Add a widgetized area under the header

Thanks for the response Eric. I went through that tutorial before I posted here, but where I ran into trouble was adding it to the pages, rather than  the home.php. I want to add the full width feature widget to only the pages, not the home page. How would I change the code to do this? That is where I get stuck with using the funtions.php file rather than the home.php file.

I got it close with this code.

add_action( ‘genesis_before_content’, ‘include_sidebar_widget’ );
/** Loads a new sidebar after the content */
function include_sidebar_widget() {

echo ”;
dynamic_sidebar( ‘featured’ );
echo ”;

}

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
‘id’ => ‘featured’,
‘name’ => ‘Featured’,
‘description’ => ‘This is where a featured section goes’,
) );

But I can’t get it to show up outside the wrap so it spans the entire width of the page.

Ok, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. The code you gave me worked, but not quite correctly, as the widget text was aligned off the left hand side of the page. So I have to change the output from the widget to rather than . That way, I could further style the .widget-wrap inside the featured div id. That centered it.

Here is the final code that worked for me, I added it after the “//After Header Wrap” section. Note that I had to add the contional “if is home” section so it didn’t show up on the homepage.


genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'featured',
'name' => __( 'Featured', 'epik' ),
'description' => __( 'This is the featured section.', 'epik' ),
) );

}


Then I added this CSS.


#featured {
background: #474747;
color: #FFFFFF;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px auto;
}

#featured .widget-wrap {
width: 1152px;
margin: 0px auto;
}