How show up Banner Ads below Primary Menu on Genesis Child Themes

I am getting many requests from my friends and readers to show them how to place Google Adsense Ads and Affiliate Banners below the Primary menu.

Especially the Tech bloggers to whom Adsense is the best way to monetize,So they need this workaround to show up 728*90 Leaderboard Ads.

Since Genesis framework is fairly popular among the bloggers in this tutorial I am going to show how to register a Widget below the Primary menu on Genesis child themes so that you can use it to easily display the Leaderboard Ads and other affiliate banners.

Similarly you can also add widget for showing Ad banners,Adsense tags or even newsletter widgets below the post content in Genesis Child Themes

Ads below Navigation on Copyblogger Genesis Child Theme

Register a Custom Widget

Open the Your current themes functions.php.You can edit this from your dashboard by visiting Dashboard >> Appearance >> Editor >> functions.php 

or

you can use FTP clients like Filezilla to open the file which will be under  /wp-content/themes/child-theme-name

Add the following code at the end of the file

/** Register Topads widget area  */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
    'id'    => 'topads',
    'name'    => __( 'topads', 'custom-theme' ),
    'description'    => __( 'Here you can place 720*90 Ad', 'custom-theme' ),
) );
/** Add topads widget after the primary menu */
add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'custom_theme_topads' );
function custom_theme_topads() {
    genesis_widget_area( 'topads', array(
        'before' => '<div id="topads widget-area">',
    ) );
}

Now go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets and you can see new widget called “topads” registered.

New Widget registered

You can place anything like I mentioned above, the Leaderboard Ads,Affiliate Banners or even your Newsletter Widget.

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