How to add a button to my specific header?

do_shortcode didn’t work? That normally takes care of it.

I am not all clued up with shortcode etc. so it can be that I’m not placing it at the right spot? I don’t really know for sure where to insert it and if, how i wrote the shortcode, is correct?

In your header.php file you’ll need to add
<?php echo do_shortcode('[maxbutton id="1"]'); ?>
And that should place your button in your header. You’ll need to reposition it with CSS, but that should get your MaxButton showing up.

I have just tried doing this and my whole theme has gone blank!!!!!!

Best practice is to add it to a child theme and work with the theme that way. Second to that you should edit your main theme files off-line.

As for the blank, hopefully you can remove whatever code you added. Most likely you are missing a semi colon or placed that full PHP snippet into an already created block of PHP.

Hello everyone, just to clear things out I’m really new to all of this but I’m not saving any effort, so please be patient

The website that I achieved within three months HARD work is https://www.chihuahuabelgium.com
Including discovering what WAMPP is.. and putting my site locally then uploading it to the server, editing the php
(sorry it might look like not a big deal but for me it was an Everest mountain ??
Johnbhartley
thanks to your tip: <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[maxbutton id=”1″]’); ?>

I managed to add a shortcode button to my header php as:
<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[button link=”#” target=”blank”]Eng[/button]’); ?>

and it worked perfectly, now… you mentioned that i can reposition the button from the CSS
can you give some more explanation, i’ve red some articles about relative, absolute and fixed Positioning in CSS but how i’ll be specifying the button
how to tell the CSS that i’m talking about that specific button..
An example will be highly appreciated

Many thanks in advance

The [button] shortcode is not MaxButtons specific so I’m not sure the classes that it outputs. For MaxButtons the [maxbutton id=”3″] shortcode would allow you to move the button with either

.maxbutton-3-container {
   position: absolute;
   top: 25px;
   right: 15px;
} 

/* or if container is not being used */
.maxbutton-3 {
   position: absolute;
   top: 25px;
   right: 15px;
}

As I said though I’m not sure what plugin does the [button] shortcode, so I can’t be sure.

thanks for the quick respond

the short code that i’ve used came readymade with the theme that i bought (Especial) -the name of the theme-
originally the button code is: [button link=”#” target=”blank”]Some button text[/button]

hope this help..
cause my ignorance will ask:
– how can I know my button code ID is..

If you are using the MaxButtons shortcode it is displayed in your button list. If you are just using the default button shortcode that came with the theme you’ll need to ask the theme developer as it’s not a piece of this plugin.

Hi John! I was able to get the button to show on my header following your directions of <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[maxbutton id=”1″]’); ?> in the header.php but I am not able to position it where I want it (Just below the text on the header that reads “Jacobson Sinai Academy”. I copied the script you provided for positioning but it did not modify the button’s placement.
Could you provide me the complete script of how would that be done?
my page is https://www.jsamiami.org
Thanks!