Full page width slider in Lifestyle theme

[indiedog]

I am a complete nube with Genesis stuff so I apologize if this is a stupid question.

I have the lifestyle theme and installed the Genesis Responsive Slider for the home page. I would like the slider to be full-width, but have a left sidebar underneath. I have already set up the layout in the theme setting and added the slider to the home page, I  have played around with the width setting for the slider but to no avail. Any tips anyone could give me would be great.

here is my site

http://test1.moragareid.com/

Thanks

Morag Reid

 

 

[cehwitham]

If you want the slider to be full width you'll need to add it before the content sidebar wrap.

In functions.php in /wp-content/themes/lifestyle/ add the following code to register a new sidebar:

'home-full-width',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '',
'after_title' => '',
));
?>

Next add a function to output the sidebar:

function display_home_full_sidebar() {
if ( !function_exists( 'dynamic_sidebar' ) || !dynamic_sidebar( 'home-full-width' ) ) {
}}

Then add this to the correct hook to output above the content sidebar wrap:

add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'display_home_full_sidebar');

You can then add the slider widget to the Home Full Sidebar and style it accordingly.

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[brankica]

indiedog, have you tried this? I am thinking of giving it a go, if it worked for you

[indiedog]

No, I couldn't get it to work. The first part broke the functions.php file and frankly wasn't 100% sure I am putting it in the correct place. After reading through the whole thing, I am confused - why would I need to add another side bar? It made no sense so I gave up. If anyone could clarify this for me, I would appreciate it.

[cehwitham]

The add sidebar function just refers to another widget area. It doesn't necessarily mean it is a sidebar like the things that run down the side of your page.

Basically it just allows you to add a widget to an area and then output that area in a given location.

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[indiedog]

Hi there,

I finally got working on this again.  @cehwitham, thanks for the clarification, sorry, but I could just not get your code to work.

@branika, I used this method here: http://pastebin.com/7S31KHym changing it to reflect the Lifestyle theme. (ie change "agentpress" to "lifestyle").

Onwards and upwards.

Morag

 

[cehwitham]

Glad you got it sorted Morag. Thanks for the feedback and link.

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[DaisyMC29]

I just used the code mentioned by indiedog along with the link and it worked perfectly. Thank you!

[frobin]

Where do I add the code posted by Indiedog. Do I add it to my functions php file?

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