s shadow">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h4 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h4>'
) );
}
add_action( 'init', 'testimony_sidebar_register' );
and save your changes. That should hook create a new widget area in your widget admin and also output it on the front end of our site.
Last up you’ll need to add something like this to the child theme’s style.css file:
@media only screen and (min-width: 1024px) {
#testimony-widget {
float: left;
display: inline;
width: 630px;
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
}
Hope that helps out.
Have a fantastic weekend,
Bill