How to assign a different sidebar to the homepage?

[glasertech]

Hello,

We need a special sidebar for the homepage. We tried to use the "Genesis - Simple Sidebars" plugin, but we cannot assign the new sidebar to the hompage.

Another solution could be to assign a different sidebar as the primary sidebar to ALL post pages.

Is there a solution with not too much coding effort and keeping the automatical upgrade capability?

Thank You in advance,
Max Glaser

[Chris Cree]

Which theme are you using, Max? Also it would help to share a link to your site when asking for help here.

In the meantime, I think this should work in most cases. Add this to your functions.php file.

add_action( 'get_header', 'child_home_sidebar_switch' );
function child_home_sidebar_switch() {
	if( is_front_page() ) {
		remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-sidebar');
	}
}

You will also need to add the new home-sidebar to your functions.php file too. Here's the code to do this.

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'			=> 'home-sidebar',
	'name'			=> __( 'Home Sidebar', 'genesis' ),
	'description'	=> __( 'This is the Homepage Sidebar.', 'genesis' ),
) );

[glasertech]

Chris,

Thank you for your answer. We are using the news theme. I already added your code on the functions.php file in the news themes directory, an I can see the "Home Sidebar", but how can I assign it to the homepage?

[glasertech]

Chris,

Thank You! Finally I understood the Genesis Hook and Sidebar APIs 🙂

My solution is to add into the file functions.php in the child's theme directory the following code:


add_action( 'get_header', 'child_home_sidebar_switch' );
function child_home_sidebar_switch() {
if( is_front_page() ) {
remove_action( 'genesis_after_content', 'genesis_get_sidebar' );
add_action( 'genesis_after_content', 'child_get_home_sidebar' );
}
}

function child_get_home_sidebar() {
echo '';
get_sidebar( 'home' );
echo '';
}

and to create the following new file sidebar-home.php also in the child's theme directory

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