Add a widget to left main menu area

hm the place you are looking for has no enfold prepared hook – but we can do it ourself.

if you are working with a child theme please goto your child-theme folder and create a subfolder named: includes
On enfold / includes there is a file : helper-main-menu.php

upload a copy of this to your child-theme includes folder.
We must now insert some code to that copied helper-main-menu.php
On line 199 you see:

`/* end container */
$output .= ” </div> “;`

after that insert :

/*
* Hook that can be used for plugins and theme extensions
*/
ob_start();
do_action('ava_after_inner_container');
$output .= ob_get_clean();

so you have than :

/* end container */
$output .= " </div> ";

/*
* Hook that can be used for plugins and theme extensions
*/
ob_start();
do_action('ava_after_inner_container');
$output .= ob_get_clean();
	
//output the whole menu     
echo $output; 

so now we have a piece where we can hook the widget to. in your functions.php of your child-theme add:

add_action( 'ava_after_inner_container', 'enfold_customization_header_widget_area' );
function enfold_customization_header_widget_area() {
    dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-header-widget' );
}

Important: If you have allready used that functions name (enfold_customization_header_widget_area) replace it by another function-name.

Goto your widgets and create a customized widget area called “sidebar-header-widget”

Goto your Quick css and add:

.html_header_sidebar ul.social_bookmarks {
    border-bottom: 2px solid #efefef;
}
.html_header_sidebar #header_main .widget {
    margin: 0 13%;
}

PS

Look what happens to this widget area on responsive case! it is than directly under the header.
You will manage that by yourself – i would decide to not show that container and do it to display none ?

You can see the test page here: https://webers-testseite.de/kokon/elements/buttons/

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Guenni007.

is it too complicated?
There is a position under Menu – above social media links. But register a new “header” widget is here necessary too.

the ava_after_main_menu is there – but it is the position as described after main menu above social media