How Can I Hook a Widget Area on Just the Blog Page?

[Kabolobari]

Hi, can someone help?

I'm trying to hook a widget area to show just on the main blog archive page, but not on other pages or single post areas.

I have used the following codes:

//* Register Blog Page After Header Widget Area
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'bp-after-header',
'name' => __( 'Blog Page After Header', 'wintersong' ),
'description' => __( 'Place stuff here to show before post on blog page', 'wintersong' ),
) );

//* Hook Blog Page After Header Widget Area
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'add_bp_after_header' );
function add_bp_after_header() {
if ( is_page( 'blog' ) )
genesis_widget_area( 'bp-after-header', array(
'before' => '<div class="bp-after-header widget-area">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );
}

But while I can see the widget area within my dashboard on the widget section, meaning it registered, I cannot see anything I place in it on the live site (front-end). I guess it has to do with the 'hooking' code. Since I have a very poor understanding of PHP/WordPress, could someone help look at it and correct?

Thanks a great deal.

PS. I've done something similar on this page, but it's a category page and I can't seem to replicate it: http://kabolobari.com/book.

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KB

http://kabolobari.com

[Victor Font]

It's most likely your use of is_page(). The is_page() function with a text argument ('blog') is looking for a post on the page with the title or slug of blog. If you want to reference the page itself, you have to use the page id: is_page( 10 ). You can learn more about the function here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_page

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[Kabolobari]

Thanks very much, Victor Front. Is this what you mean?

if ( is_page( '79' ) )

Now, did you help me check, are other lines correct except this one? Because I'm gonna try this option and see if it ouputs to the blog page.

Thanks.

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KB

[Kabolobari]

Hi, Victor Font, see I've just tried this and still don't see it output!

//* Hook Blog Page After Header Widget Area
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'add_bp_after_header' );
     function add_bp_after_header() {
     if ( is_page( '79' ) )
          genesis_widget_area( 'bp-after-header', array(
               'before' => '<div class="bp-after-header widget-area">',
               'after' => '</div>',
     ) );
}

I used this code:

//* Create Custom Category Archive Widget Area
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
    'id'          => 'book-category-widget',
    'name'        => __( 'Book Category Widget', 'wintersong' ),
    'description' => __( 'This is the widget section for the Book Category Page.', 'wintersong' ),
) );

//* Hook Category Widget Area Before Post Content
add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'wintersong_category_archive_widget' );
    function wintersong_category_archive_widget() {
    if ( is_category(38) )
    genesis_widget_area( 'book-category-widget', array(
        'before' => '<div class="book-category-widget widget-area">',
        'after'  => '</div>',
    ) );
}

However, notice similar code won't work for the blog archive:

I hope you understand what I mean and can just help with the right code. Thanks.

Thanks.

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KB

[Kabolobari]

Hi, Victor Font, here's too Dropbox links to the screenshots I referenced in my response above. I notice the images did not display:

1. Category Page (kabolobari.com/book): https://www.dropbox.com/s/gm8lmjvvet9svzi/kabolobari-book.jpg?dl=0
2. Blog Page (kabolobari.com/blog): https://www.dropbox.com/s/vna0oos3fwuxuwg/kabolobari-blog.jpg?dl=0

Thanks.

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KB

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