New widget area above footer

[Tim Squires]

Hi,
I have been trying to help someone else on the forum, but in doing so I struck my own problem.

I'm trying to help a member to create a new widget area (full page width) to appear above the 3 existing footer widget areas on the Genesis sample theme.

I have successfully created the new widget area, but it appears below the existing widgets, not above them where we need it to be.

This is confusing to me because I used the 'genesis-before-footer' hook, so I thought it would appear before the footer. Somehow I need to swap the order around so that the new widget area is on top.

This is the code that I put into functions.php:

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

//* Hook before footer widget area before site footer
add_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'bg_before_footer_widget_area' );
function bg_before_footer_widget_area() {
genesis_widget_area( 'before-footer', array(
'before' => '<div class="before-footer widget-area"><div class="wrap">',
'after' => '</div></div>',
) );
} 

I have placed calendars into the widget areas just to show where they are with some content.

My sandbox site is here:

Thanks on behalf of both of us 🙂
Cheers,
Tim

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[Carlo]

Hi Tim. Replace this line:

add_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'bg_before_footer_widget_area' );

with this:

add_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'bg_before_footer_widget_area', 5 );

Let me know if that works.

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[Tim Squires]

Hi Carlo, that works! Brilliant, thank you very much.
Cheers,
Tim

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