Extra widget under heading not showing on front page

[ToniLaird]

Perhaps I closed another post too soon! I added the same code to my live site and the widget shows up in the admin widgets section but nothing displays on the front page. Any ideas?

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genesis_register_sidebar( array(
‘id’ => ‘home-feature’,
‘name’ => __( ‘Home Feature’, ‘domain’ ),
‘description’ => __( ‘Add Content Here’, ‘domain’ ),
) );

add_action( ‘genesis_after_header’, ‘home-feature’ );

function home-feature() {

if ( is_front_page() && is_active_sidebar(‘home-feature’) ) {

genesis_widget_area( ‘home-feature’, array(

‘before’ => ‘<div class=”home-feature home-feature”>’,

‘after’ => ‘</div>’,

) );

}

}

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[nunotmp]

I am not familiar with with the metro-pro theme but you may need to change your conditional from is_front_page() to is_home

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[ToniLaird]

If I do that it will show on every page? I only want this on the front static page. Strange thing is it worked fine on my local server!

[nunotmp]

If you are using a static front page then yes, you are using the correct conditional. Where are you adding the function? Are you adding it to your functions.php fie?

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[ToniLaird]

Hi there

Yes I added this to my functions.php file. It shows the widget in the admin but when I publish any widget to that position nothing shows.

[nunotmp]

Try this.

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'home_feature' );

function home_feature() {

	if ( is_front_page() ) {

		genesis_widget_area( 'home-feature', array( 
				'before' => '<div class="home-feature home-feature">',
				'after' => '</div>',
			) );
	}

}

There is are a couple of problems with your code.
1. add_action( ‘genesis_after_header’, ‘home-feature’ ); You need to use underscores when naming functions instead of hyphens(-).
2. When using genesis_widget_area you do not need to check is_active_sidebar() genesis does this internally.

Let me know if this works.

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[ToniLaird]

PERFECT thank you. That worked for me. really appreciate your support. 😉

[nunotmp]

Great! You are welcome. 🙂

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