Extra sidebar area pushes content down

[Elaine Griffin]

Hello,

I have added a wide sidebar above my regular sidebars, and it is pushing my content down, the height of the new sidebar. The only way I can get it back up even with the sidebars is to negative margin in the #content-sidebar-wrap, but then it brings the new sidebar up that amount too.

I have been wracking my brain trying to fix this. I'm guessing it's a simple thing I am over-thinking.

The site is http://www.retro-food.com

Thanks for any help!

Elaine

[Brian Bourn]

Looks to me like you may have used the wrong hook to add the sidebar. To add a widget area above primary sidebar I use the following hook:

add_action( 'genesis_before_sidebar_widget_area', 'your_function_name' );

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[Elaine Griffin]

Thanks Brian. I added my hook to the genesis_before_sidebar hook.

<div class="before-sidebar-ads">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'before-sidebar-ads' ); ?>
</div>

And now it is not showing up at all. Here is what I have in my functions file:

/**add a new sidebar**/
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id'        => 'before-sidebar-ads',
'name'      => 'Before Sidebar Ads',
'description'   => 'This is a sidebar that goes before the sidebar.',
) );
/** Loads a new sidebar before the sidebar */
function child_before_sidebar() {
echo '<div class="before-sidebar-ads">';
dynamic_sidebar( 'before-sidebar-ads' );
echo '</div>';
}
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id'        => 'after-content-widgets',
'name'      => 'After Content widgets',
'description'   => 'This is a sidebar that goes after the content.',
) );

I'm so confused. Every time I think I have a handle on registering sidebars and using hooks, I need help!

 

[Brian Bourn]

This is one way you can do it in your functions file:

add_action( 'genesis_before_sidebar_widget_area', 'child_before_sidebar' );
function child_before_sidebar() {
echo '<div class="before-sidebar-ads">';
dynamic_sidebar( 'before-sidebar-ads' );
echo '</div>';
}

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[Brian Bourn]

You'll also still need to register the widget like you already have.

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[Elaine Griffin]

Hmmm, that gave me the white screen of death.

[Elaine Griffin]

I'm still stuck on this, if anyone can help at all.

I have this in the before_sidebar hook:

<div class=”before-sidebar-ads”>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( ‘before-sidebar-ads’ ); ?>
</div>

Here is what I have in my functions file:

/**add a new sidebar**/
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
‘id’        => ‘before-sidebar-ads’,
‘name’      => ‘Before Sidebar Ads’,
‘description’   => ‘This is a sidebar that goes before the sidebar.’,
) );
/** Loads a new sidebar before the sidebar */
function child_before_sidebar() {
echo ‘<div class="before-sidebar-ads”>’;
dynamic_sidebar( ‘before-sidebar-ads’ );
echo ‘</div>’;
}

I see the sidebar in my dashboard, but not on the site. The site is http://www.retro-food.com

Thank you!

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