enterprise child theme with both widget and posts into the home page

[tsolignani]

I am on genesis and enterprise child them, both updated to the last versions. I wonder if I can add both Home middle and Footer widgets while keeping post excerpts into the home page. As a matter of fact, if I enable footers the posts keep showing, but when I enable the home middle widgets too, the posts disappear and the home page is made up only with widgets. My blog is http://blog.solignani.it. I wrote to support and was told I have to edit the home.php file but that's beyond me. I wonder if anyone did the same or could gave me some hint or code snippet to try. Thank you.

–
cordialmente,

tiziano solignani, da  Mac
http://blog.solignani.it

[cehwitham]

I don't have the theme installed to test it but looking at the home.php file for the Enterprise theme I think you need to find:

function enterprise_home_genesis_meta() {

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-1' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-2' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-3' ) ) {

remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'enterprise_home_loop_helper' );
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );

}
}

And change it to:

function enterprise_home_genesis_meta() {

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-1' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-2' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-3' ) ) {

add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'enterprise_home_loop_helper', 1 );
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );

}
}

Make sure you delete the remove_action line.

Let me know how you get on.

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[tsolignani]

Thank you.

It does work, but it removes the primay sidebar, the one on the right, from the home page, while I would like to keep it as well.

Is there any way, to your knowledge?

Should you need to have a look, I can temporarily enable one widget in the home middle, just tell me.

 

Again, many thanks.
–
cordialmente,

tiziano solignani, da  Mac
http://blog.solignani.it

[cehwitham]

I think if you remove the following line of code from the code I gave you above it should put the sidebar back:

add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );

So you should have:

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-1' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-2' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-3' ) ) {
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'enterprise_home_loop_helper', 1 );
}
}

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[tsolignani]

Thank you. It works.

Still... It's not just what I would like to have.

If you have a look at my home page, at http://blog.solignani.it, you see the 3 footers are graphically separated from the rest of the page, in a shadow of their own.

Whereas the home middle are glued together with posts. That's not only an eye issue, I cannot put the third widget, if I did it would get displayed at the bottom of the second one.

What I would like to obtain is an home page where the home middle widgets stay into a bubble of their own, like the footer ones, separated from both posts and primary sidebar.

Do you think I can do it?

Thanks again, and let me know if and how I can acknowledge your help into the matter.
–
cordialmente,

tiziano solignani, da  Mac
http://blog.solignani.it

 

 

[cehwitham]

Ypu'll need to find where the middle widgets are being hooked into the template then unhook them and add them back in before_content_sidebar_wrap.

You should then be able to style them in a separate bubble, maybe copy the styles from the footer widgets?

This might be useful: http://my.studiopress.com/docs/hook-reference/

Chris

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[tsolignani]

That's a bit beyond me.

This is what I got into functions.php, is that useful?

<?php
/** Start the engine */
require_once( TEMPLATEPATH . '/lib/init.php' );

/** Child theme (do not remove) */
define( 'CHILD_THEME_NAME', 'Enterprise Theme' );
define( 'CHILD_THEME_URL', 'http://www.studiopress.com/themes/enterprise' );

$content_width = apply_filters( 'content_width', 600, 420, 900 );

/** Add new featured image sizes */
add_image_size('mini', 65, 65, TRUE);
add_image_size('homepage', 270, 80, TRUE);
add_image_size('slideshow', 600, 235, TRUE);

/** Add support for post formats */
add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array(
'aside',
'audio',
'chat',
'gallery',
'image',
'link',
'quote',
'status',
'video'
) );
/** Add support for custom background */
add_custom_background();

/** Add support for custom header */
add_theme_support( 'genesis-custom-header', array( 'width' => 960, 'height' => 120, 'textcolor' => '333', 'admin_header_callback' => 'enterprise_admin_style' ) );

/**
* Register a custom admin callback to display the custom header preview with the
* same style as is shown on the front end.
*
*/
function enterprise_admin_style() {

$headimg = sprintf( '.appearance_page_custom-header #headimg { background: url(%s) no-repeat; font-family: Droid Sans, arial, serif; min-height: %spx; }', get_header_image(), HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT );
$h1 = sprintf( '#headimg h1, #headimg h1 a { color: #%s; font-size: 36px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 42px; margin: 25px 0 0; text-decoration: none; }', esc_html( get_header_textcolor() ) );
$desc = sprintf( '#headimg #desc { color: #%s; }', esc_html( get_header_textcolor() ) );

printf( '<style type="text/css">%1$s %2$s %3$s</style>', $headimg, $h1, $desc );

}

/** Add support for 3-column footer widgets */
add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 3 );

/** Register widget areas */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-top-1',
'name' => __( 'Home Top #1', 'enterprise' ),
'description' => __( 'This is home top #1 section.', 'enterprise' ),
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-top-2',
'name' => __( 'Home Top #2', 'enterprise' ),
'description' => __( 'This is home top #2 section.', 'enterprise' ),
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-middle-1',
'name' => __( 'Home Middle #1', 'enterprise' ),
'description' => __( 'This is home middle #1 section.', 'enterprise' ),
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-middle-2',
'name' => __( 'Home Middle #2', 'enterprise' ),
'description' => __( 'This is home middle #2 section.', 'enterprise' ),
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-middle-3',
'name' => __( 'Home Middle #3', 'enterprise' ),
'description' => __( 'This is home middle #3 section.', 'enterprise' ),
) );

[cehwitham]

In the code I got you to change above in home.php change:

add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'enterprise_home_loop_helper', 1 );

to

add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'enterprise_home_loop_helper', 1 );

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[tsolignani]

Thank you.

Almost there! Now I can display all three widget, only they are not in a bubble on their own.

Anyway, thanks again, it's much better now. I left it on line, should you wish to have a look.

Have a nice day.
–
cordialmente,

tiziano solignani, da  Mac
http://blog.solignani.it

[cehwitham]

Try making it:

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'enterprise_home_loop_helper' );

That should split it out of the #inner wrapper.

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[tsolignani]

Yes, but the result is ...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/134544/Schermata%202013-02-22%20alle%2011.45.25.png

[cehwitham]

The Dropbox file isn't working. Once you've moved it out of #inner, you'll need to style it up to match the footer widgets as I mentioned previously.

Chris

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[tsolignani]

Dropbox is still uploading it, please get back in 5 minutes (I have no idea how come is taking so long, the file is small).

The issue is not a style one, but a structure, to me.

Thanks.

 
–
cordialmente,

tiziano solignani, da  Mac
http://blog.solignani.it

[tsolignani]

Now it works, sorry for the delay.

Thank you.

 
–
cordialmente,

tiziano solignani, da  Mac
http://blog.solignani.it

[cehwitham]

That looks fine, it's above the #inner wrap so you can style it separately.

I suggest you look at line 1443 in style.css where #footer-widgets is defined and you can copy of of the styles from that.

Without seeing it live on your site I can't advise further on exactly what the styles need to be.

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