{"id":8,"date":"2026-08-17T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/2026\/08\/17\/menus-widgets\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:55:00","slug":"menus-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/2026\/08\/17\/menus-widgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Menus &amp; Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Menu locations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Top Menu<\/strong> \u2014 the <code>primary<\/code> location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Create menus under <strong>Appearance \u2192 Menus<\/strong>. If you do not assign a menu, the theme falls back to listing your pages automatically \u2014 useful on a new site, but you will want a real menu before launch.<\/p>\n<h2>Widget areas<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sidebar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Footer 1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Footer 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Footer 3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Footer 4<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Child Education keeps the Customizer deliberately small \u2014 the homepage is built with the SiteOrigin page builder, so most of the layout work happens on the page itself rather than in theme options.<\/p>\n<h2>Sidebars on individual pages<\/h2>\n<p>The theme includes page templates for different layouts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Default<\/strong> \u2014 content with the sidebar on the right.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Left Sidebar<\/strong> \u2014 sidebar on the left.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Full Width<\/strong> \u2014 no sidebar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Full Width<\/strong> \u2014 the designed homepage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Set these in the <strong>Page Attributes \u2192 Template<\/strong> box when editing a page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Menu locations Top Menu \u2014 the primary location. Create menus under Appearance \u2192 Menus. If you do not assign a menu, the theme falls back to listing your\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}