Creating A Slider On Homepage of Focus Theme

[amandac]

Hi,

I love the layout of the Focus theme but I want to have a slider at the top of the homepage, after the header, but before the latest post feed.

I envision the slider being half-width, with the primary sidebar on its right.

Can anyone help me do this, or lead me to a resource that might help? I am pretty new to this stuff.

Amanda

[Andrea Rennick]

Add a widget area:
http://www.studiopress.com/tutorials/register-widget-area
http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes

Nick's super clear explanation: http://nickc.co/sidebar

Using a hook:
http://www.briangardner.com/home-widget-area-eleven40/

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[amandac]

Thank you! This is very very helpful

[Davinder Singh Kainth]

Step 1 Add new widget area "homepage-feature" below header using following code in functions.php file.

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'homepage-feature',
'name' => __( 'Homepage Feature', 'custom' ),
'description' => __( 'This is Homepage feature section', 'custom' ),
) );
/** Top Homepage feature section */
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'news_homepage_feature', 9 );
function news_homepage_feature() {
if ( is_home() && is_active_sidebar( 'homepage-feature' ) ) {
echo '';
dynamic_sidebar( 'homepage-feature' );
echo '';
}
}

source - http://www.basicwp.com/add-new-widget-genesis-homepage/

Step 2. Install Genesis responsive slider and drag the slider widget into "homepage-feature" widget area.

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