Adding new widget areas in Suffusion
Sometimes we need more widget areas below Suffusion header or above the footer, as it was asked recently on Suffusion Forum and is not so hard to obtain how many areas we want with few lines of code.
Of course, for this kind of changes we need a child theme.
1. For adding a new widget area below header, add in functions.php of your child theme:
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register_sidebar(array ( "name" => "Second Widget Area Below Header", 'id' => 'sidebar-head-1', "description" => "This appears above the content, just below the header. It is as wide as the page.", 'before_widget' => '', "before_title" => ' ', "after_title" => '' )); |
Now, by ftp, COPY sidebar-below-header.php from /suffusion/ to your child theme folder. Edit the copy and add at the very end of file, after the last “ ?> “
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<!-- sidebar-head-1 Widget Area --> <div id="sidebar-head-1" class="dbx-group echo $suf_wa_wabh_style;?> warea fix"> if ( !dynamic_sidebar('Second Widget Area Below Header') ) : ?> endif; ?> </div> <!-- /sidebar-head-1 --> |
2. For a new widget area above footer, the procedure is the same. First, register the new sidebar in functions.php of the child theme:
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register_sidebar(array ( "name" => "Second Widget Area Above Footer", 'id' => 'sidebar-footer-1', "description" => "This appears below the content, just above the footer. It is as wide as the page.", 'before_widget' => '', "before_title" => ' ', "after_title" => '' )); |
Then copy by ftp sidebar-above-footer.php from /suffusion/ to your child theme folder and at the end of the file, after the last “ ?> ” add:
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<!-- sidebar-footer-1 Widget Area --> <div id="sidebar-footer-1" class=" echo $suf_wa_waaf_style; ?> warea fix"> if ( !dynamic_sidebar('Second Widget Area Above Footer') ) : ?> endif; ?> </div> <!-- /sidebar-footer-1 --> |
Ciprian
Experienced web developer and graphic designer. Former consultant for Suffusion theme and former moderator on Suffusion Support forum. I teach others while learning myself.
