Mobile theme: how add a widget area in the home page?

Posted in: Newsmag
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paologalli
#416264
Sep 11, 2021 at 11:55 am

I know that the aim of the mobile plugin is to provide a light and fast theme for mobile device

anyway could be usefull to have a widget area where to put custom contents, other than normal post
besides, when using the grid elements, post are not filtered and could be duplicated

is there any tips to solve these two issues?
thanks

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Calin
#416340
Sep 13, 2021 at 7:54 am

Hi paologalli, for the moment when you are using the mobile theme plugin the extra content can be added only in mobile editor -> https://i.imgur.com/KT2bwFh.png also the grids can be filtered and sorted using those options -> https://i.imgur.com/5FDfo72.png to make sure that the for from grid are not repeating in latest section you can let the category to filter all posts and sort it after latest after that in latest section set an offset (the number of grids) and then the posts will no longer repeat -> https://i.imgur.com/dFsjwyD.png
I hope this will help you!

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paologalli
#416376
Sep 13, 2021 at 9:41 am

thanks Calin
your explication is good but doesn’t help very much for 2 reason (maybe it can help developing some new feature):

1) for a news site there are top news that must appear in the high parte of the page… so the time is not the option to sort the posts and without addressing the main category we can’t put in evidence the main articles

2) mobile editor is good but can’t be used in the home page of the mobile theme… we need some more customization ther to add extra important content

thanks

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Calin
#416504
Sep 14, 2021 at 7:58 am

Hi paologalli, I understand what you mean, indeed Newsmag theme is a little limited when it is coming to edit the content and layout. Also I think that you’ll referring to an option for sticky posts, to can keep a post in the top page as long this is set as sticky. Unfortunately, our theme do not have this option, and this can be done only on responsive version by setting the post id in grid or block with tagDiv Composer.
Now a theme with the option to edit entire layout on desktop an mobile too, it is Newspaper theme, but the option with top news doesn’t exist on this theme either.
Maybe those options will be add in the coming updates.
Thank you!

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