Widget hacks….

Hi,

I’m very new to this theme and exploring it’s logics.

To start with, I wanted to keep things very simple having same sidebar on all the site.

I used a flex5 element to build a news feed without pictures. (a bit like Romania ‘Music’ block on homepage)

Got it working nicely on the home page and when I looked into ways of sharing sidebar across all website seemed the only way was using widgets (am I missing something?)

Ok… so I tried to do this using the {tagDiv} Block 17 but failed on hiding the picture (+ other things…)

Then I thought I was probably much better off just copy past of the shortcode… easy cool !!!

Works like a charm… all most… just a little css to “polyfill”

So I wanted to ark if that type of hack was considered acceptable (stealing shortcodes generated by the builder and pasting it into the html widget) and if so how should I manage the css story? (aka: is there a proper way of doing this?)

Thanks for help me out 🙂

Here is the shortcode I used

[td_flex_block_5 art_title_pos=”bottom” info_pos=”bottom” art_excerpt_pos=”bottom” art_audio_pos=”bottom” modules_category=”” btn_pos=”bottom” hide_image=”yes” show_excerpt=”none” show_audio=”none” show_review=”none” show_com=”none” show_btn=”none” modules_divider=”solid” all_modules_space=”10″ modules_gap=”40″ meta_padding2=”5px 0″ ajax_pagination=”load_more” td_ajax_preloading=”preload” custom_title=”Filinfo” h_effect=”” td_ajax_filter_type=”td_category_ids_filter” td_ajax_filter_ids=”6,2,12″ td_filter_default_txt=”Tout” block_template_id=”td_block_template_17″ title_tag=”” accent_text_color=”#ff036e” f_title_font_size=”eyJhbGwiOiIxNiIsImxhbmRzY2FwZSI6IjIwIiwicG9ydHJhaXQiOiIxNyJ9″ f_title_font_line_height=”1.2″ f_ex_font_size=”=” f_ex_font_line_height=”” tdc_css=”eyJhbGwiOnsiYm9yZGVyLWNvbG9yIjoiI2VlZWVlZSIsImRpc3BsYXkiOiIifX0=” f_header_font_style=”” f_header_font_size=”21″ m_padding=”0 7px” limit=”6″]