How to Add the After Post Widget to your Genesis Child Theme

Do you want to add the after post widget to your Genesis Child Theme with just simple and easy code snippets? Then you came at the right place.

Here we have posted the easy and fastest guide to adding the widget after post on your page and post. We have posted this guide with code snippets that will help you to add the widget your WordPress Genesis Theme.

After updating of Genesis 2.0 lots of things are changed and improved, but StudioPress team deleted the After Post widget. The after post widget was really amazing and was really useful such as for Add Adsense ads, add subscriber form, add an important notice, sharing button, related posts, etc.

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Let’s dive and learn this guide.

How to Add After Post Widget Area in Genesis

Here is a custom code to get back After Post Widget functionality in Genesis 2.0.

Register After Post Widget

First, we have to register the After Post Widget with by just copy and pasting the below code into your child theme’s functions.php file.

Register Widget Code

/** Add the after post section */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'		=> 'afterpost',
	'name'		=> __( 'After Post  Widget', 'child theme' ),
	'description'	=> __( 'This is the after post section.', 'child theme' ),
) );

Add Genesis Hook

Lastly, Add the following Genesis Hook code into your functions.php file to show/place the widget after Post Section.

Hook to Show Widget

/** Add Hook to show widgets after Post Section. */
add_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'custom_add_after_post_box', 15 );
function custom_add_after_post_box() {
	if ( is_singular( 'post' ) )
	genesis_widget_area( 'afterpost', array(
		'before' => '<div id="afterpost">',
	) );
}

Now you should have a new widget area right before your comments and after your post content that you can use to advertise, email subscribe form, build traffic or just impress your readers.

Hope this article was helpful for you. If you guys have any question related to Genesis Widget or something about WordPress Theme let us know in comment section.