{"id":208,"date":"2016-03-17T02:21:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T02:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wplook.com\/docs\/?p=208"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:12:57","slug":"widgets-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wplook.com\/docs\/benevolence\/widgets-benevolence\/widgets-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Widget Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Benevolence theme comes with 18 widget areas, including 12 which act as traditional sidebars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Press\/Blog Widget Area:\u00a0<\/strong>The default widget area for all pages without a specified widget area. These pages include the archive page (used when browsing posts by date or category), the search page, the single post page and pages using the <em>Blog\/News Grid<\/em> and <em>Blog\/News List<\/em> templates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Page Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed\u00a0on all standard pages (using the default\u00a0page template), and on pages using\u00a0the <em>Left Sidebar Template<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Causes Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on the single cause page, the cause archive page and the <em>Causes Grid<\/em> and <em>Causes List<\/em> page templates. This widget area is not available if the Causes post type is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Events Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on the single event page, the events archive page, and the\u00a0<em>Events: Calendar<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Events: List<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Events: Past<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Google Calendar<\/em> page templates. This widget area is not available if the Events post type is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Staff Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on the single staff member page, the staff members archive page and the\u00a0<em>Staff\/Team Grid<\/em> page. This widget area is not available if the Staff post type is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Projects Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on the single project page, projects archive page and the\u00a0<em>Projects Grid<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Projects List<\/em> page templates. This widget area is not available if the Projects post type is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ministries Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on the single ministry page, ministries archive page and the\u00a0<em>Ministries List<\/em> page template. This widget area is not available if the Ministries post type is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Documents Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on the single document page, documents archive page and the\u00a0<em>Documents\u00a0<\/em><em>Grid<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Documents List<\/em> page templates. This widget area is not available if the Documents post type is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gallery Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on the single gallery page, galleries archive page and the\u00a0<em>Gallery Grid<\/em> page template. This widget area is not available of the Gallery post type is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sermons Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on the single sermon page, sermons archive page and the\u00a0<em>Sermons Grid<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Sermons List<\/em> page templates. This widget area is not available if the Sermons post type is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shop Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on WooCommerce shop and single product pages, and additionally anything that uses the\u00a0<em>Shop Template<\/em> page template. This widget area is not available if the WooCommerce plugin is disabled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contact Page Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed on pages using the\u00a0<em>Contact us<\/em> page template.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Footer Widget Area<\/strong>: Widget area displayed in the footer of the site, on every page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"home-page-widgets\">Home page widgets<\/h2>\n<p>The other 6 widget areas are displayed on the home page. Find out more about setting up the layout of these widget areas on\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/wplook.com\/docs\/benevolence\/theme-options-benevolence\/home-page-settings\/\">Home Page Settings<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benevolence theme comes with 18 widget areas, including 12 which act as traditional sidebars: Press\/Blog Widget Area:\u00a0The default widget area for all pages without a specified widget area. These pages include the archive page (used when browsing posts by date or category), the search page, the single post page and pages using the Blog\/News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"Benevolence widget areas","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Widget Areas - Benevolence Docs","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Widget Areas in the Benevolence WordPress theme. 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