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  • January 17, 2014 at 6:14 pm #211310
    GCEAweb

    Is there an easy enough way to pull the Widget Nav Menu from the sidebar and place it in a Custom Widget Area so it can be used in a full width layout or color section?

    Looking around in the PHP code a little bit to see if I can pull it form somewhere, but thoughts I’d ask here as well.

    Thanks for any help.

    -Nate

    January 17, 2014 at 6:53 pm #211335
    GCEAweb

    Do I simply just echo $av_sidebar_menu in a custom widget? I identify the menu (I think) in the sidebar.php and that’s where I start to get a little lost.

    Thanks.

    January 18, 2014 at 12:02 am #211434
    GCEAweb

    So I ended up with a rough solution I think. Let me know what you think.

    I installed the PHP widget plugin. http://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-widget/
    Created a Custom Widget Area
    Pasted in the sidebar code: 

    <?php 
	echo "<div class='EAsidebar sidebar sidebar_".$sidebar." ".$sidebar_smartphone.">";
	 	echo "<div class='inner_sidebar extralight-border'>";
	        $av_sidebar_menu = avia_sidebar_menu(false);
	        if($av_sidebar_menu)
	        {
	            echo $av_sidebar_menu;
	            $default_sidebar = false;
	        }
    	echo "</div>";
  	echo "</div>";
?>

    Then placed the Custom Widget Area in the avia layout

    Here is the result with a little tweaking of CSS. http://rev.greatercea.org/?page_id=2386

    Kinda rough like I said but think it got the job done. Let me know your thoughts and if you see a cleaner approach. Always like to hear about best practices.

    Thanks.

    January 18, 2014 at 12:10 am #211435
    Josue

    Hi!

    Another approach would be using a Shortcode. If your current solution works for you, stick with it, the only drawback is see is the plugin dependency but i don’t think that’s a big deal.

    Regards,
    Josue

    January 18, 2014 at 12:21 am #211439
    GCEAweb

    I like the idea of not relying on the plugin. I will check that out this weekend. Thanks.

    January 18, 2014 at 12:21 am #211440
    Josue

    We looking forward to hearing from you :)

    Regards,
    
Josue

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