Once you activate any widget, in your blog, it will be displayed in all the pages by default, including your homepage.
But sometimes, we do want to show some widgets only on Homepage or only for the individual posts pages, or only in a specific page, the coding is quite simple, but you need to customize the widget through the "Edit HTML" link in your "Layout" section.
Follow these steps:
Create any widget, and place it where-ever you want, and save the template. Check if it is working (should be displayed in all the pages).
Remember to give a TITLE to it, like Archives/BlogRoll/Maps/Clock, anything unique.
Now go to "
Edit HTML" page.
Click/mark "
Expand Widget Templates"
Then find for that unique Title (by searching through CTRL+F method)
It will be something like this:
<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='UNIQUE WORD OR TITLE HERE' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != ""'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
Now tweak this as follows
CASE #1
To SHOW the code/widget only in HomePage
<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='
UNIQUE WORD OR TITLE HERE' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != ""'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='
UNIQUE WORD OR TITLE HERE' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != ""'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='
UNIQUE WORD OR TITLE HERE' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "SPECIFIC_BLOG_POST_URL"'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != ""'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
