Genesis Slider on Static Pages

[clarkscondensed]

I am currently working on a client's page, and I am trying to get the slider to show up on the static page -- I tried to follow these instructions:

http://www.carriedils.com/add-slider-minimum-theme/

But the theme she has (innov8tive) doesn't have some of the code that the other theme has. Is there anyway I can make the slider show up on the static homepage? I was able to register a new widget area called "Home Slider" and input the widget for the genesis responsive slider. The site I am working on is itsyummi.com

http://www.itsyummi.com

[Brad Dalton]

Try this http://wpsites.net/web-design/adding-new-widget-areas-in-studiopress-themes/

You will need to change the conditional tag and hook position.

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[clarkscondensed]

Okay, I installed that code, and I think I changed it correctly; my computer is having a hard time updating the site for some reason though -- can you see if slider is working. If not, here is the code I put in:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-slider',
'name' => __( 'Home Slider', 'ItsYummi' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the home slider', 'ItsYummi' ),
) );

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'your_widget' );

function your_widget() {

if ( is_front_page() && is_active_sidebar('new-widget') ) {

genesis_widget_area( 'new-widget', array(

'before' => '<div class="new-widget" class="widget-area">',

'after' => '</div>',

) ); }}

[Brad Dalton]

That won't work.

Please use the code from the tutorial i linked to.

You can then use the Genesis Slider widget in the new widget area.

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[clarkscondensed]

I must be an idiot - I copied and pasted that exact code, and that widget area shows up, but the slider is still not showing up!

[Brad Dalton]

I don't own that theme so hard to test but i did test on the Magazine Pro theme right now and works perfectly.

Does the Developer of your theme offer support?

Here's the new widget which i populated with a calender widget.

Where did you paste the code?

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[clarkscondensed]

It turns out that it does show up. My browsers, for some reason, won't show me changes I make on this site (itsyummi.com) it is showing up. However, I'd like it to show up in the Genesis Loop hook, so it doesn't take up so much space. Would I change this:

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'your_widget' );

to this:

add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'your_widget' );

Thank you for all your help so far.

[Brad Dalton]

You can use any of these these.

I suggest the genesis_before_loop hook

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[clarkscondensed]

Great, thank you! I'll see if that works.

[clarkscondensed]

Well I did that, but it seems to have removed the slider altogether...is there anything else I need to change in that code? This is all in the functions.php folder

[Brad Dalton]

Make sure the slider widget area is populated.

Otherwise you may have an error in the code.

If you paste code here, please add it to a Github Gist and embed it here.

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[clarkscondensed]

I made sure that the genesis widget was placed in the widget area, but no luck.

Here is the code I have in the functions.php file

<script src="https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7393947.js"></script>

[clarkscondensed]

Hmm..that didn't seem to work. Here is the link:

[Brad Dalton]

The widget i.d needs to match the function

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