Add widget area to one page only

[LeaChristine]

I've read and tried following other answers to this question, but cannot get it to work-- I want to add a widget area above my blog post area, but only have it appear on the page that publishes my posts. In this case, it's called "Graffiti Wall." Right now I have the widget area displaying properly, but it's also on every other page-- does anyone know how I can just single out the Graffiti wall page to display it? Thanks for any help-- here is what I have right now in my functions.php:

//* Add text section above posts
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'new-widget',
'name' => __( 'New Widget', 'domain' ),
'description' => __( 'Add Content Here', 'domain' ),
) );

add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'your_widget' );
function your_widget() {
if ( comments_open() && is_active_sidebar('new-widget') ) {
genesis_widget_area( 'new-widget', array(
'before' => '<div class="new-widget widget-area">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );

}

}

I have tried to add a new conditional with both if ( is_page('006') && is_active_sidebar('new-widget') ) and if ( is_page('graffiti-wall') && is_active_sidebar('new-widget') ) but neither of them worked-- they just made the widget disappear entirely.

The page ID for the graffiti wall should be 6.

Site URL:

http://www.sampleblogdesign.us/graffiti-wall/

[LeaChristine]

I think I fixed it-- with this:

//* Add text section above posts
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'new-widget',
'name' => __( 'New Widget', 'domain' ),
'description' => __( 'Add Content Here', 'domain' ),
) );

add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'your_widget' );
function your_widget() {
if ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) {
} elseif ( is_home() ) {
genesis_widget_area( 'new-widget', array(
'before' => '<div class="new-widget widget-area">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );

}

}

[Lauren @ OnceCoupled]

Cool, glad you figured this out! I was just about to share this link, which is the solution you used: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Blog_Page

Also, for future reference, please use code tags as anyone who copies your current code will break their site.

Properly formatted code looks like this.

Best,
Lauren

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[LeaChristine]

Thanks Lauren!

[Badlywired]

Your solution is correct.

It is common misunderstanding that the blog page is a page. It isn't in wordpress terms it is_home().

Even if you created a page and assign it to the blog posts (settings > readings ) I assume that is what you have the 'page' isn't really used at all.

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