GeoDirectory text- /widget area below Detail Page

Hi Guust and Alex

Thanks for the hints, I will look into the details.

I made a better Pic of what I wanted to achieve that should explain it better than the previous picture.

I think it could be very useful to use this area for many purposes, like placing banners, ads and other general infos.

Like in this particular case, I would be able to add some booking or travel info’s

Hi Guust and Alex

I had time to look a bit more in detail into your hints and tried out the following but without the desired result:

In the child theme I registered a new sidebar:

register_sidebar( array(
        'name'          => 'GD Detail Below Content',
        'id'            => 'gd-detail-below-content',
        'description'   => '',
        'before_widget' => '',
        'after_widget'  => '',
        'before_title'  => '<h2>',
        'after_title'   => '</h2>',
    ) );

It also shows nicely in the admin widget area, so it seems to work.

then I added the following to the listing-detail.php:

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'gd-detail-below-content' ) ) : 
    dynamic_sidebar( 'gd-detail-below-content' );
endif;

after:

// this call the main page content
global $preview;
if (have_posts() && !$preview) {
    the_post();
    global $post, $post_images;
    /**
     * Calls the details page main content on the details template page.
     *
     * @since 1.1.0
     * @param object $post The current post object.
     */
    do_action('geodir_details_main_content', $post);

But nothing showed up on the page and I wonder where i went wrong.

Did I modify the wrong php file or should I have called that sidebar in a different way?

I’m definitely not such a php guru like you guys 🙂

Any hints are very appreciated

Hi Alex

thanks for the helpful reply. specially # 2

As it looks like other people would like to have this option too, maybe it might be an idea for a feature in a future release.

It would be just great to choose this in the Design options, drag the widgets into the new area and bam there it is 🙂

Happy Christmas and a great new year to you and the team