Sridhar Katakam

Genesis and WordPress Tutorials

How to add a Top News widget area below Home 1 section in Centric Pro

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In the tutorial requests Trello board, a user asked:

I was wondering if it would be possible for a tutorial to add a widget are to Centric like home-top-new in Kickstart? I would like to use this widget are to draw attention to a specific page

This tutorial provides the steps to register a Home Top (News Row) widget area and display its contents below Home 1 widget area on the front page in Centric Pro, similar to that in Kickstart Pro.

Tested in Centric Pro v1.1

Step 1

In Centric Pro's functions.php, below

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
    'id'          => 'home-widgets-1',
    'name'        => __( 'Home 1', 'centric' ),
    'description' => __( 'This is the first section of the home page.', 'centric' ),
) );

add

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
    'id'          => 'home-top-news',
    'name'        => __( 'Home Top (News Row)', 'centric' ),
    'description' => __( 'Widget area for the Home Top (News) row.', 'centric' ),
) );

Step 2

In front-page.php,

a) change

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  • Thanks … works nicely.

    I had figured out most of it but after looking at the tutorial I realized I missed:

    is_active_sidebar( ‘home-top-news’ ) in step 2a.

    And … you are a lot better at CSS. So, all fixed and up and running. Thanks again.

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