Balance Theme: display featured left & right widgets sitewide

[fscoParticipant Post count: 11]

Hi,

After looking at my functions.php file, I couldn’t find how to tell WP to display the “Featured Right/Left” widgets sitewide and would greatly appreciate if you can tell me how and where to do this.

Thanks a lot in advance!

[SoZoModerator Post count: 1573]

That function is in home.php. You’d need to move it to functions.php

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[fscoParticipant Post count: 11]

Thanks Sozo,

I’m using front-page.php instead and I can’t get the code to work yet. Can you please tell me what to change in here to have both widgets to appear sitewide?

This is the current code:


<?php

add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'balance_home_genesis_meta' );
/**
* Add widget support for homepage.
*
*/
function balance_home_genesis_meta() {

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-left' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-right' ) ) {

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'balance_home_loop_helper' );

}
}

/**
* Display widget content for home featured sections.
*
*/
function balance_home_loop_helper() {

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-left' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-right' ) ) {

echo '';

echo '';
dynamic_sidebar( 'home-featured-left' );
echo '';

echo '';
dynamic_sidebar( 'home-featured-right' );
echo '';

echo '';

}

}

genesis();

Regards

[fscoParticipant Post count: 11]

This may be easier to read: http://pastie.org/private/vefkvflxxxrxwfym1z3ja

Regards

[SoZoModerator Post count: 1573]

You have to move the code into functions.php.

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[fscoParticipant Post count: 11]

Understood. I tried to paste the code in my functions.php file but a syntax error appeared, as I don’t really know the language.

Can you tell me what the code should look like following this new page:

http://pastie.org/private/vqblajaqfafxj3rl8e6k0g

I pasted exactly like this and the error appeared.

1. What do I need to change to this code to work?
2. Will this code make both widgets to appear in the entire site?

[fscoParticipant Post count: 11]

After looking at the original code, but trying to display it in the entire site, I came with this code

http://pastie.org/5849119

…but it is causing a Error 500 (Internal Server Error).

I know my syntax is wrong, although I can’t tell where/why.

Can you check it out and help me correct it?

[SoZoModerator Post count: 1573]

You’re missing a closing curly brace at the end and you don’t really need these conditionals

&& ( is_singular() || is_page() || is_archive() ) )

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John “Nicolas Flamel” Wright | SoZo’s design| John Wright Photography

[fscoParticipant Post count: 11]

Nope! Still having problems here.

I’ve deleted the conditionals, added the closing curly brace and also corrected the hook where I want the widget to appear, but when pasting it to my functions.php file, it still causes the same 500 Error.

This is the latest code…

http://pastie.org/5850228

Thanks for all your help!

[fscoParticipant Post count: 11]

Hello anybody?

Any help will be greatly appreciated

[cdilsParticipant Post count: 285]

Hi there,

Re-do your single and double quotes – looks like they are stylized and not plain.

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[surefirewebservParticipant Post count: 62]

500 error usually means that some syntax is wrong.  Check the rest of the code and make sure you have everything ending correctly etc. Ending ; and no missing commas, etc.

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[MarcoParticipant Post count: 57]

I have just copied/pasted the code on http://pastie.org/5850228 at the very end of my functions.php file and it looks good.

Maybe there’s something wrong somewhere else on the functions.php or on the front-page.php.

Could you paste the content of those files?

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Neat & Plain – Genesis and WordPress specialist

[David DeckerModerator Post count: 87]

I also took the code from http://pastie.org/5850228 into a “Balance” test install and placed at the bottom of functions.php and it was working immediately!

Logically all is ok with the code, so there could be something other in your install beside the syntax that is conflicting? Maybe you have other code snippets that hook in via the hook “genesis_after_content”?

Hope this helps, Dave

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[fscoParticipant Post count: 11]

Hello and thanks a lot everyone

@ cdils – commas are ok, but thanks; @ David – That’s the only hook to genesis_after_content but thanks for pointing that out. Please look at the entire file to see if you can spot something else…

@ surefirewebserv, @ Marco – Yep, I also believe the problem is in the syntax elsewhere in the functions.php file, so as you suggest Marco, I’m copying the code in here: http://pastie.org/5940942

Thanks again

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