Add a Full Width Row Above Footer Widgets in Genesis Child Theme

How to add a full width content row in the area directly above the footer widgets in a Genesis Child theme.

In the layout above, the three footer widgets are used for 3 products, but a headline needs to straddle across all 3 widgets and needs to be easily changed. To achieve this a new widget area has to be created and positioned above the footer widget area using the hook genesis_before_footer .

Create the New Widget

The code below needs to be added to your functions.php file in your theme folder.

//Extra Widget Area
function genesischild_footerwidgetheader() {
	genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id' => 'footerwidgetheader',
	'name' => __( 'Footer Widget Header', 'genesis' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is for the Footer Widget Headline', 'genesis' ),
	) );

}

add_action ('widgets_init','genesischild_footerwidgetheader');

This will add the widget in the backend

Hook in the Widget

//Position Widget Header
function genesischild_footerwidgetheader_position ()  {
	echo '<div class="footerwidgetheader-container"><div class="wrap">';
	genesis_widget_area ('footerwidgetheader');
	echo '</div></div>';

}

add_action ('genesis_before_footer','genesischild_footerwidgetheader_position');

This will hook the new widget in before the footer widgets.

If the header appears below the widgets, adjust the add_action with a higher priority.

add_action ('genesis_before_footer','genesischild_footerwidgetheader_position', 5 );

CSS Styling

Use the .footerwidgetheader-container class to style the full row and you can target the inner wrap with .footerwidgetheader-container .wrap

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