[TSP_CIC]

Dear Theme Horse,

Firstly I just wanted to say thanks for creating such a great theme.
I am completely new to creating websites so sorry if I am asking a stupid question.
I have already created a child theme and have been trying to replace the social icons list and search box in the header with a widget area.
In the child theme’s function.php I have inserted :

if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' 			=> 'Header',
		'id' 			=> 'header_widget',
		'description'   	=> 'Shows widgets in header.',
		'before_widget' 	=> '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget'  	=> '</aside>',
		'before_title'  	=> '<h3 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title'   	=> '</h3>'
	));
}

In the header-extentions.php (which I have put into library->structure of the child theme I have replaced:

<div class="hgroup-wrap clearfix">
	<?php 
	if( 0 == $options[ 'hide_header_searchform' ] || 1 == $flag ) {
			?>
	<section class="hgroup-right">
		<?php attitude_socialnetworks( $flag ); ?>
		<?php if( 0 == $options[ 'hide_header_searchform' ] ) get_search_form(); ?>
	</section><!-- .hgroup-right -->

With:

<div class="hgroup-wrap clearfix">
			<section class="hgroup-right">
				<?php if ( !function_exists('header_widget') || !header_widget('Header') ) : ?>
      				<?php endif; ?>
			</section><!-- .hgroup-right -->	

However I still have the social bar from the original theme. Are there other elements that need to be changes in the theme to activate child theme header file? I noticed that in the original functions.php there seems to be a directory list. Do I have to change something in there?
The website is http://www.thirdsectorpotential.co.uk

Best Wishes,

[Sanjip Shah]

@TSP_CIC Please go through this link https://www.themehorse.com/support-forum/topic/trying-to-add-a-phone-number-to-the-header-area/. I have discussed there on how to correctly edit the header part.

[TSP_CIC]

Hi found out the issue I had in the end.

Needed to put require_once( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/library/structure/header-extensions.php' ); into the child’s function.php file to activate the child theme’s header-extensions.php

Now the header widget is operational. Thanks for your support!

[Sanjip Shah]

@TSP_CIC Okay. Great. Thanks for sharing.

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