Add widget to div within page content on Genesis landing page template

[RichardPD]

My genesis child theme has 4 footer widget areas registered on my landing page and I am using one to add eNews email sign up widget in the footer of my site landing page (ie after my page content at the bottom of the page).

I want now to add a widget to a div within the landing page (#pagewidget) and have registered a widget area but I do not know what action code I need to make it work! I have tried several code attempts without success.

This is my current functions.php code for this:

//*RPD register landingpage widget in pagewidget div area
genesis_register_sidebar(array(
 'name'=>'LandingPageWidget ',
 'id' => 'pagewidget',
 'description' => 'This is the widget area of the landingpage pagewidget div area.',

));

//* Add widget area in landing page content in pagewidget div

function add_LandingPageWidget() {
	LandingPageWidget( 'pagewidget', array(
'before' => '<div id="pagewidget">',
'after' => '</div>',
 ) );
}

This is my site:Chess Rating Rise

I am most grateful if anyone can help me and provide the right action code to add this widget area properly to the landing page div area. I look forward to helpful replies, many thanks

http://chessratingrise.co.uk/

[WisdmLabs]

Hi Richard,

In your landing page add this code inside your div where you need the widget content.

<?php genesis_widget_area( 'pagewidget', array( 'before' => '<div class="pagewidget widget-area">', 'after' => '</div>')); ?>

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http://wisdmlabs.com/

[RichardPD]

Hi
Thanks for your help but this hasn't worked properly..

I added the code to the landing page directly where it did not display and into the landing page template.php
when I had a PHP error saying unexpected < .

The image below shows the result with it added to the div directly in the landing page...
Add widget to div in landing page error

I'm grateful for any further help to get this working..thanks

[WisdmLabs]

Hi Richard,

The code needs to be in the template.
In case you are inserting this code in between html tags, only then you need to add the opening and closing php tags ie <?php and ?>
else if the code is within a php block, simply copy
genesis_widget_area( 'pagewidget', array( 'before' => '<div class="pagewidget widget-area">', 'after' => '</div>'));

---

http://wisdmlabs.com/

[RichardPD]

Hi
Thanks for your further help.
This code has put the #pagewidget at the top of the landing page and that is where the eNews plugin is placed.
I put #pagewidget div into the middle of the page content where I want the widget area to be!

This is the code I have in my landing page template
genesis_widget_area( 'pagewidget', array( 'before' => '<div id="pagewidget">', 'after' => '</div>'));

This is the code I have in my theme functions

//*RPD register landingpage widget in pagewidget div area
genesis_register_sidebar(array(
 'name'=>'LandingPageWidget ',
 'id' => 'pagewidget',
 'description' => 'This is the widget area of the landingpage pagewidget div area.',

));

//* Add widget area in landing page content in pagewidget div

function add_LandingPageWidget() {
	LandingPageWidget( 'pagewidget', array(
'before' => '<div id="pagewidget">',
'after' => '</div>',
 ) );
}

See this on siteChess Rating Rise

HELP!

I've been following several tutorials to try and understand this myself but I have not seen one tutorial creating a new widget area in a page (most are for posts) and most are using hooks that place the widget in places I don't want it!

I'm grateful for more help and advice to fix this, many thanks

[WisdmLabs]

Hi Richard,

You would not need the code

function add_LandingPageWidget() {
	LandingPageWidget( 'pagewidget', array(
'before' => '<div id="pagewidget">',
'after' => '</div>',
 ) );
}

The code snippet in functions.php should be

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'            => 'pagewidget',
	'name'          => __( 'LandingPageWidget', 'themename' ),
	'description'   => __( 'This is a widget area ', 'themename' ),
) );

Suppose i wish to display the content of this widget area in my front-page.php template inside a particular div,
my code would be

<div class="myDiv">
<?php genesis_widget_area( pagewidget', array( 'before' => '<div class="pagewidget widget-area">', 'after' => '</div>')); ?>
</div>

---

http://wisdmlabs.com/

[RichardPD]

Hi
Thanks for your further help. I'm sure this is very simple for you but I have spent hours now trying to fix it.
Using your example landing page code I get this error:
A white browser screen with the php error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home4/hilaryd/public_html/chessratingrise.co.uk/wp-content/themes/Standard_Gen/page_landing.php on line 71

This was the code that I used
'<div class="MyPageWidget">
<?php genesis_widget_area( pagewidget', array( 'before' => '<div class="pagewidget widget-area">', 'after' => '</div>')); ?>
</div>`
I have just removed this and I will keep trying to figure this out and get it to work but I would still really like your help if possible.
Many thanks for helping me so far with this, best wishes 🙂

[RichardPD]

In brief I have given up trying to do this for the moment.
I have spent ages trying to get a widgetised area in the content on my landing page and while I'm sure I could eventually succeed with this I've spent too long trying (at least I know some ways that do not work!..all experience!).
As I've said most information on site posts show how to register and activate a widget area in specific parts of a Genesis/Genesis Child theme using hooks (in the footer, above the header,after the header, before and after post content).
Of the many posts explaining this I think I've only seen one post trying to add a widget to a custom template and that didn't work for me.

Instead I have done an alternative which is directly use HTML form code within my page content at the place I want to put it.
The form style code isn't elegant as it is borrowed from elsewhere, again as I did not have my own form code premade. I have integrated it with my Aweber code and it is satisfactory for the moment (I'll probably find it doesn't work as a responsive form sometime soon!).

Anyway I have learnt a little more about Genesis (as this is my first ever Genesis/Genesis child theme and site).
However I now need to spend time working on my site products and posts and not be spending time coding the theme!
Possibly, when I have set the site up fully I will revisit all this and try it again but for now I must press on with the rest of the site and other issues.

This post has been sinking fast down the page list in this forum over the last 2 days and soon will be buried deep in the bowels of historic pages.
Bye and goodluck to all using widgetised areas in landing pages and to all Genesis users and developers! 🙂

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