Registering New Widget Area

[Mohammed_Ali]

Hi there

I'm registering a new widget area on the studio pro them but it's a bit different from the usual genesis child theme.

For the functions.php file, I updated the following, initially it only went up to front-page-5 so I included front-page-6 and front-page-7:

// Check if any front page widgets are active.
if ( is_active_sidebar( 'front-page-1' ) ||
	is_active_sidebar( 'front-page-2' ) ||
	is_active_sidebar( 'front-page-3' ) ||
	is_active_sidebar( 'front-page-4' ) ||
	is_active_sidebar( 'front-page-5' ) ||
	is_active_sidebar( 'front-page-6' ) ||
	is_active_sidebar( 'front-page-7' ) ) {

Then I included the following:

		// Front page 7 widget area.
		genesis_widget_area( 'front-page-7', array(
		'before' => '<div class="front-page-7 widget-area"><div class="wrap">',
		'after'  => '</div></div>',
		) );

But still, nothing is appearing in the backend of ?‘backend of WordPress appearance/widgets.

How would I go about creating a new widget area on the homepage?

https://iera.staging.wpengine.com

[Brad Dalton]

You also need to register new widget areas which can be done in functions.php

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'front-page-7',
	'name'        => __( 'Front Page 7', 'genesis' ),
) );

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[Mohammed_Ali]

Amazing @braddalton worked like a charm.

I just didn't notice any other genesis_register_sidebar being registered on the functions.php like that.

How comes?

p.s. I've included the code above - the widget area is appearing in the backend, where I'm using both the image and custom HTML widget.

I've updated the CSS so it matches front-page-widget-4's CSS but for some reason, the style isn't copying over...

[Brad Dalton]

Maybe the theme includes another file to register the widget areas.

Make sure the class in the PHP matches an existing class which includes CSS rules.

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