Add widget area above Primary and alt sidebars

[soaringpine]

I am using the Focus theme for my blog site, with the home page utilizing a 3 column layout (content, primary sidebar, alt sidebar).  My inner pages are utilizing a content, primary sidebar layout.

What I would like to do is add a widget area above BOTH sidebars on the home page.  I can add a widget using a hook but I cannot add it above BOTH sidebars.  There is no hook that places it above both sidebars.

Can someone guide me in the right direction with this?  I would greatly appreciate it.

[Brad Dalton]

Link to your homepage please.

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[Susan]

Try these threads:

need double width text widget

Adding widget area above both sidebars

[soaringpine]

My site is http://www.hornsports.com.  None of these solutions are working for me.  No hook that will put a widget above both sidebars without covering both the content area and the sidebars.

Any ideas are appreciated.

[Brad Dalton]

How about this hook: genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap

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[soaringpine]

That hook places the widget above both the content column and both sidebars.  Just need something to place above the sidebars.

Any other ideas?

 

[Brad Dalton]

This one but only for content sidebar layouts. genesis_before_sidebar_widget_area

I guess you already know that?

I'm sure there's a way to add custom hooks in Genesis.

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[Brad Dalton]

I think i found a hook already in the Genesis core sidebar-alt.php file.

Try these 2:

genesis_before_sidebar_alt_widget_area

genesis_before_sidebar_widget_area

Works?

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[soaringpine]

This is what I currently use:

 

add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'child_before_sidebar_widget_area_ad_sidebar' );

/** Loads a new sidebar after the content */ function child_before_sidebar_widget_area_ad_sidebar () {    echo '<div class="before-sidebars-area">';

dynamic_sidebar( 'before-sidebars-area' );

echo '</div>';

}

 

 

How would I utilize two hooks?

[Brad Dalton]

I've written the code containing the new hook and will test it using the sidebar - content - sidebar layout.

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[soaringpine]

Thanks Brad.  Focus does offer the 3 column layout as an option (http://demo.studiopress.com/focus/layouts/css/).  I am using content-sidebar-sidebar on my home page.

I appreciate your help with this.

Also checked out your site - nice work.

[Brad Dalton]

Try this https://gist.github.com/braddalton/5254942

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[soaringpine]

Brad, this adds two widget areas it looks like - one above each sidebar.

[Brad Dalton]

Just use one and make the width extend across both using CSS code.

There is no hook that places it above both sidebars.

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[soaringpine]

Still getting hidden behind one sidebar.  Any other ideas?

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