Floating widget area as shortcode

[odyn]

I love the way I can add a floating widget area in a layout builder. But would it also be possible to add it into a page with a shortcode (or something) on its designated area?

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[Jason Bobich]

I think you could pretty easily show a widget area in a shortcode, but it honestly really wouldn’t even have much to do with the theme. I suppose you’d be creating the widget area under Appearance > Widget Areas, but outside of that all the functionality would just be basic WordPress stuff. Something like this, maybe:

[widget_area id="your-sidebar-id"]

function my_widget_area_shortcode( $atts ) {
     ob_start();
     dynamic_sidebar( $atts['id'] );
     return ob_get_clean();
}
add_shortcode('widget_area', 'my_widget_area_shortcode');

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar

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