Several clients wanted some content in the right side of the header in the WOO Canvas theme. There’s the Advertising feature of the theme, but on testing we found that ad blockers, well, rightly so, blocked any content in that area. I looked into the WOO Support for some help and it went beyond the scope of the forums. I agree. So it was back to the PHP and CSS drawing board. I found lots of help for this at Shailan’s How to widgetize your theme in 3 simple steps!
We’d need to create a widget (function), get it into the header, style it and place it in the right spot, and test it with a few different widgets. I had hoped to use WOO Hooks to place the function into the header, but WOO Hooks don’t allow PHP. Wha? Really? Maybe I’m not geeky enough to know why not, but I could use it. Then I wouldn’t have to get into the functions.php file or at least not into the header.php file. Oh well, I’ll work with what I have.
I’m going to put the How To write up over on WordPress U. Hope it helps. Adding a widget into WOO Canvas (header right).
