Replace Blog Posts With Widget Area in Education Pro Themes Front Page

This tutorial shows you how to remove the loop of posts from the front page of the Education theme and replace it with a single widget area.

Here’s the question this post answers:

I’d like to replace the blog section with a widget area below home middle on the Education Pro theme.

And here’s the result using calendar widgets to populate each widget area on the new front page:

There’s 2 steps involved:

Step 1