How to remove default slider and introduce another slider to homepage

See what Konrad was recently recommending, it could be relevant to your question, just put a shortcode in a text widget and drop this widget into the header full width area.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-add-a-swf-as-header

By the way, in my harsh environment the native CC slider didn’t work by itself after upgrading.

I selected Theme Options – Slideshow – Enable Slideshow
(there was already ‘all’ by default) and clicked ‘Save Option’.

It works ever since. 🙂

Hi Thoughtlife,

ah sorry i was reading to fast.. 😉

if you use a child theme and you can call the slider via php i would simply add an action hook to your functions.php..

i would firstly remove the slideshow via theme settings -> slideshow

then the action hook in your functions.php should look something like this:

add_action( 'bp_after_header', 'your_slider_function_name', 2 );

replace “your_slider_function_name” with the php call to your created slider 😉

you should find more help how to achieve this last part on the homepage of the slider plugin..

hope this helps,
konrad

Hi Thoughtlife…

weird, does the shortcode work inside a page or post?

it should work like this and display something..

but, firstly it would be on every site except you tell your header.php to display it only when your homepage is active.. ** maybe you want the slider on all pages **

then, the most important thing:

if you change theme files directly, you would loose ALL YOUR CHANGES with EVERY theme update, as all theme files get replaced when updating the theme.

so you would have to track all changes and update would be a big mess everytime..

this is why you should really consider to create a child theme (just google it or lookup in the wordpress docs, very easy).

then you are update safe and free to change and modify all stuff without loosing your changes!

in the ne child theme, you would only need your style.css to declare our child theme and an empty functions.php with just your slider function / hook inside.

your complete functions.php should look like this then: :

<?php 

add_action( 'bp_after_header', 'your_slider_function', 2 ); 

// thats your fucntion
your_slider_function() {
?><div><?php
echo do_shortcode('[SmartSlider 4]');
?></div><?php
}

?>

tryout, hope this helps, konrad