To define a new widget, add the following code to your functions.php file in your child theme:
* ``` // Add a widget. if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) { register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Extra Widget Before Header', 'id' => 'extra-widget', 'description' => 'Extra Widget Before Header', 'before_widget' => '', 'before_title' => 'You then need to hook your widget to the beginning of the header. Add the following code below the code above:
* ``` // Place the widget before the header add_filter ('__before_header', 'add_my_widget'); function add_my_widget() { if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')) { dynamic_sidebar('Extra Widget Before Header'); } } ``` *That’s it! When you go to Appearance > Widgets, you’ll find your widget there, ready to be filled with whatever you want.
* You will then need to style it, of course. * Thread Starter [jbush82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbush82/) * (@jbush82) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471173) * Perfect, exactly what I was looking for. * Thanks! * Thread Starter [jbush82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbush82/) * (@jbush82) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471228) * Just wanted to give a quick update on this… after some further thinking, I decided to change the location of the widget (at least for my purposes). Instead of placing it before the entire header, I placed it after the navbar. I did this by changing“ __before_header” to “__after_navbar”… I also played around with “before_navbar”( strange that this wouldn’t have the preceding __). * The second part of the code looks like this for placing it after the navbar but within the header: * ``` // Place the widget before the header add_filter ('__after_navbar', 'add_my_widget'); function add_my_widget() { if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')) { dynamic_sidebar('Extra Widget Before Header'); } } ``` * The second part of the code looks like this for placing it before the navbar but within the header: * ``` // Place the widget before the header add_filter ('before_navbar', 'add_my_widget'); function add_my_widget() { if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')) { dynamic_sidebar('Extra Widget Before Header'); } } ``` * [B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logicintl/) * (@logicintl) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471399) * [@electric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/electric/) Feet … or if you know where to point me, please do. 🙂 * How does one go about “‘styling’ it, of course” … what is the next step? * I want to be able to do what was done at this website … [http://rvbusiness.com](http://rvbusiness.com)… where they put scrolling ad banners above the header, is that what this will allow me to do? * Also, if you need to see what those lines of code above are doing, see it at … [http://the-rv-life.com](http://the-rv-life.com) … it is, as you all say, ‘un- styled’. * When complete will this give me a ‘widget’ drag & drop in the usual widget area? * Also, my Customizr Child Theme did not have a functions.php file, so I made the file and put the code in this functions.php file. * Thanks much, B * [Rocco Aliberti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4z_c0nf/) * (@d4z_c0nf) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471400) * B, you have an error in your functions.php. Probably you closed the php tag (`? >`) before ‘// Add a widget’ * [B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logicintl/) * (@logicintl) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471401) * DZ … you’ve got an amazing eye … I will repeat with care … thanks so much. B * [B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logicintl/) * (@logicintl) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471402) * DZ … I repeated the process … I did a strict copy/paste of the code placed above in the string, er support thread. * Now look see and advise. * B * [Rocco Aliberti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4z_c0nf/) * (@d4z_c0nf) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471403) * now seems you have closed it before: ‘// Place the widget before the header’ can you paste your functions.php code in pastebin: [http://pastebin.com/](http://pastebin.com/) and then give me the link? * [B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logicintl/) * (@logicintl) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471404) * DZ, * Ok, here you go … * Pastebin: [http://pastebin.com/FQWF26J4](http://pastebin.com/FQWF26J4) Website: [http://the-rv-life.com/](http://the-rv-life.com/) * Thanks 🙂 B * [Rocco Aliberti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4z_c0nf/) * (@d4z_c0nf) * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-adding-a-header-widget-area/#post-4471405) * This is all your child-theme functions.php? * So I was wrong, you didn’t close the php closing tag before the actual end, you never opened it But why you have the code 2 times, and what happend to the widget area declaration ????? Should be: * ``` 'Extra Widget Before Header', 'id' => 'extra-widget', 'description' => 'Extra Widget Before Header', 'before_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '