I want to add a "widget" in my No Sidebar post/page

[lwoods]

I want to add a piece of code into my form (or page) content area.  For example, I have a "No Sidebar" page that is an "About Us" but I would like to drop a "Sign up for our Newsletter" box into the content area; maybe on the right, for example.  But I want the content to flow around the box.  In other words it would be the same as having an image in my content but it's a piece of code instead.

How?

Thanks

[Brad Dalton]

Link to that page please.

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[lwoods]

Sorry, but I don't understand your message.  Link to what page?

[Brad Dalton]

Your About Us” page please.

I'd like to take a look.

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[lwoods]

Hi,

Sorry but I haven't built it yet.  Just want to know how to do it.  I think that answer is to find a plugin with a shortcode that I can drop into my content area.

[Brad Dalton]

No worries.

Post this when you have got the site up and i'll give you the solution.

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[Chrissy Marquardt]

Hey Brad, you've helped me out before and Im working on a new project and had the same question. Using the Innov8tive theme for my blog and I was able to figure out how to get my newsletter box to appear below posts but I want it to appear below my About page. I know its some code I have to put in the php file but just not sure what it is

http://www.cleaneatingsimplified.com/about/

Thanks

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[Brad Dalton]

What great timing. I just wrote about this for another community member.

http://www.studiopress.community/topic/modern-portfolio-about-widget/#post-51709

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[Chrissy Marquardt]

Hey Brad,

I read the other post and I had some follow up questions. Here is the code I have at the bottom of my themes php file that I grabbed based on a tutorial Brian Gardener posted on the eNews extended plugin

//* Add the newsletter widget after the post content
add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'custom_add_newsletter_box' );
function custom_add_newsletter_box() {
	if ( is_singular( 'post' ) )
	genesis_widget_area( 'newsletter', array(
		'before' => '<div id="newsletter">',
	) );
}

So I want to add my newsletter sign up box after my about page and my contact me page ( possibly some other pages in the future but we'll start there for now). What code would I put in the php file ?

Thanks again !

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[Brad Dalton]

Change the line for the conditional tag to an array:

if ( is_singular( 'post' ) )

To this:

if (is_page( array( 'about-me', 'contact-me' ) ) )

Use the page slug or page i.d's

If it doesn't work, try removing the single quotes and use the page i.d.

if ( is_page( array( 007, 1180 )  )  )

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[Chrissy Marquardt]

Hey again

Thanks for your help with this. I would like to keep my subscription box below my posts AND have it below the contact me and about page. So would it look like this:

//* Add the newsletter widget after the post content
add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'custom_add_newsletter_box' );
function custom_add_newsletter_box() {
if ( is_singular( 'post' ) )
if (is_page( array( 'about', 'contact-me' ) ) )
genesis_widget_area( 'newsletter', array(
'before' => '<div id="newsletter">',
) );
}
`
Thanks again. Really appreciate your input

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[Brad Dalton]

You could also use this code:

https://gist.github.com/braddalton/6077458

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[lwoods]

Brad:

In the previous reply is "dynamic_sidebar()" a method in a plug-in?

Thanks

[Brad Dalton]

This Conditional Tag checks if the current sidebar has active widgets.

Source http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_dynamic_sidebar

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[lwoods]

Thanks for the info, Brad. I was just trying to figure out what the call to dynamic_sidebar did. In your example it doesn't look like it's doing anything---or am I missing something. The codex doc says that it returns true/false.

[Brad Dalton]

If its a single post or one of 2 pages, it outputs the content of sidebar widget named newsletter. Without the dynamic_sidebar() function, the widget would not work so its essential.

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[lwoods]

Got it. Thanks.

[Chrissy Marquardt]

Just to clarify ( I just want to make sure I dont screw up my php file so sorry for the questions

add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'custom_add_newsletter_box' );
function custom_add_newsletter_box() {
	if ( is_singular( 'post' ) || is_page( array( 'about-me', 'contact-me' ) ) )
	genesis_widget_area( 'newsletter', array(
		'before' => '<div id="newsletter">',
	) );
}
 
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'newsletter',
'name' => __( 'Newsletter', 'wpsitesdotnet' ),
'description' => __( 'Newsletter widget.', 'wpsitesdotnet' )
) );
/**
* @author Brad Dalton - WP Sites
* @example add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'custom_add_newsletter_box' );
function custom_add_newsletter_box() {
	if ( is_singular( 'post' ) || is_page( array( 'about-me', 'contact-me' ) ) )
	genesis_widget_area( 'newsletter', array(
		'before' => '<div id="newsletter">',
	) );
}
 

instead of wpsitesdotnet - I replace this with my site cleaneatingsimplifieddotcom ?
instead of @author Brad Dalton - @author Chrissy Marquardt - Clean Eating Simplified
instead of @example http://wp.me/p1Tu0-9Jr - @link http://cleaneatingsimplified.com/about/

@link http://cleaneatingsimplified.com/contact-me

Here is where I am unclear. I am not sure what I am supposed to be putting here ? What do I replace this with - is it the link to my about page and my contact page ? Do I leave it as @example ? Do I put it twice ?

Thanks !

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[Brad Dalton]

Try this:

https://gist.github.com/braddalton/6093219

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[Brad Dalton]

You can replace the about' and contact-me words with the page i'd's for those 2 pages which you can grab from the body class in the source code. Simply right click each page and view source code to find it.

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