I am using a child theme of Clean Box and would like to replace the search icon at the right of the navigation bar with a widget area.<\/p>\n
So far, I’ve registered the widget area, but am not sure how to get it to appear in the nav bar, instead of the search icon.<\/p>\n
As a start (just to see if I could add something to the menu successfully), I tried simply adding text to the menu items with:<\/p>\n
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'add_widget_area_to_menu', 10, 2 );\nfunction add_widget_area_to_menu ( $items, $args ) {\n if (is_single() && $args->theme_location == 'primary') {\n $items .= '<li>New widget<\/li>';\n }\n return $items;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\nBut that didn’t have any effect on the nav bar.<\/p>\n
I also see that to make a widget area appear, I should use the dynamic_sidebar function – I’m just not sure where to use it.<\/p>\n
I’m familiar with php but new to WordPress development, and would be extremely grateful for any advice, as it will help me learn. I’m working on the site locally, so unfortunately I can’t paste a URL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7341831","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-nav-bar","topic-tag-widget"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7341831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7341831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}