In Outreach, Home Top & Home Bottom Missing in Widget Area

[sylvia browder]

Hi Everyone,
I am working on a new website using Outreach and Home Top & Home Bottom is missing in the widget area. So, there is no way to configure 'genesis responsive slider' to home top and the 4 widgets horizontally across the Home Page bottom. Why are these widget areas missing? HELP!

[Victor Font]

Look in functions.php and front-page.php and see if anything has been commented out.If that doesn't work, download a new copy of the theme.

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[sylvia browder]

Hi Victor,
Do you mean look within the forum for responses about functions.php and front-page.php? Just trying to understand your suggestion?

[brock]

He is suggesting that you look inside your themes files to see if something has been removed, as that is the only reason they would not be showing up.

In your functions.php file, the code you are checking for is

//* Register widget areas
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'home-top',
	'name'        => __( 'Home - Top', 'outreach' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the top section of the Home page.', 'outreach' ),
) );
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'home-bottom',
	'name'        => __( 'Home - Bottom', 'outreach' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the bottom section of the Home page.', 'outreach' ),
) );

Then, in your front-page.php file you are looking for this code:

function outreach_home_top_widgets() {

	genesis_widget_area( 'home-top', array(
		'before' => '<div class="home-top widget-area">',
		'after'  => '</div>',
	) );
	
}

function outreach_home_bottom_widgets() {
	
	genesis_widget_area( 'home-bottom', array(
		'before' => '<div class="home-bottom widget-area"><div class="wrap">',
		'after'  => '</div></div>',
	) );

}

If either of these files is missing the respective code that is your problem. You want to make sure the theme has not been modified by you or someone else. Downloading a new copy and installing it would ensure that.

[sylvia browder]

Thank you very much.

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