Widget area below featured article in eleven40

[michaeloeser]

Hi everyone,

I wonder how I can place a widget area right below the first (featured) article on the grid homepage of eleven40. I have one featured article followed by a two-column grid. I like the widget area display right after the frist article.

I know how to setup widget areas and how to implement them in general but I can´t find a way to integrate a widget area after the featured article in eleven40. I assume there must be a hook or filter but I haven´t found it.

Cheers
Michael

[Brad Dalton]

You can hard code it into the front-page.php file or hook it in using a custom function. http://wpsites.net/web-design/adding-new-widget-areas-in-studiopress-themes/

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[michaeloeser]

Hi Brad,

thanks for the quick reply. That´s exactly what I thought I should do but I´m confused. See the code of my child themes home.php

<?php

remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'eleven40_grid_loop_helper' );
/** Add support for Genesis Grid Loop */
function eleven40_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features' => 1,
			'feature_image_size' => 0,
			'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size'		=> 'thumbnail',
			'grid_image_class'		=> 'alignleft',
			'grid_content_limit' => 150,
			'more' => __( '[Continue reading]', 'genesis' ),
	) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

genesis();

Where should I add it? And I didn´t find a proper hook for this. Any hints?

Thanks
Michael

[Brad Dalton]

Before the closing genesis(); tag

No need for a conditional tag.

Also, the first part of the code to register the widget goes in your functions file.

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[michaeloeser]

Hmmm...not quite. When I do this in home.php

<?php

remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'eleven40_grid_loop_helper' );
/** Add support for Genesis Grid Loop */
function eleven40_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features' => 1,
			'feature_image_size' => 0,
			'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size'		=> 'thumbnail',
			'grid_image_class'		=> 'alignleft',
			'grid_content_limit' => 150,
			'more' => __( '[Continue reading]', 'genesis' ),
	) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

 function eleven40_after_featured() {
   genesis_widget_area( 'ad-homepage-only', array(
       'before' => '<div class="ad-homepage-only widget-area">',
   ) );
}

genesis();

It displays the widget area before the first (featured) post. I want it right after this post.

Ideas?

[Brad Dalton]

Wheres the add_action for this function eleven40_after_featured() {

You will need to add all the code in your functions file and use a counter to output the widget after the 1st post in the loop

http://wpsites.net/web-design/add-content-after-any-number-of-post-excerpts-in-any-type-of-archive/

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[michaeloeser]

Awesome. Works now. But the genesis_after_entry hook seems to be invalid. I used genesis_after_post_content and it works.

Thanks
Michael

[Brad Dalton]

Are you running HTML 5 or XHTML markup?

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[michaeloeser]

Still XHTML on this site

[Brad Dalton]

That's why the hook didn't work because its the new HTML 5 loop hook http://my.studiopress.com/docs/genesis-loop-hooks-comparison/

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