Make Slider homepage widget available on all pages

[MakeYourselfVisible]

Hi there,

I'm using the Executive Child theme and I'm wondering how to get the slider home-page widget area to become available on all pages? Basically I want the slider to show on all pages...same slideshow is fine.

Thanks!

David

[SoZo]

You would need to move the slider widget area function from home.php and put it into functions.php in a new function using the after_header hook.

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[MakeYourselfVisible]

Thanks SoZo. I'm kind of a programming n00b but do you mean like this?

 

<?php genesis_after_header(); ?>

(copied function from home.php)

[SoZo]

Which version of the theme are you using? What is your URL?

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[MakeYourselfVisible]

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[SoZo]

Ok, made me think you were using 1.0 since you had php open/close tags in your code.

Remove this from home.php

genesis_widget_area( 'home-slider', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-slider widget-area">',
		) );

and then add this to functions.php

add_action('genesis_after_header', 'home_slider');
function home_slider(){
genesis_widget_area( 'home-slider', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-slider widget-area">',
		) );
}

To learn more see the intro to hooks

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[MakeYourselfVisible]

That worked for getting the slider on all pages! Unfortunately it didn't take the styling with it. Will I have to copy over the other functions that pertain to home_slider from home.php to functions.php as well?

[SoZo]

Ah, yes. Now it's outside the content div so go into the style sheet and find the slider rules starting on line 456 and change the #content in all the selectors to #wrap, e.g.

#content #genesis-responsive-slider

becomes

#wrap #genesis-responsive-slider

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[MakeYourselfVisible]

I changed all instances of #content to #wrap but it's still not formatting. Anything else I need to move over to functions.php? There's a couple other things calling home-slider in home.php.

[SoZo]

Looks right to me. Try clearing your browser cache.

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[MakeYourselfVisible]

Yes that is it! Thank you Sozo! They need a beer-pal website so I can send you a cold one. Much appreciated.

The only issue now is how it looks in IE9. I will look through the forums to see if anyone's run into any styling problems with IE9.

Thanks again!

David

[SoZo]

You're welcome 🙂

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[henryyoung101]

Would it be the same to add the "Home #1" through #4 widget area (below "Home Featured" widget area) on another page?  (in Outreach theme)
http://crossings.direcconnec.com/?page_id=13
My Goal is to have an main image area where the slider is currently is and a small slider to the right on Home page.  This was done by  setting the "front page displays" to "static page".  But I loose the Home#1 - #4 areas by doing this.
An alternative is leaving the default "Reading" settings and add another widget area next to the slider.  I could do this but so far unable to shrink the slider to make room for another widget to line-up horizontally.
Thanks,
Henry

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