The Role of Widget Areas The natural tendency is for users to place their content on the home page itself: Pages > Home > Edit. It is perfectly fine to use the visual editor tab and put the text and images inside the content area. If you know code, you could use the text tab for inserting HTML and CSS. On the other hand, using the home page widgets gives you access to many cool options that will override anything typed directly onto the home page. The widget areas are content containers; … [Read more...] about Home Page Widgets in WordPress