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The Forums » Topic: thematic and a new widget next to the header? http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/topic/thematic-and-a-new-widget-next-to-the-header Help In Rapid Theme Development en-US Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:15:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/search.php kemilie on "thematic and a new widget next to the header?" http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/topic/thematic-and-a-new-widget-next-to-the-header#post-229 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:32:30 +0000 kemilie 229@http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/ I think i (magically, I might add) have it figured out! thank you for your suggestions and help! kemilie on "thematic and a new widget next to the header?" http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/topic/thematic-and-a-new-widget-next-to-the-header#post-218 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:13:59 +0000 kemilie 218@http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/ hopefully this will work, used the backtick! yes, I'm using a child theme (the thematic powerblog child theme). and today I went out and upgraded to thematic 9.6 (was on 9.5) to see if that made a difference but didn't seem to... maybe I'm missing something basic though? thanks so much!! ' <?php // Load Child Theme scripts // <a href="http://www.cssnewbie.com/example/equal-heights/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cssnewbie.com/example/equal-heights/</a> function childtheme_scripts() { ?> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery.noConflict(); function equalHeight(group) { tallest = 0; group.each(function() { thisHeight = jQuery(this).height(); if(thisHeight > tallest) { tallest = thisHeight; } }); group.height(tallest); } jQuery(document).ready(function() { equalHeight(jQuery(".main-aside")); }); </script> <?php } add_action('wp_head','childtheme_scripts'); // Adds a home link to your menu // <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_page_menu" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_page_menu</a> function childtheme_menu_args($args) { $args = array( 'show_home' => 'Home', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'menu_class' => 'menu', 'echo' => true ); return $args; } add_filter('wp_page_menu_args','childtheme_menu_args'); // Add a drop down category menu function childtheme_category_menu() { if(!is_page()) { ?> <div id="category-access"> <div id="category-menu" class="menu"> <div class="menu-title"><?php _e('Stores:', 'thematic'); ?></div> <ul id="category-nav" class="sf-menu"> <?php wp_list_categories('exclude=1&title_li='); ?> </div> </div> <?php } } add_action('thematic_belowheader','childtheme_category_menu', 5); // Add a widgetized aside just below the header function childtheme_leaderasides() { ?> <?php if ( is_sidebar_active('1st-leader-aside') || is_sidebar_active('2nd-leader-aside') || is_sidebar_active('3rd-leader-aside') ) { // one of the leader asides has a widget ?> <div id="leader"> <div id="leader-container"> <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && is_sidebar_active('1st-leader-aside') ) { // there are active widgets for this aside echo '<div id="first-leader" class="aside sub-aside">'. "\n" . '<ul class="xoxo">' . "\n"; dynamic_sidebar('1st-leader-aside'); echo '' . "\n" . '</div>'. "\n"; } ?> <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && is_sidebar_active('2nd-leader-aside') ) { // there are active widgets for this aside echo '<div id="second-leader" class="aside sub-aside">'. "\n" . '<ul class="xoxo">' . "\n"; dynamic_sidebar('2nd-leader-aside'); echo '' . "\n" . '</div>'. "\n"; } ?> <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && is_sidebar_active('3rd-leader-aside') ) { // there are active widgets for this aside echo '<div id="third-leader" class="aside sub-aside">'. "\n" . '<ul class="xoxo">' . "\n"; dynamic_sidebar('3rd-leader-aside'); echo '' . "\n" . '</div>'. "\n"; } ?> </div> </div> <?php } ?> <?php } add_action('thematic_belowheader','childtheme_leaderasides',6); // Add a widgetized aside above the main asides with the start of a wrapper: #sidebar function childtheme_sidebarstart() { ?> <div id="sidebar"> <div id="crown" class="aside crown-aside"> <ul class="xoxo"> <?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('crown-aside') ) : // begin sidebar crown widgets ?> <li id="thematic-power-blog-subscribe" class="widgetcontainer widget_thematic_power_blog_subscribe"> <h3 class="widget-title"><?php _e('Subscribe', 'thematic'); ?></h3> <ul> <li><a>" title="<?php echo wp_specialchars(get_bloginfo('name'), 1) ?> <?php _e('Site RSS feed', 'thematic'); ?>" rel="alternate nofollow" type="application/rss+xml"><?php _e('Site RSS Feed', 'thematic') ?></a></li> </ul> <?php endif; // end sidebar crown widgets ?> </div> <?php } add_action('thematic_abovemainasides','childtheme_sidebarstart'); // Close div#sidebar function childtheme_sidebarend() { ?> </div> <?php } add_action('thematic_belowmainasides','childtheme_sidebarend'); // Add breadcrumbs above the footer if Yoast Breadcrumbs are installed // <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/breadcrumbs/" rel="nofollow">http://yoast.com/wordpress/breadcrumbs/</a> function childtheme_breadcrumbs() { if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) { ?