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Move Genesis Sidebar

April 9, 2011 By Travis Smith 1 Comment

There are many times due to adding various actions that I will accidentally do something (like adding an additional wrap wrongly) that will cause havoc on my sidebar where my sidebar will appear below my content. What happens is that the #sidebar is now subordinate to #content instead of them appearing together in #content-sidebar-wrap (or whatever). So I have found a simple solution for this when this happens. I move my sidebar up.

I simply add this to my functions.php file:

remove_action('genesis_sidebar','genesis_do_sidebar');
add_action('genesis_before_content', 'genesis_do_sidebar');

Yes, I recognize that this is only a bandaid, but…

Filed Under: Genesis Tagged With: Content, content-sidebar-wrap, sidebar

How to Make My Own Genesis Child Theme Sidebar Available and Not the Default Primary and Secondary Sidebars

March 29, 2011 By Travis Smith Leave a Comment

So if you want to make the two original sidebars unavailable, you first need to unregister those sidebars. To do this, add the following to your functions.php file.

//Unregister Sidebars
unregister_sidebar('sidebar');
unregister_sidebar('sidebar-alt');

// Remove Default Genesis Sidebar
remove_action('genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar');

Then you need to register your new widget area:

add_action('genesis_sidebar', 'child_do_sidebar');
function child_do_sidebar() { ?>
<?php    if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Child Sidebar') ){    ?><?php    }    ?>
<?php }

Then add your Child Sidebar:

// Add Child Sidebar
genesis_register_sidebar(array(
 'name'=>'Child Sidebar',
 'id' => 'sidebar-primary',
 'description' => 'This is the primary Child sidebar',
 'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s"><div>',
 'after_widget'  => "</div></div>n",
 'before_title'  => '<h4><span>',
 'after_title'   => "</span></h4>n"
));

Filed Under: Genesis, Tutorials Tagged With: primary sidebar, secondary sidebar, sidebar, sidebar-alt, sidebars

How to Unregister or Remove the Secondary Sidebar

March 26, 2011 By Travis Smith 2 Comments

Ever get the question, “I placed my widget in the sidebar but it doesn’t appear! Why!?” only to discover that they moved the item to the Secondary Sidebar. How about just removing that sidebar altogether? Here’s how:

unregister_sidebar('sidebar-alt');

Filed Under: Genesis, Tutorials Tagged With: register, sidebar, unregister

How to Switch Primary Sidebar to Secondary Sidebar for a Specific Page in Genesis

March 24, 2011 By Travis Smith 2 Comments

For one of my sites, the person wanted to use two different sidebars: one for his store and another for his blog. The rest of the site was full-width layout. So we used the two sidebars: Primary (sidebar) and Secondary (sidebar-alt). So here’s how to switch sidebars (without using Nathan’s phenomenal plugin Simple Sidebars) using functions.php.

//switch sidebars
add_action('get_header','change_genesis_sidebar');
function change_genesis_sidebar() {
    $pages = array(181);

    if ( is_page($pages)) {
        remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );
        add_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar_alt' );
    }
}

This code can be easily adapted to be done based on category, archives, author, etc. See the conditional tags for more details.

Filed Under: Genesis, Tutorials Tagged With: conditional, primary, secondary, sidebar