Widget Area Above Home-Top Backcountry

[wtechrbr]

I'd like to add 2 widgets above the home-top area of the backcountry theme. Similar to the existing home-left and home-right, but I'd like them to execute them before the home-top section such that they take up the full width before the primary sidebar comes into play.

I know how to register the new widgets, but I'm not sure how to add them correctly in the home.php file as I don't see a reference to the home-top section to execute them before.

Thanks for any help you might be able to give.

[Brad Dalton]

Link to your site please.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[wtechrbr]

Sure - here you go - just getting started on it.

http://dev.girlsontherunrockies.org/

[Brad Dalton]

Try this http://wpsites.net/web-design/add-2-responsive-widgets-side-by-side-in-genesis-2/

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[wtechrbr]

Super helpful - thanks. Was hoping to still use the home-top widget area and was hoping the 2 new widgets would present above home-top, such that I'd have a pair of widgets (left and right), the full-width home-top, then content-sidebar.

[wtechrbr]

Sent too fast....

I tried swapping in a variety of hook placements like genesis_after_header and genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap but none yielded the desired result. I also tried defining a new widget area similar to home-top to be executed right after my new pair of widgets, but for some reason I had an error in my logic and couldn't get it to work. Thought maybe you would have a suggestion for the appropriate hook reference to use such that the new pair would show up prior to the already defined home-top widget area.

Much thanks for the help you've already extended to me. I very much appreciate it.

[Brad Dalton]

Try this:

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[wtechrbr]

Hey - just got a chance to try, and it behaved the same.

home-top executed before newly defined widget areas.

It looks like it needs to be executed just after the subnav. I didn't see a specific hook for that, but maybe its possible.

Thanks again for helping so much.

[Brad Dalton]

When i tested it it worked perfectly. Here's the screenshot.

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[wtechrbr]

Hey - sorry for the lag in response.....

I'm able to get what you have in the screenshot above too. What I am trying to do is get the pre-defined "home-top" to render below my new "above-home-top-left" and "above-home-top-right" widget areas. Such that

Above-Home-Top-Left Above-Home-Top-Right
Home-Top
Home-Left Home-Right

Currently, I can only get it too render as this:

Home-Top
Above-Home-Top-Left Above-Home-Top-Right
Home-Left Home-Right

Thanks again for your help!

[Summer]

Can you try taking the if statement for the home-top out of the function Brad gave you, and put it inside the existing home_loop_helper function, so that the new areas are called in that order in the home.php? Basically remove the add_action, and the function, but put the meat of that function in the other function, as the first if.

That way, home-top, home, and home-bottom are called in the order you need them.

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[wtechrbr]

I will try that - thanks for the suggestion.

I've noticed the home-top is invoked from the functions.php file rather than the home.php file. I think that might be the root of my problem. The functions.php has the following:

/** Add home top section to homepage */
add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'backcountry_home_top' );
function backcountry_home_top() {

if ( is_front_page() && is_active_sidebar( 'home-top' ) ) {
echo '<div id="home-top">';
dynamic_sidebar( 'home-top' );
echo '</div><!-- end #home-top -->';
}

}

I've been invoking my new widget areas from home.php, but maybe I should be putting them in functions.php to correctly invoke them in the order I want and in relation to home-top. Just not sure...

[wtechrbr]

Moved the invocation of the home-top widget from the functions.php file to the home.php file right after the 2 newly defined widget areas.

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