Adding custom sidebars to Prose

[emilywhitedesigns]

I'm wanting to add a split sidebar under the main sidebar in Prose (for a total of three widgetized sidebars). I have added the following code to the Custom Functions area in the Custom Code screen but it doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas? I'm rather new to working with Prose and things seems just a little different than the normal child themes.

// Register the sidebars with WordPress
genesis_register_sidebar(
array(
'id' => 'sidebar-bottom-left',
'name' => __( 'Sidebar Bottom Left', 'theme-text-domain' ),
'description' => __( 'This shows up underneath the primary sidebar.', 'theme-text-domain' ),
)
);

genesis_register_sidebar(
array(
'id' => 'sidebar-bottom-right',
'name' => __( 'Sidebar Bottom Right', 'theme-text-domain' ),
'description' => __( 'This shows up underneath the primary sidebar.', 'theme-text-domain' ),
)
);

[wendycholbi]

In addition to registering the widget areas, you need to add the widgets to one of the Genesis hooks.

Take a look at Brian Gardner's tutorial for adding a widget, and modify that code for your sidebar widgets (most tutorials will tell you to add functions to functions.php, but Prose is different, and you're already correctly adding your code to the Genesis --> Custom Code --> Custom Functions area. You could also use the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin if you prefer).

You may want to look at the Genesis Hook Reference and this Genesis Visual Hook Guide to see which hook to use (I'm guessing in your case it would be genesis_after_sidebar_widget_area).

Then, you'll need to add some CSS to Genesis --> Custom Code --> Custom CSS to style your widget areas (making them each half as wide as the primary sidebar, and whatever other styles you need).

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