Displaying Custom Post Type content in the Header?

  • I’m trying to hack the header in a Twenty Eleven child theme to display dynamic headlines in the banner. I’ve got it partially working on a (staging server), so you can see what I mean.

    I’m using the Metabox script/plugin by Riwalis so that the user can create/modify the headline on a page-by-page basis. This is working great for most pages.

    But I also need a default headline as a fall-back for the index pages and other WP-generated pages. I thought the best way to do this would be to create a Custom Post Type to create/edit the default headline and then add a conditional statement in the header.php file to call it if there isn’t a custom headline for the page. But I can’t get the default headline to display.

    Here’s what I have in the header.php file. I’m new to PHP, so I expect that I haven’t constructed this correctly? I’d be grateful for any insights:

    <div id="headline">
   <?php
     $headline_custom = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'sb_banner_headline', true);
     $headline_default = get_post_type('sb_default_headline', true);
          if (is_page()) :
          echo $headline_custom; //Show the custom headline from Page METABOX
          else :
          echo $headline_default; //Show the default headline from CUSTOM POST TYPE
   ?>
   <?php endif; // end check for HEADLINE ?>
</div> <!-- #headline -->
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  • Thread Starter sticklechick

    (@sticklechick)

    I found a solution by eliminating the Custom Post Type and adding a Theme Options page with a textbox to add/edit the default banner content. Ian Stewart has an awesome, easy tutorial on creating Sample Theme Options. He explains how to make it work with a child theme. (Thanks, Ian!)

    Here is the what ended up going into the header.php file. Hope this helps someone else.

    <div id="headline">
     <?php
          if (is_page()) :
               $headline_custom = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'banner_headline', true);
               echo $headline_custom; //Show the custom headline from METABOX
          else :
               $options = get_option('sanskrit_theme_options');
               echo $options['headline-default']; //Show the default headline from THEME OPTIONS PAGE
     ?>
     <?php endif; // end check for metabox ?>
</div> <!-- #headline -->
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