Adding Responsive Widget Area Above Page Content

[TonySan1]

Hi. Thanks to the help of this community I am making some headway in editing my Generate Pro theme. What I would like help with now is the best way to add a widget area directly above the content area of my home page. I would like the widget area to be the same with as the content area not the with of my home page. Can you help?

Tony

[Victor Font]

There are 3 things you need to do. First, you register the widget area. Second, you display the widget area. Third, add or modify CSS to adjust the appearance of the new widget area.

There's a lot of real estate above the content area on the home page. You've got several hooks where you could possibly load the new area. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the layout of the hooks: https://genesistutorials.com/visual-hook-guide/

If you open the theme's functions.php and look at line 134, this is the code for registering the featured widget area for the home page. Registering the widget area allows you to add widgets to it in the admin area. It does not display the contents on the page.

At line 112, you'll see the code for displaying the featured widget area on the home page. If you want the new widget area to be in the same hook as the featured widget area, you can copy the code you see and rename the appropriate strings to match the new widget area. If you want the new widget area in a different hook, duplicate the whole function and add_action. Make sure you rename the new function so there's no issue with PHP.

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[TonySan1]

Thanks Victor the information you gave is very helpful. Also much easier to understand than a lot of the information I've run across doing internet searches. 😉

Thanks Again!

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