Adding "Welcome Text" widget to LifeStyle Pro Theme

[digitgirl2]

Hello,

I'd like to add a welcome text area above the posts on home page.

I tried adding a "text" to the Home top widget, but when I did this the post disappeared from home page.

Thanks for the help.

Robin

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[nutsandbolts]

Lifestyle Pro is set to either (1) display a widgetized homepage (if you put anything into the home widget areas) or (2) display blog posts like normal (if there's nothing in the home widget areas). If you want to show blog posts but would like the home top widget to display, you'll need to do this:

- Rename front-page.php in your child theme folder to something like front-page-old.php. That will take out the widget areas for the homepage and prevent them from overriding your blog posts.

- Paste the following into functions.php (be sure to come to the forum to get this code - if you copy and paste from the email notification it will break your site):

//* Hook Home Top widget area before the loop
add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'lifestyle_home_top_widget' );
function lifestyle_home_top_widget() {
    if ( is_home() ) {
    genesis_widget_area( 'home-top', array(
		'before' => '<div class="home-top widget-area"><div class="wrap">',
		'after' => '</div></div>',
    ) );
} }

//* Register widget areas
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'home-top',
	'name'        => __( 'Home - Top', 'lifestyle' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the top section of the homepage.', 'lifestyle' ),
) );

That will give you a Home Top widget area but also allow blog posts to show under it. Hope that helps!

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[digitgirl2]

Thanks! This is exactly what I needed. Worked like a charm.

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