Adding Full-Width Widget Area to Magazine Pro

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Hi folks;

As much as the next guy hates being the ones to ask a repeat question, I can say that I *did* look around first to see if I could find the answer.

A burning desire to get my real estate website looking EXACTLY how I want lately has lead me to learn a lot more about CSS. I am still stumped on this one though. I am using Magazine Pro, and I want to add a widget area above the Home Top area, but below the navigation to basically put a full-width slider in.

I found the following code and have attempted to use it, but it freezes my entire wp-admin back panel. I have been successful in changing pre-existing code thus far, and finding what I need in the depths, but adding this code has not turned out well. Any advice is immensely appreciated!

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'before-home',
	'name'        => __( 'Home Before Content', 'wpsites' ),
	'description' => __( 'Displays Before Content On Home Page.', 'wpsites' ),
) );
/**
 * @author    Brad Dalton
 * @example   http://wpsites.net/web-design/add-widget-area-before-content/
 * @copyright 2014 WP Sites
 */
add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'wpsites_widget_before_home' );
function wpsites_widget_before_home() {
if ( is_home() && is_active_sidebar('before-content') ) {
	genesis_widget_area( 'before-home', array(
		'before' => '<div class="before-home" class="widget-area">',
		'after'  => '</div>',
	) );
    }
}
   

http://www.alexanderhendrickson.com

[Brad Dalton]

Please link to the source of the code. Thanks.

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[[email protected]]

Am I missing something? The Magazine Pro code, or the code I posted? The link (http://wpsites.net/web-design/add-widget-area-before-content/) is right in the middle OF the code. In fact it is your code. I posted that because I believed from what I know that it should affect my desired result, but it doesn't.

Thanks!

[Brad Dalton]

Please copy ALL the code from the view raw link in the Gist and paste it at the end of your child themes functions.php file using a text editor like Notepad++

I tested this code and it works.

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[[email protected]]

Just did that and now it works too. Was I missing something before? I thought I had copied all of it. Not sure what is different now.

Thank you!

[Brad Dalton]

I changed one of the conditional checks. is_active_sidebar('before-home')

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[Blenda Yáñez]

Hi Braddalton

I subscribe to your newsletter a few days ago but I can not access your site. Only the homepage is available in Brazil. You know that? Why can not I login? when the following message appears: " Sorry but this content is not available in your country at the moment"

I'm sorry because I like to learn from your tutorials and use his teachings to improve my site.

[Brad Dalton]

What is your domain name?

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[wasanajones]

thanks Brad - I had strayed away from genesis following the lure of easy layouts... but now I know nothing beats the support found here

[Brad Dalton]

Understand, Its hard to get top quality support for free from unpaid forum volunteers.

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[smkyle1]

Brad,

I tried the code you wrote for Alexander on my Metro Pro child theme and it worked great. I would like to do something similar but I want my widget to be positioned at the very top of the page - above my header and I'd like it centered.

Here is my site:

http://www.laprogressive.com

thanks so much,

Sharon

[Brad Dalton]

Change the genesis_before_content hook to wp_head or genesis_before_header and then use CSS to center your content.

Note: All functions and widgets need to use unique names and I.D's

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[smkyle1]

thank you so much -- you've saved me a lot of time

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