Hi all,
I am now a proud user of the Power Blog Theme.
There are four additional widget areas including a new 'Crown Aside' that sits above both the Primary (left) and Secondary (right) Asides.
I would like to create a fifth additional widget area below each of the main asides, however my attempts at editing the functions.php throw up some funny results.
Can anyone help me create a new 'Below Aside'?
Thank you in advance,
Tom
Hey Tom,
try this one:
// This will create your widget area
function my_widgets_init() {
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => 'Below MainAside',
'id' => 'below-mainaside',
'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widgetcontainer %2$s">',
'after_widget' => "</li>\n",
'before_title' => "<h3 class=\"widgettitle\">",
'after_title' => "</h3>\n",
));
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_widgets_init' );
// adding the widget area to your child theme
function my_sidebar_widgets() {
if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && is_sidebar_active('below-mainaside') ) {
echo '<div id="below-mainaside" class="aside">'. "\n" . '<ul class="xoxo">' . "\n";
dynamic_sidebar('header-aside');
echo '' . "\n" . '</ul>'. "\n";
echo '' . "\n" . '</div><!-- #below-mainaside .aside -->'. "\n";
}
}
add_action('thematic_belowmainasides', 'my_sidebar_widgets');Haven't tested this one, it's a rewrite of my widgetized area in the header.
You might want to change the markup according to your needs.
Cheers,
Chris
Hi Chris,
Thanks as always for the helping hand.
Unfortunately the code has not resolved my problem, because the widget area (with a text widget activated within it) does not appear in thematic_belowmainasides.
Perhaps it is to do with the following code from the functions.php:
// Close div#sidebar
function childtheme_sidebarend() { ?>
</div><!-- #sidebar -->
<?php }
add_action('thematic_belowmainasides','childtheme_sidebarend');
Perhaps you could take a look at my blog?
It's http://digitalcortex.net.
Thank you once again,
Tom
Sorry .. forgot to change one sidebar name (reason why below-mainaside didn't display) and added a prio to the action (below-mainaside will now be in the sidebar area).
This code is tested:
// This will create your widget area
function my_widgets_init() {
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => 'Below MainAside',
'id' => 'below-mainaside',
'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widgetcontainer %2$s">',
'after_widget' => "</li>\n",
'before_title' => "<h3 class=\"widgettitle\">",
'after_title' => "</h3>\n",
));
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_widgets_init');
// adding the widget area to your child theme
function my_sidebar_widgets() {
if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && is_sidebar_active('below-mainaside') ) {
echo '<div id="below-mainaside" class="aside">'. "\n" . '<ul class="xoxo">' . "\n";
dynamic_sidebar('below-mainaside');
echo '' . "\n" . '</ul>'. "\n";
echo '' . "\n" . '</div><!-- #below-mainaside .aside -->'. "\n";
}
}
add_action('thematic_belowmainasides', 'my_sidebar_widgets', 0);Cheers,
Chris
Awesome - thanks a lot!
Quick note on implementing this:
If you copy the stylings for the existing 'Crown Aside' and rename them 'Below-MainAside' make sure you modify your border-top or you'll end up with 2px of border rather than 1px.
Best,
Tom
Thanks Tom ! Good advice and great idea to have a Below-MainAside widget, I implemented it on my blog and am very happy with it :)
cheers,
Tom
hi,
i tried to get the widgetarea working, and it does, but i want it to have a border at the top. how can i fix that?
thanks a lot
jan
I think i can follow all that, but I’m puzzled in which *.php this should go and where.
This goes into the functions.php of the Power Blog Theme.
Cheers,
Chris
Dang, right. I knew that I read that somewhere… couldn’t recall. Sorry & thanks, Chris.
Chris,
Is there a way to add the belowmainasides widget when there already is the added header-asides widget? I get the error message " ... my_widgets_init" already declared. When I delete the header-aside, your belowmainasides widget works fine.
Thanks, Dave
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