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Indigo — Widgets & Widget Areas

This article refers to Indigo

Indigo comes with a rich set of magazine widgets and fifteen widget areas. Manage them in Appearance → Widgets.

The Widgets screen

Table of Contents

  1. Widget areas
  2. Theme widgets
  3. The Most Viewed widget & the views counter

Widget areas

Homepage:

  • Homepage (Below the Slider) Full-width — a full-width band right under the slideshow.
  • Homepage (Below the Slider) 1/3 / 2/3 / 3/3 Column — three columns under the slideshow; made for the WPZOOM: Image Box widget.
  • Homepage: Featured Categories (Below Recent Posts) — the magazine sections; see Featured Categories.

Site-wide:

  • Sidebar — next to the content (where a sidebar layout is active).
  • Single Post (after content) — below every post.
  • Instagram Bar — the full-width strip above the footer; add the widget from the Instagram Widget by WPZOOM plugin.
  • Header Social Icons — the top-bar icons; use the Social Icons Widget by WPZOOM plugin with the Color Icon/No Background style.
  • Footer: Column 1–4 — the footer columns.
  • WooCommerce Sidebar — shown on shop and product pages when WooCommerce is active.

Theme widgets

  • Featured Category and Featured Categories (2 columns) — the homepage magazine sections.
  • WPZOOM: Image Box — an image with a title and link; for the columns below the slideshow.
  • WPZOOM: Carousel Slider — a scrollable posts carousel.
  • WPZOOM: Recent Posts — a compact recent-posts list with thumbnails.
  • WPZOOM: Most Commented — posts ranked by comment count.
  • WPZOOM: Most Viewed — posts ranked by the built-in views counter (see below).
  • WPZOOM: Tabs — a tabbed box combining recent/popular posts lists in one compact widget.
  • WPZOOM: Author Bio — a highlight box for an author, with avatar and description.

The Most Viewed widget & the views counter

Indigo counts post views itself — no extra plugin needed — and the WPZOOM: Most Viewed widget ranks posts by those counts. Since version 1.1.1 the counter is accurate and cache-proof:

  • Each visitor is counted once per 24 hours per post — refreshing the page doesn’t inflate counts.
  • Views by logged-in editors and by bots/crawlers are not counted.
  • Counting works on sites using full-page caching plugins.

The widget starts showing posts as soon as views accumulate; on a brand-new site it displays a short notice until there’s data.


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Last updated on August 28, 2026