Different header links on different pages?

  • webmakerholly

    (@webmakerholly)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m using a child theme of Twenty Eleven. I’ve created a few different template pages and I’m wondering if/how I can make my headers link to different pages? Specifically, on my homepage, I want the header image to link to the News page and on all other pages I want the header image to link to the home page. My header image for the homepage is created using the Featured Image function. The header for all other pages is in the default header.php file.

    Here’s a link to the site: http://springersgymclub.ca/dev/

    Thanks for your help!

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  • Flash Buddy

    (@flashbuddy)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I’m confused…

    For adding different content on a per page basis a couple things come to mind:

    1.) Create a widget area and assign widgets on a per page/post basis using widget logic plugin.

    2.) Add PHP code to the area I want to effect that is page specific. Example:

    <?php if ( is_page('home') ) { ?>
<p>Hey, this is your home page!</p>
<?php } else { ?>
<p>This is NOT your home page!</p>
<?php } ?>

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Yes – this should be possible via a custom header.php template file.

    // Check to see if the header image has been removed
$header_image = get_header_image();
if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) :
?>
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>">

    to:

    // Check to see if the header image has been removed
$header_image = get_header_image();
if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) :
$my_url = esc_url( home_url( '/' ) );
if( is_home() || is_front_page) ) :
$news = get_page_by_title( 'News' );
$my_url = get_page_link( $news->ID )
endif;?>
<a href="<?php echo $my_url; ?>">

    WARNING: Untested

    Thread Starter webmakerholly

    (@webmakerholly)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for all your suggestions. Esmi, I tried your code and it gave me an error on this line:

    if( is_home() || is_front_page) ) :

    I am a designer impersonating a developer, so I don’t know what to try to fix there. Any suggestions?

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Change this:

    is_front_page)

    …to this:

    is_front_page()
    Thread Starter webmakerholly

    (@webmakerholly)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hmmm, now I get this error message:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in /…/public_html/dev/wp-content/themes/springers/header.php on line 83

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Change this:

    $my_url = get_page_link( $news->ID )

    …to this:

    $my_url = get_page_link( $news->ID );

    If you have questions about general PHP syntax, I would recommend reading up at sites such as w3schools.com or PHP.net.

    Thread Starter webmakerholly

    (@webmakerholly)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Chip. I tried that but I still get that same syntax error. Anything other suggestions?

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Chip. I tried that but I still get that same syntax error. Anything other suggestions?

    Yes: try w3schools.com or PHP.net to help familiarize yourself with PHP syntax. Since we can’t see your actual code, have no idea what the line numbers refer to in the PHP errors you’re getting, it is next-to-impossible to troubleshoot.

    Thread Starter webmakerholly

    (@webmakerholly)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I agree that I need to be more familiar with PHP to work with WordPress. However, I need to figure out how to get it working by tomorrow. Thanks anyway. And thanks for the links.

    Flash Buddy

    (@flashbuddy)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Send me the your ftp login and password, and your wp-admin login and password and I’ll take a look by tomorrow.

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I think it is generally frowned upon to ask for – or to give out – hosting/FTP/WordPress credentials…

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    14 years, 2 months ago

    webmakerholly,

    The correct syntax for the line you’re having problems with is this:

    if( is_home() || is_front_page() ) :

    Double check that.

    Thread Starter webmakerholly

    (@webmakerholly)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Otto, that worked! Thanks! The only thing is now when you’re on the News page, the header links to the News page instead of back to the homepage. (All other pages link back to the homepage though, so that’s good.)

    I moved the site to: http://springersgymclub.ca

    Thanks for everyone’s help!

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