Question

I’m new to Orchard CMS & MVC so please take this into account. Any help -the more the better- will be greatly received.

I want to add widgets to my blog summary page. What is the best way to achieve this? Ive tried creating a layer for the blog summary page defined by the rules for the layer, so as to be unique to this page. However, this only allows me to add widgets into the layer zones.

What i need/want to do is to effectively create a side bar with a tag cloud and a blogroll showing titles of other posts, and a couple of other bits of content. This would mean moving the blog summary content into another zone inorder that i can fit widgets down the side.

Is this the correct approach? If so how do i shift the summary stuff into another zone??
If this isnt the best approach, what is???

Is this where projections come in???

Thanks

Answer 1

In the end I was able to find the relevant view then switch the zones around so that the narrower zone appeared on the right. Then created a projection to return the blog post summary and placed this in the left hand larger zone.

Thanks to everyone that tried to help. I knew there had to be a simple answer, hence my initially simplified question. I didnt realise that would cause so much grief.