i want to add a custom side bar phtml file in the home page that would show specific categories. i couldn't find a specific layout or template file for the homepage. any ideas?
Magento 2: How to override Luma Theme Home Page
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to answer my question: first, the homepage like many other pages(ex: footer) are CMS pages, meaning that they are created and used by the admin, meaning that they don't have a particular layout or template or block files. 1-if you want to change the layout to 2-columns-left for example, you can either do it the admin panel or like I did edit the row in the database with installData:
$setup->startSetup();
$setup->updateTableRow('cms_page', 'page_id', '2', 'page_layout', '2columns-left');
$setup->endSetup();
2- next you want to create your sidebar template and it's the corresponding block in your custom module. 3- finally in your custom theme in
vendore/theme/Magento_Cms/layout/cms_index_index.xml
add this:
<body>
<referenceContainer name="page.wrapper">
<referenceContainer name="columns">
<container name="div.sidebar.main" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="sidebar sidebar-main" before="main">
<container name="sidebar.main" as="sidebar_main" label="Sidebar Main">
<block class="vendore\module\Block\SideBar"
template="vendore_module::side_menu.phtml"/>
</container>
</container>
</referenceContainer>
</referenceContainer>
</body>
and like this you can a custom side bar in your home page