http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Thu, 23 May 2013 00:26:55 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/index-top-widget-for-category-page#post-26740 Tue, 01 May 2012 23:54:06 +0000 helgatheviking 26740@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>ugh, i don't really advise switching everything to pages. it is inefficient from a query standpoint. the blog template is going to one day be deprecated too. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/index-top-widget-for-category-page#post-26738 Tue, 01 May 2012 23:01:43 +0000 bhomatude 26738@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Helga -- yes the widget I added was not in the correct place. I actually just wanted that index top widget to also display on category pages. I ended up just changing all my category pages to pages that displayed categorized posts. That allowed me to continue using the index top widget.</p> <p>But I'm going to take a look at your suggestion here for the future.</p> <p>Thanks again for your help! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/index-top-widget-for-category-page#post-26727 Tue, 01 May 2012 13:56:27 +0000 helgatheviking 26727@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>what's wrong with the header widget you've created? is it in the wrong place or do you only want it to display on category pages?</p> <p>you could either adjust your conditional logic for displaying the dynamic_sidebar like so:</p> <pre><code>// adding the widget area to your child theme function my_header_widgets() { if ( function_exists(&#39;dynamic_sidebar&#39;) &#38;&#38; is_sidebar_active(&#39;header-aside&#39;) &#38;&#38; is_category()) { echo &#39;&lt;div id=&quot;header-aside&quot; class=&quot;aside&quot;&gt;&#39;. &quot;\n&quot; . &#39;&lt;ul class=&quot;xoxo&quot;&gt;&#39; . &quot;\n&quot;; dynamic_sidebar(&#39;header-aside&#39;); echo &#39;&#39; . &quot;\n&quot; . &#39;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- #header-aside .aside --&gt;&#39;. &quot;\n&quot;; } } add_action(&#39;thematic_belowheader&#39;, &#39;my_header_widgets&#39;, 8);</code></pre> <p>or you could put it on a hook that only displays on category pages, such as thematic_above_categoryloop() (which is also in a slightly different position)</p> <pre><code>// adding the widget area to your child theme function my_header_widgets() { if ( function_exists(&#39;dynamic_sidebar&#39;) &#38;&#38; is_sidebar_active(&#39;header-aside&#39;) ) { echo &#39;&lt;div id=&quot;header-aside&quot; class=&quot;aside&quot;&gt;&#39;. &quot;\n&quot; . &#39;&lt;ul class=&quot;xoxo&quot;&gt;&#39; . &quot;\n&quot;; dynamic_sidebar(&#39;header-aside&#39;); echo &#39;&#39; . &quot;\n&quot; . &#39;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- #header-aside .aside --&gt;&#39;. &quot;\n&quot;; } } add_action(&#39;thematic_above_categoryloop&#39;, &#39;my_header_widgets&#39;);</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/index-top-widget-for-category-page#post-26725 Tue, 01 May 2012 00:55:03 +0000 bhomatude 26725@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I'm currently using the index top widget area for the posts page, but I'd also like to use it for all my category pages. Perhaps I need to add another widget area specifically for this? If so, what would I hook into ? I'm successfully adding a widget below the header (see code below) but that's not really what I want to do.<br /> <pre><code>//add widget below header // This will create your widget area function my_widgets_init() { register_sidebar(array( &#39;name&#39; =&gt; &#39;Header Aside&#39;, &#39;id&#39; =&gt; &#39;header-aside&#39;, &#39;before_widget&#39; =&gt; &#39;&lt;li id=&quot;%1$s&quot; class=&quot;widgetcontainer %2$s&quot;&gt;&#39;, &#39;after_widget&#39; =&gt; &quot;&quot;, &#39;before_title&#39; =&gt; &quot;&lt;h3 class=\&quot;widgettitle\&quot;&gt;&quot;, &#39;after_title&#39; =&gt; &quot;&lt;/h3&gt;\n&quot;, )); } add_action( &#39;init&#39;, &#39;my_widgets_init&#39; ); // adding the widget area to your child theme function my_header_widgets() { if ( function_exists(&#39;dynamic_sidebar&#39;) &#38;&#38; is_sidebar_active(&#39;header-aside&#39;) ) { echo &#39;&lt;div id=&quot;header-aside&quot; class=&quot;aside&quot;&gt;&#39;. &quot;\n&quot; . &#39;&lt;ul class=&quot;xoxo&quot;&gt;&#39; . &quot;\n&quot;; dynamic_sidebar(&#39;header-aside&#39;); echo &#39;&#39; . &quot;\n&quot; . &#39;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- #header-aside .aside --&gt;&#39;. &quot;\n&quot;; } } add_action(&#39;thematic_belowheader&#39;, &#39;my_header_widgets&#39;, 8); //end add widget below header</code></pre>