How to: animation on Home page in widget area, and images on other pages widget

Hi Barry,

in the linked tutorial on edge docks you can see that you can choose the animation that should show up in the header per page (Placement method B). If you just want an image on same page, set the animation to “none” on the page and select a featured image. Then of course you should not delete the featured image PHP as is stated in the tutorial.

Basically you just need to make that only a featured image or an animation is active per page. Does that help or did I get it wrong?

Checked the tutorial again, I even leave the featured image in, so it should work as described in the tutorial. Depends of course on the theme that you are using. If it doesn’t work for your theme give twenty twelve a testrun and see if you got everything working there

Hey Timm,

A BIG thanks for your suggestions. Although I didn’t completely understand your last answer, you DID get me thinking about different ways to run your php code, and I figured it out.

For anyone who may now, or in the future find themselves trying to overcome the obstacle I had, here is how I developed things to create a workaround.

I was using the Dynamic Headers plugin that would display a Flash animation (swf file) on one page, and images on the other pages in the same place. Because I don’t want Flash animations for compatibility reasons, I’m no longer using the Dynamic Headers plugin which doesn’t support oam files.

In my case I have coded a widget area in the Atahualpa theme’s header area called header_images.

For that widget I downloaded and installed the “Enhanced Text” plugin. Now all that is necessary is to place the php code below:

<div align=”center”><?php
if(function_exists(‘edge_suite_view’)){
echo edge_suite_view();
}
?>
</div>

into the plugin in the Enhanced Text widget area (div’s are optional), upload your oam animation files, (which could be just a static image) using the Edge Suite plugin, select a different oam animation at the bottom of each page in edit view from the Edge Suite plugin, and you’re done! This method runs a different animation on each page.

Thanks again Timm!

Barry

Hi,
well, the PHP code you posted is actually supposed to go into your header PHP template as described in the tutorial. In general I think it’s not that great to put the PHP code in the enhanced text widget area as this is a total overhead and can be done directly. But if you prefer it that way an it works, well all right ??

Just wanted to state that this is not recommended!

Marking as solved