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[tandan]

Hi, I'm reposting this (slightly modified for clarity) because I marked the original thread "accepted" accidentally (newbie) and am still trying to find an answer to this question which I think will interest many people.

I'm trying to add a widget area to the right of my branding (above the social media) and can't figure out how to do this. I want to use a plugin for text sizing in that area.

If I try to add a universal sidebar it goes either below or above but not to the right...

Please help! I have seen so many sites with content to the right (such as a phone number, etc) of the logo on the "same level" visually--why can't it be done easily with Pagelines?? This should be implemented as it's a hot spot for ads, etc. and prime real estate.

Other notes:
I'm using the new 2.0 framework.

From another post tip I found on Paglines forum, I used the Custom Widget Area plugin

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. They give PHP code to insert (from the Custom Widget Area plugin in the repository).

The code is:

if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Header Widget Area')) :

endif;

Where do I put this? I tried adding the below code to my functions.php file and it didn't work...(you can go to my site

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and see how the code actually pops up in the actual layout...but that's better than breaking it completely which i did a few times)...

// add_action('hook_name','function name');
add_action('pagelines_before_branding_icons', 'new_widgetarea');

// function name
function new_widgetarea(){?>

if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Header Widget Area')) :

endif;


// end function

My site is

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Thanks in advance!
Best,
Tan