How to Add Extra (new) Widgets to Navigation Pro Theme’s Footer

[StefanoV]

Dear all,

I use Navigation Pro as my theme and I want to add 3 extra widgets in the footer section.

I know I should add some extra code in the functions.php. I found a website which explains that, If I follow these steps I indeed see them in the widgets section of wordpress, but they are not showing on the website.

Does anyone know, how to do this?

Thank you
Stefano

[Anita]

You may not receive an immediate response to this because Navigation Pro is a new theme as of a few days ago.

I found a website which explains that, If I follow these steps I indeed see them in the widgets section of wordpress, but they are not showing on the website.

What website are you looking at that explains it?

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Love coffee, chocolate and my Bella!

[StefanoV]

Dear Anita,

I know that it is a brand new theme, so I know that it could be that nobody can help me at this moment.

The below site explains how to add a widget to a footer

How to Add Widgets to WordPress Theme’s Footer

I only used the below in the functions.php in my theme, and this shows the widgets in the widget area (so this works).

genesis_register_sidebar(
[
'id' => 'footer-sidebar-1',
'name' => __( 'Footer Sidebar 1', 'navigation-pro' ),
'description' => __( 'Footer Sidebar 1', 'navigation-pro' ),
]
);

genesis_register_sidebar(
[
'id' => 'footer-sidebar-2',
'name' => __( 'Footer Sidebar 2', 'navigation-pro' ),
'description' => __( 'Footer Sidebar 2', 'navigation-pro' ),
]
);

genesis_register_sidebar(
[
'id' => 'footer-sidebar-3',
'name' => __( 'Footer Sidebar 3', 'navigation-pro' ),
'description' => __( 'Footer Sidebar 3', 'navigation-pro' ),
]
);

}

But it seems that I also need to add something in the footer.php to get it active on the website, but the theme does not have a footer.php. So I do not know how to get it also visible on the website.

[Anita]

That's from 2013 and almost 7 years old. Tip: always look for more recent dates on the tutorials.

Navigation Pro has been coded completely different than the traditional StudioPress themes. The one Footer Widget has been wrapped with the other two widget areas. I tried to widen that up on a demo to use Genesis Widget Column Classes plugin, but that doesn't work. So, we'll let this sit here for someone to see if they are able to "re-configure" that area because that's what's needed in Navigation Pro.

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Love coffee, chocolate and my Bella!

[Brad Dalton]

There's 2 steps to creating new widget areas.

Step 1 - Register the new widget areas in functions.php using genesis_register_sidebar

Step 2 - Use genesis_widget_area to output the widget content in any Genesis hook position.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes & WooCommerce.

[StefanoV]

Dear Braddalton,

Thank you for your reply.

Are you able to help me and be more specific. I am not tech geek, so please explain what you mean and how to do it

Thank you
Stefano

[Brad Dalton]

Stefano

The tutorial pretty much does that. Click the link and follow the steps.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes & WooCommerce.

[Anita]

As I mentioned before, Navigation Pro has been coded completely different than the traditional StudioPress themes. The one Footer Widget has been wrapped with the other two widget areas. That area would need to be deconstructed and rebuilt to add additional widgets.

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Love coffee, chocolate and my Bella!

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