Question

So I am creating my first widget area in a custom theme I am building using this tutorial: http://www.tips4developer.com/wordpress/wordpress-create-custom-widget-area/

This all seems pretty straight forward, but what I want to do is add the widget area only to my static home page, by splitting the content created by the widget area with the home page content I created in WordPress. Where would I add the function to show the widget area only on the static home page?

Answer 1

You can check with the is_page($page_id)

 if (is_page($page)){
      // your widget here
}

Based on this you can call your static page id with $page