Place Widgets above Menu

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• Started 1 year ago by iAndy
• Latest reply from Ismael
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   iAndy
   Member

   Hi, i would like to place some widgets above the menu in the sidebar. How could i do that?

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   Ismael
   Moderator

   Hello,

   Technically, there is no easy way to do this without thoroughly hard coding the theme.
   To edit the sidebar menus you need to edit sidebar.php and place the custom sidebar somewhere on the file. You need some PHP knowledge to know exactly where to put this.

   Now, I edited sidebar.php and I will put the code here, somewhat in my end this works perfectly fine BUT I don't have a fully proof knowledge to know if this will not cause any failure on different pages. Please backup your files before doing this.

   Copy this on your sidebar.php.

   <?php
   global $avia_config, $custom_widget_area;
   
   wp_reset_query();
   ob_start();
   
   if(!empty($avia_config['currently_viewing_dynamic_overwrite'])) {$avia_config['currently_viewing'] = $avia_config['currently_viewing_dynamic_overwrite'];}
   
   			##############################################################################
   			# Display the sidebar menu
   			##############################################################################
   
   			$default_sidebar = false;
   			echo "<div id='secondary'>";
   
   				echo "<div class='sidebar'>";
   				// general pages sidebars
   				if ($avia_config['currently_viewing'] == 'page' && dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar Pages') ) : $default_sidebar = false; endif;
   
   				$custom_widget_area = avia_check_custom_widget('page');
   
   				//unique Page sidebars:
   				if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Page: '.$custom_widget_area) ) : $default_sidebar = false; endif;
   
   				$custom_widget_area = avia_check_custom_widget('cat');
   
   				//unique Category sidebars:
   				if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Category: '.$custom_widget_area) ) : $default_sidebar = false; endif;
   					echo "<div class='inner_sidebar extralight-border'>";
   					/*
   					*	display the main navigation menu
   					*   check if a description for submenu items was added and change the menu class accordingly
   					*   modify the output in your wordpress admin backend at appearance->menus
   					*/
   					echo "<div class='main_menu main_menu' data-selectname='".__('Select a page','avia_framework')."'>";
   					$args = array('theme_location'=>'avia', 'fallback_cb' => 'avia_fallback_menu', 'walker' => new avia_description_walker());
   					wp_nav_menu($args);
   					echo "</div>";
   
   				if(is_front_page()) $avia_config['currently_viewing'] = 'frontpage';
   
   				// general blog sidebars
   				if ($avia_config['currently_viewing'] == 'frontpage' && dynamic_sidebar('Frontpage') ) : $default_sidebar = false; endif;
   
   				// single shop sidebars
   				if ($avia_config['currently_viewing'] == 'portfolio' && dynamic_sidebar('Portfolio') ) : $default_sidebar = false; endif;
   
   				// general blog sidebars
   				if ($avia_config['currently_viewing'] == 'blog' && dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar Blog') ) : $default_sidebar = false; endif;
   
   				//sidebar area displayed everywhere
   				if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && $avia_config['currently_viewing'] != 'shop_single' && dynamic_sidebar('Displayed Everywhere')) : $default_sidebar = false; endif;
   
   				//default dummy sidebar
   				if ($default_sidebar)
   				{
   
   					 avia_dummy_widget(2);
   					 avia_dummy_widget(3);
   					 avia_dummy_widget(4);
   
   				}
   				echo "</div>";
   
   			echo "</div>";
   
   		echo "</div>";
   
   $output = ob_get_clean();
   
   echo $output;
   
   wp_reset_query();
   
   ?>

   Then in Appearance > Widget place some widgets on Sidebar Blog / Sidebar Pages or Frontpage.

   Hope it works fine.

   Regards,
   Ismael

   Posted 1 year ago #

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