Add widget area to Outreach Pro

[trevors]

Hi there,

I've been struggling to add an extra widget area below the "Home Bottom" area. I've been able to add a "Home Middle" widget area but have been struggling with an extra widget area below the "Home Bottom" area. I've been reading through the fourm and trying but have not been able to get this done. It seems that the Home Middle was relatively easy to add but below the Home Bottom just above the Sub-footer is more diffcult.

http://reachii.org/

[Victor Font]

This will show you how to add a widget area. While I wrote it for the News Pro theme, it will get you started for any Genesis theme: http://victorfont.com/add-widget-areas-to-news-pro-theme/

If you want the new widget area on the home page only, this article will nail it for you. If you want the widget area to be available on every page, you need to add a function display it in the before footer area with a higher priority than the function in front-page.php

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[trevors]

Hi Victor,

Thanks for your fast response but there are still issues. It's easy to add a widget between the Home-Top and Home-Bottom but after the Home-Bottom is challenging.

Still no success.

[bdpardue]

Hi,
Would you please share the code you used to add Home Middle to Outreach Pro?

Thanks!

[trevors]

Here are the additions:

front-page.php

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-top' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-bottom' ) ) {

//* Add home middle widgets
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'outreach_home_middle_widgets' );

function outreach_home_middle_widgets() {

genesis_widget_area( 'home-middle', array(
'before' => '<div class="home-middle widget-area"><div class="wrap">',
'after' => '</div></div>',
) );

}

functions.php

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-middle',
'name' => __( 'Home - Middle', 'outreach' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the middle section of the Home page.', 'outreach' ),
) );

CSS to suit

.home-middle .widget {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

[trevors]

Any other thoughts on the code I need to use to enable another widget area just above the sub-footer and below the "Home-Bottom"?

Here's the site: http://reachii.org/

[trevors]

The best help I got to resolve this is here: http://wpsites.net/web-design/outreach-pro-add-extra-home-page-widget/

[bdpardue]

Trevors,
Thanks so much for your help. Just what I needed!

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