Custom widgets in child theme

[tomazt]

hi
is it possible to add custom widget to dante child theme? is there any tutorial or some documentation?
thank you

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

What you mean exactly?
Create an widget area in a specific place?

-Rui

[tomazt]

hi
i need to create custom widgets visible at appearance>widgets
i noticed that widgets are in swift-framework/widgets (i copied swift-framework to child theme) but my widget not appear on widget lists when i put it in widgets directory. so i assume that need to be called somewhere in framework or somewhere.
hope that i explained it good enough 🙂

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

Sorry, what do you mean you are trying to crease a ‘custom widget’? Do you have coding knowledge on how to create widgets? What sort of widget are you trying to create?

– Kyle

[tomazt]

create my own widget for show some specific content. yes, i have the knowledge. it work with default wp themes (with standard procedure of putting widget php file in wp plugin directory) but not work with dante child theme (even standard procedure with wp plugin directory not work here).
hope that now is more clear what i trying.

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Nothing in the theme is preventing custom widgets, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to use widgets from 3rd party plugins. You must be doing something wrong. You said you copied the swift framework folder to your child theme, you can’t do that, only top level files can be overwritten in the child theme, for e.g. header.php, footer.php etc

You would have to add custom functions in the child theme functions.php file to add a custom widget

– Kyle