> <div id="breadcrumb-nav"> <div id="breadcrumb-nav-container"> <?php yoast_breadcrumb('',''); ?> </div> </div> <?php } } add_action('thematic_abovefooter','childtheme_breadcrumbs',5); // Add Thematic Power Blog Subscribe Widget function thematic_power_blog_subscribe() { ?> <li id="thematic-power-blog-subscribe" class="widgetcontainer widget_thematic_power_blog_subscribe"> <h3 class="widget-title"><?php _e('Subscribe', 'thematic'); ?></h3> <ul> <li><a>" title="<?php echo wp_specialchars(get_bloginfo('name'), 1) ?> <?php _e('Site RSS feed', 'thematic'); ?>" rel="alternate nofollow" type="application/rss+xml"><?php _e('Site RSS Feed', 'thematic') ?></a></li> </ul> <?php } // Register new widgetized areaa and the new widgets function childtheme_widgets_init() { // Register new widgetized areaa register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Crown Aside', 'id' => 'crown-aside', 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widgetcontainer %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "", 'before_title' => "<h3 class=\"widgettitle\">", 'after_title' => "</h3>\n", )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => '1st leader Aside', 'id' => '1st-leader-aside', 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widgetcontainer %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "", 'before_title' => "<h3 class=\"widgettitle\">", 'after_title' => "</h3>\n", )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => '2nd leader Aside', 'id' => '2nd-leader-aside', 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widgetcontainer %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "", 'before_title' => "<h3 class=\"widgettitle\">", 'after_title' => "</h3>\n", )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => '3rd leader Aside', 'id' => '3rd-leader-aside', 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widgetcontainer %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "", 'before_title' => "<h3 class=\"widgettitle\">", 'after_title' => "</h3>\n", )); // Register the new widgets register_sidebar_widget('Thematic Power Blog Subscribe', 'thematic_power_blog_subscribe'); } add_action( 'init', 'childtheme_widgets_init' ); ?> ' cristian on "thematic and a new widget next to the header?" http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/topic/thematic-and-a-new-widget-next-to-the-header#post-215 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:01:30 +0000 cristian 215@http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/ yes, that's what they meant :) Copy paste your functions.php file in here (also you are using a childtheme right? :) ) and I'll test is out my self. You can also put code in between backtick ( ` ) characters. kemilie on "thematic and a new widget next to the header?" http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/topic/thematic-and-a-new-widget-next-to-the-header#post-214 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:39 +0000 kemilie 214@http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/ thanks for the link! so a quick question... I added the code from that to my page (the 2 php chunks to the functions.php, and the css piece to my style.css)... but I don't see a new widget! i saw in the thread they mention something about " reload wp-admin / appearance / widgets " - do I need to do that? how on earth do you do that? I'm guessing they don't just mean hit the refresh button on the browser - I tried that!! thank you! :-) cristian on "thematic and a new widget next to the header?" http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/topic/thematic-and-a-new-widget-next-to-the-header#post-212 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:10:42 +0000 cristian 212@http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/ Hi, Chris from Themeshaper forums had written an excellent tutorial for exactly this issue: <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/something-new-bout-widgetized-areas#post-6660" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/something-new-bout-widgetized-areas#post-6660</a> I couldn't have written something better my self. kemilie on "thematic and a new widget next to the header?" http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/topic/thematic-and-a-new-widget-next-to-the-header#post-211 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:16:46 +0000 kemilie 211@http://www.cozmoslabs.com/forums/ Hello, whenever I do searches on all my many thematic questions I always seem to end up here at cozmoslabs - thank you for all the brilliant coding you do to help all of us who are too new with word press/css/etc... :-) i'm wondering if you know of a way to add a widget next to my header? my website is here: <a href="http://www.hawaiicoupondiva.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hawaiicoupondiva.com</a>. i made the header only 500 pixels wide, and then aligned it to the left. i'd like to put my "subscribe to our facebook/twitter/rss" buttons in a widget right NEXT to the header, so i can use that empty white space, but I have no idea how to do it. any help would be so appreciated! thanks for your thoughts!