Adding a Widget area to the header

I had a perfect little hack that added a widget area to the top right of the header. This worked great when setting the logo to the left and the menu below.

I would add the following to the function.php file….

register_sidebar( array(
‘name’ => __( ‘Header Area’, ‘plus’ ),
‘id’ => ‘sidebar-2’,
‘description’ => __( ‘An optional widget area for your site header’, ‘your-theme’ ),
‘before_widget’ => ‘<div id=”%1$s” class=”headwidget %2$s”>’,
‘after_widget’ => “</div>”,
‘before_title’ => ‘<h3>’,
‘after_title’ => ‘</h3>’,
) );
}
add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘my_widgets_init’ );

I would then add into /includes/helper-main-menu.php

<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘sidebar-2’) ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I would also add some CSS to style and position the widget area.

Since the latest update this has stopped working and breaks the widgets page in wordpress.

Can you offer a fix or some advice on how I can get this working again.

Luke