Adding widget areas to the Mag Pro front page

[Callum]

Hi,

I'm looking at adding a widget are or two to the magazine pro front page. I've added widgets to other themes before, however I'm not 100% sure how to do what I want to do here.

I basically want a widget box below the logo/header and about the featured article and sidebar. It would be 100% of the width of the site etc (keeping in line with the left edge of the content and right edge of the sidebar. The second would just be a repeat of the first, so I can just replicate.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[Brad Dalton]

Try this http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/register-widget-area/

You would use the genesis_after_header hook and the is_front_page conditional tag after the function.

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[Callum]

Thanks Brad

I took a few leaps of faith and I think it has come up ok, just need to style it up to be sure.

Thanks again.

[Callum]

I'm pretty happy with the widget (thanks again Brad) but I can't get the styling (the width quite right). If I set the width to a number (eg 930px) the widget is left aligned with the screen, not the content and sidebar. If I set it as a percentage it goes to the edge of the page.

If anyone could point me in the direction of the bit of code I'm missing I'd appreciate it.

[Brad Dalton]

What are you using the widget for?

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[Callum]

At the moment I have a slider in there. Which is fine as I can set the slider size. However, anything I ad to show below the slider (such as an optin form I want to ad) clings to the left hand side of the browser rather than inline with the rest of the page.

[Brad Dalton]

Must be a problem with the code. Please paste the code on Pastebin or Github Gists and link to it from here.

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