Sridhar Katakam

Genesis and WordPress Tutorials

How to add a widget area above footer widgets’ wrap in Genesis

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This members-only tutorial is based on 3 Methods to Add a Title for Footer Widgets in Genesis and shows how to register a custom footer-wide widget area and output its contents (widgets) above the .wrap inside div.footer-widgets in Genesis.

Step 1

Let's register our custom widget area by adding the following in child theme's functions.php:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
    'id'            => 'footer-wide',
    'name'          => __( 'Footer Wide', 'seasonedpro' ),
    'description'   => __( 'This is the wide widget area above the 4 footer widget areas.', 'seasonedpro' ),
) );

[Optional] Replace seasonedpro with the text_domain of your theme.

Step 2

Go to Appearance > Widgets and drag your desired widget(s) into the "Footer Wide" widget area.

Step 3

Let's use the dynamic genesis_structural_wrap-footer-widgets action hook to inject the output of the above widget area before the footer widgets' wrap.

While still in functions.php, add the following at the end:

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