How to get a Home Page Widget to Display on All pages

[Lisa at OGParticipant Post count: 39]

I’d like to get one of the widgets on my home page to display on ALL inside pages as well. I tried using the plugin Display Widgets to make things quick and easy but it was unresponsive. I suspect this will require a change to PHP.  Here is a link to the site in progress: http://www.englishscholar.ca/wordpress/. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks.

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[SusanModerator Post count: 3182]

Try this:

http://www.briangardner.com/welcome-text-widget/

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[Lisa at OGParticipant Post count: 39]

Yes, I have registered the widget and it displays where I want it on the home page; but the tutorial link doesn’t tell me how to get it to display on all pages — not just the home page.

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[SusanModerator Post count: 3182]

I followed the instructions, and it appears on the top of all of my pages…

(Link to my test site here:)

 

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[Lisa at OGParticipant Post count: 39]

Hi Susan,

I did try it myself on my own page; but, when I use the simple hooks and place the code here: genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap, it doesn’t include a full background width — it is sized to 960px. I would like the welcome message to be exactly as it is now (repeating background full screen width) with text 960; but on every page. Using your suggestion, is there a way to get the background full width??

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[anitacModerator Post count: 2673]

Lisa, which widget do you want on all the pages? What content appears in that widget? Also, can you copy/paste your code in here so we can see what you have going on?

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[Lisa at OGParticipant Post count: 39]

Susan and Anita — thanks for your assistance with this. Much appreciated. Here is a link again to the site in progress: http://www.englishscholar.ca/wordpress. The section I want to display on every page is the home-bottom-message directly above footer 1, 2 and 3 area (it has association logos in it with a full width gray background). Here is the CSS code I have right now:

.home-bottom-message-wrap {
background: url(“http://www.englishscholar.ca/wordpress/wp-content/themes/legacy/images/home-bottom-message-bkgd.png”) repeat-x scroll 0 0 transparent;
/*  border-top: 1px solid #eee; */
clear: both;
color: #666;
line-height: 30px;
/*  padding: 40px 0 0;    */
padding: 0px 0 0;
height: 138px;
}

.home-bottom-message-inner {
width: 960px;
clear: both;
color: #666;
line-height: 30px;
text-align: centre;
margin: 0 auto
}

For home php the code is:

if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘home-bottom-message’ ) ) {
echo ‘<div class=”home-bottom-message-wrap”><div class=”home-bottom-message-inner”>’;
dynamic_sidebar( ‘home bottom message’ );
echo ‘</div><!– end .home-bottom-message-wrap –></div><!– end .home-bottom-message-inner –>’;
}

For functions.php the code is:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
‘id’            => ‘home-bottom-message’,
‘name’            => __( ‘Home Bottom Message’, ‘legacy’ ),
‘description’    => __( ‘This is the bottom section of the homepage right before the footer.’, ‘legacy’ ),
) );

Thanks.

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[anitacModerator Post count: 2673]

You don’t have anything else in the functions.php that provides code for that area? Something that might look like this? I just modified the welcome widget code to this –

/** Add the home-bottom-message section */
add_action( ‘genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap’, ‘home-bottom-message’ );
function custom_welcome_text() {
genesis_widget_area( ‘home-bottom-message’, array(
‘before’ => ”,
) );
}

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[anitacModerator Post count: 2673]

Actually it should be in the – genesis_after_content_sidebar_wrap – area, not the one I posted.

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[Lisa at OGParticipant Post count: 39]

Anita, I used Genesis Simple Hooks to try it in the -genesis_after_content_sidebar_wrap. The suggestion you make is effective to place the home-bottom-message text on every page; but the problem still remains on how to add that full width background (only to that section)?

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Website: http://www.originalginger.com

[anitacModerator Post count: 2673]

Do you mean the grey background in that widget area only? It should stay full width when you apply the code. I just checked your website. I don’t see the code added there.

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[Lisa at OGParticipant Post count: 39]

Sorry Anita, I removed the code when it wasn’t working.

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