Adding Widget Area to Home Page in Balance

[mstewar22]

Hi,
I'd like to add a full width image below the navigation on the home page. I currently have the home page set to display posts and can't seem to figure out how to add a widget area. I've tried several things, The area appears in my widget list. I think I am not putting the code into the right template perhaps.

[ItsPhipps]

Let's take a look at the code you tried to see if we can figure out the problem.

[mstewar22]

Well, I tried it in several places and probably added it way too many places, which template file is the blog home page? The page where you set the home page to display the latest blog posts? I have home.php, a page-landing and page-portfolio in my balance folder...

home.php was what i thought it would be on...so here's the code for that...

<?php

add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'balance_home_genesis_meta' );
/**
* Add widget support for homepage.
*
*/
function balance_home_genesis_meta() {

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'Full-Width-Image' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-left' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-right' ) ) {

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'balance_home_loop_helper' );

}
}

/**
* Display widget content for home featured sections.
*
*/
function balance_home_loop_helper() {

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'Full-Width-Image' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-left' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-right' ) ) {

echo '<div id="home-featured"><div class="wrap clearfix">';

echo '<div class="full-width-image">';
dynamic_sidebar( 'Full-Width-Image' );
echo '</div><!-- end .full-width-image -->';

echo '<div class="home-featured-left">';
dynamic_sidebar( 'home-featured-left' );
echo '</div><!-- end .home-featured-left -->';

echo '<div class="home-featured-right">';
dynamic_sidebar( 'home-featured-right' );
echo '</div><!-- end .home-featured-right -->';

echo '</div><!-- end .wrap --></div><!-- end #home-featured -->';

}

}

remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_grid_loop_helper' );
/** Add support for Genesis Grid Loop **/
function child_grid_loop_helper() {

if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {

genesis_grid_loop( array(
'features' => 1,
'feature_image_size' => 0,
'feature_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
'feature_content_limit' => 0,
'grid_image_size' => 'grid',
'grid_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
'grid_content_limit' => 0,
'more' => __( 'Continue reading...', 'genesis' ),
'posts_per_page' => 3,
) );

}

else {
genesis_standard_loop();
}

}

genesis();

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added this code to functions.php:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'Full-Width-Image',
'name' => __( 'Full Width Image', 'balance' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the fullwidth image', 'balance' )
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-featured-left',
'name' => __( 'Home Featured Left', 'balance' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the featured left area on the homepage.', 'balance' ),
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-featured-right',
'name' => __( 'Home Featured Right', 'balance' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the featured right area on the homepage.', 'balance' ),
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'portfolio',
'name' => __( 'Portfolio', 'balance' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the portfolio page.', 'balance' ),
) );
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'Full-Width-Image' );
function your_widget() {
if ( is_front_page() && is_active_sidebar('Full-Width-Image') ) {
genesis_widget_area( 'Full-Width-Image', array(
'before' => '<div class="full-width-image">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );

}

}

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just the "full-width-image" parts..

[mstewar22]

here is url...

http://new.healthcareexcellence.org/

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