Add widget or shortcode to site header

[Tricia Francis]

Tricia Francis

August 13, 2020 at 9:30 am

Hey There!

I’m working on a site that will have data-driven ozone alerts and a weather widget in the top bar of all pages. My first thought was to create widgets – or probably shortcodes – to do this. But when I look at the customizer for header sections, I don’t see an option to add either to the top bar. I tried dropping {year} into an HTML block as a test, but no luck.

What is the best way for me to add custom coded objects to the site header? Can I add a function to allow shortcodes in the header? Or maybe hook in? Worst case scenario, I suppose I could add the header template into my child theme and customize, but I’d like to avoid this if possible.

Thanks!