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  • Hi mumuhajir. Welcome to the forum. That’s probably doable although it will take some amount of work. Basically:
    1. Create a new custom sidebar in Theme Options > Sidebars
    2. Add the widget to the sidebar
    3. Create a child theme if you don’t have one
    4. Copy index.php to the child theme
    5. Edit index.php to add the dynamic sidebar
    6. Add custom css to reduce the size of the featured posts container
    7. Add custom css to position and style the dynamic sidebar
    8. Test for mobile views and add css media queries to accommodate the changes made in #6 and #7.
    Or you could just use the free version of the ThemeZee Glades theme.

    Thread Starter mumuhajir

    (@mumuhajir)

    Thanks you ??
    but, it looks like little bit confused for me.

    I want to make my homepage to show like this :

    [Slider Here]

    Category 1 :
    [Showing 4 recent post from Category 1]

    Category 2 :
    [Showing 4 recent post from Category 2]

    How can i do that? by editing index.php ?

    Technically that’s possible. You’d still have to edit index.php and probably remove the current post loop and replace it with two dynamic sidebars, going through the same process I outlined above. The issues here will be (1) the widget isn’t designed to work in that wide of a content area (don’t know what it would look like since I’ve never tried that), and (2) the responsive styling in mobile views. Or you could replace the current post loop in index.php with two custom loops, one for each category. That’s all custom PHP programming.

    Hueman is not built like some other themes that let you drop widgets wherever you want in the content area. Another option might be to use a “page builder” plugin“. But again, you may run into issues with mobile views because the default theme css isn’t going to know anything about the blocks used to build the page. This is the main reason that I tell users that if you want to do something major like this, where you’re changing the basic structure of the theme, you’re probably better off to look for another theme that has a layout closer to what you want, or has the built-in capability to make the modifications needed. I’m not trying to discourage you from using Hueman. It’s a great theme that includes options that many commercial themes don’t have. But, it’s not the best fit for everyone.

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