Missing footer widget area in Genesis Sample.

[mairagall]

Hello!

I'm using Genesis Sample for my website, and I recently noticed that the Footer widget area is not available under Appearance >> Widgets. I'm using this front page template by Sridhar and I have this widget areas:

Primary Sidebar
Secondary Sidebar
Home Top
Home Middle
Home Bottom
Custom Widget Area (I added this to be placed above the content area in the rest of my pages).

In my functions.php I have:

//* Add support for 3-column footer widgets
add_theme_support( 'mairagall-footer-widgets', 3 );

I deactivated all plugins except WP Maintenance Mode, for obvious reasons, but nothing changed.

I appreciate any suggestion.

Thanks!

[Graham]

Hi, the correct code to add 3 Genesis footer widgets is

//* Add support for 3-column footer widgets
add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 3 );

Tutorial here
http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/add-footer-widgets/

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[SavvyJackie]

Hi,
When I added a custom social footer widget to my theme, I used something like this:

//* Register social footer widget area
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
        'id'          => 'social-footer',
        'name'        => __( 'Social Footer', 'bg' ),
        'description' => __( 'This is the social footer widget area.', 'bg' ),
    ) );

//* Hook social widget area before site footer
add_action( 'genesis_footer', 'bg_social_footer_widget_area', 7 );
function bg_social_footer_widget_area() {

    genesis_widget_area( 'social-footer', array(
            'before' => '<div class="social-footer">',
            'after'  => '</div>',
        ) );

}

I had to register the widget area and then hook it where I wanted it to appear.

Hope that helps.

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[mairagall]

Thanks for your input! I replaced the "genesis" name in my child theme following a tutorial, and that was the problem!

I really appreciate your time!

Thanks again!

[mairagall]

Thanks for your time Jackie, Graham was right, it was a function.php problem.

🙂

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