Alternative To Genesis Promotion Box?

[JamesPennParticipant Post count: 3]

Hi everyone,

I’d like to add a promotion box to the end of each of my blog posts. I tried out Genesis Promotion Box today but it didn’t quite work out. For some reason I was unable to disable my social media sharing buttons in the box so these were shown at both the top and bottom of the box.

Are there any alternative plug-ins I can use?

Ideally I’ll be able to set a default box that goes on all pages, but perhaps be able to customize individual pages with different boxes.

Any ideas?

Here’s an example of what I want it to look like…

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2013/01/17/double-your-blog-profits-in-2013/

(See the Genesis promotion on the blog post above)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

James

[Dorian SpeedParticipant Post count: 100]

With the caveat that this suggestion may prove completely useless:

I think what I would do is just create a page template with a widgeted area after the content – so, create a file named page_promotion.php, with this as its content:

<?php
/**
 * This file adds the Promotion template to the Child Theme.
 *
 */

/*
Template Name: Promotion
*/

/** Add the promotion widget area */ 
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_promotion_widget' ); 
function child_promotion_widget() { 
    dynamic_sidebar( 'promotion' ); 
} 

genesis();

Register the sidebar 'promotion' in functions.php and use a Genesis Featured Widget Amplified to show the latest post in a category called "promotions" or something.

I believe you could customize individual pages by using multiple instances of the Genesis FWA and excluding/including them.

Like I said...possibly non-helpful.

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[Dorian SpeedParticipant Post count: 100]

I have no idea why, but it’s showing on my screen as “child promotion_widget” and it should be “child_promotion_widget”.

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[JamesPennParticipant Post count: 3]

Hi Dorian

Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I should have mentioned that code – or anything technical for that matter – is pretty much beyond me but if I can’t find a suitable plug-in then I will hire a programmer to do it for me and I will pass on your advice to them.

Thanks,

James

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