Add Header Left Widget In Genesis

This tutorial provides the steps to add a header left widget area in Genesis. You can also enable Header right widget in Genesis.

STEP 1

Register a left-widget area for site header in functions.php

//* Register a `header-left` Widget area in functions.php
genesis_register_widget_area( array(
	'id'          => 'header-left',
	'name'        => __( 'Header Left Section', 'designody' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is a Header Left widget area.', 'designody' ),
) );

STEP 2

Display the left-widget in site header with priority in functions.php

//* Add the `header-left` widget using Genesis Hook and Display it for me.
add_action( 'genesis_header', 'dy_header_left_widget_content_5_9', 5 );
function dy_header_left_widget_content_5_9() {
  genesis_widget_area ('header-left', array(
        'before' => '<div id-"header-left" class="header-left in-header"><div class="wrap">',
        'after' => '</div></div>',
  ) );
}

Use some CSS to move it to left. To have More control Over widget position, Read Widget section in site header in Genesis.

Done.