Agency Theme Static Homepage with Slider

[TowelsRus]

Hi,

I wanted to setup our homepage to use the responsive slider widget, however i can only do so if the homepage uses recent posts and is not set to static page.

Do you know any work around for this?

Thanks Craig

[Brad Dalton]

Add a widget area to a static page using this tutorial http://designsbynickthegeek.com/tutorials/add-widgeted-sidebar

Change the conditional tag to match your custom home page

is_page('007') or is_home()

Modify this code and change the hook location and conditional tag:

add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'child_after_post_box' );
/** Loads a new sidebar after the post on single pages*/
function child_after_post_box() {
 
    if( is_single() ) {
        echo '<div class="after-post-box">';
            dynamic_sidebar( 'after-post-box' );
        echo '</div>';
    }
}

or use this and use the Widget Logic plugin http://www.briangardner.com/welcome-text-widget/

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[TowelsRus]

Thanks Brad, I'll have a play with it.

Regards

Craig

[dpbklyn]

Hello Brad,

Thank you in advance.

 

I am trying to add a slider under the header in my Agency theme and I followed the direction above, but I am not able to see it.  I can see the sidebar in my widgets control panel.  I think I am having trouble identifying the page name/number.  I am using this particular page as my home page (static).  My code is below:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'after-header-testl',
'name' => 'After Header Slider',
'description' => 'This is a sidebar that goes after the header.',
) );

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'child_after_header_testl_sidebar' );
/** Loads a new sidebar after the header */
function child_after_header_testl_sidebar() {

if( is_home() ) {
echo '<div class="after-header-testl">';
dynamic_sidebar( 'after-header-testl' );
echo '</div>';
}

}

Thank you...

dp

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David Phillips
Owner, St. Louis IT Solutions, LLC

[dpbklyn]

Hello Brad,

Thank you in advance.

 

I am trying to add a slider under the header in my Agency theme and I followed the directions above, but I am not able to see it.  I can see the sidebar in my widgets control panel.  I think I am having trouble identifying the page name/number.  I am using this particular page as my home page (static).  My code is below:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'after-header-testl',
'name' => 'After Header Slider',
'description' => 'This is a sidebar that goes after the header.',
) );

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'child_after_header_testl_sidebar' );
/** Loads a new sidebar after the header */
function child_after_header_testl_sidebar() {

if( is_home() ) {
echo '<div class="after-header-testl">';
dynamic_sidebar( 'after-header-testl' );
echo '</div>';
}

}

Thank you...

dp

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David Phillips
Owner, St. Louis IT Solutions, LLC

[dpbklyn]

Whoops, sorry for the duplicate posts...

UPDATE:

Here is an update.  When I changed the page name to another non-static page it seems that the slider is finding its way onto the page.  Actually what happens is that the page goes blank when I change the code to have the widget put on that page.  I guess this is progress?

 

Thank you still...

dpbklyn

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David Phillips
Owner, St. Louis IT Solutions, LLC

[Brad Dalton]

Try this:

https://gist.github.com/braddalton/5285591

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[dpbklyn]

Brad,

Thank you for getting back to me, but it doesn't seem that I Have access to that repository.  Actually, I can't find that repo on github.

The code just populated...never mind.

 

Thank you,

dp

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David Phillips
Owner, St. Louis IT Solutions, LLC

[dpbklyn]

YAHOO!!!

Thank you,  All I have to do is style it now.

dp

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David Phillips
Owner, St. Louis IT Solutions, LLC

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