In one of my previous posts, Pam asked in the comments:
I recently added the Genesis Sidebars plugin. As this is all very new to me. I was wondering if this plugin can be used, perhaps in conjunction with the Genesis Extender plugin (I do not have that one) to do what you show above?
Genesis Sidebars plugin is not needed once you have Genesis Extender. With Genesis Extender you can manage sidebars (widget areas) plus more.
In this article I am going to provide instructions to overlay content of a widget area on the background image that appears below header in Minimum Pro. We are going to use Genesis Extender - meaning we do not make any changes in theme's functions.php or style.css.
Step 1
Go to Extender Custom > Conditionals and add a new entry for is_front_page() || is_home() like so:
