Swap out the primary sidebar for page specific widgetarea

Hi Chris,

There are multiple approach depending on your needs. If it is just to have a different widget area on the home page, I would suggest to register another sidebar and display it instead of the default primary sidebar on the front page as follow:

add_action( 'widgets_init', 'example_widgets_init', 2 );
/**
 * Register example widget area.
 */
function example_widgets_init() {
 beans_register_widget_area( array(
    'name' => __( 'Sidebar Primary Alt', 'smartcom' ),
    'id'   => 'example_primary_alt',
  ) );
}

beans_modify_action_callback( 'beans_widget_area_sidebar_primary', 'example_widget_area_sidebar_primary' );
/**
 * Echo primary widget area alt on front page and default primary widget area elsewhere.
 */
function example_widget_area_sidebar_primary() {

  // Load the primary alt sidebar on the front page.
  if ( true === is_front_page() ) {
   echo beans_widget_area( 'example_primary_alt' ); // WPCS: XSS ok.

   return;
 }

 beans_widget_area_sidebar_primary();

}

If you needed that to be "controllable" in the backend layout options, then you would need hook into beans layout options to register an new layout option and a listener for it in your callback function.

Have fun,

Thanks dude, that's exactly what I was after 😀