[Plugin: Site Background Slider] Not working on Custom Template Home Page

“this is the only way it will work for all users. “

Would you like some assistance in using WordPress’s conditional statements to properly associate the home page?

hi
The plugin is still Version 1.0.8?

I have Show only on Home Page ticked.
i have Homepage Url: https://www.mysite.co.uk/site/ (site is the demo folder)

I have tried changing the Permalinks to something more basic
I have tried Homepage Url: https://www.mysite.co.uk/site/index.php
and Homepage Url: https://www.mysite.co.uk/site/home
(home being the name of the homepage)

But it does not show. I cannot as yet test it on https://www.mysite.co.uk/
I am hoping that will solve everything.

I have tried many methods but if you believe you have a “one size fits all” solution then yes, please do tell ??

@tomwgf did you type in the homepage URL in the backend and also tick the show only homepage option? And yes the plugin latest is 1.0.8

If it is not showing at all then try un-tick show only homepage option and check if jQuery is loading, send me your URL and I will check when it is active…

Generally the people who have issues with is_home() not working is that they are not getting the current global $wp_query before checking any conditionals.

@frumph We tried that – that will not work if using a custom theme with a static home page. is_home() is unreliable – it does not even have to be defined in lots of themes and therefore will fail – in that case you have to use is_front_page() which also sometimes does not work.

We had both options at one point with to many support requests saying it does not work – so now users can just type in there home page URL – and if that is matched on page load – the background slides are run. Easy Peasy no more Lemon Squeezy.

hi
heres the url: https://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk/site/
currently Show only on Home Page is unticked
Homepage URL https://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk/site/

thanks
tom

Cool, the code is running – try disabling your main slider (not sure if that is a plugin – nivoSlider I think) and also remove the dash “-” in your filenames, plus add 1 more image – let me know how it goes.

hi
i have added a third BG pic
i deactivated EasyNivo slider
Show only on Home Page is now ticked
i tried
Homepage URL https://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk/site/
Homepage URL https://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk/site/home
(as that is the title of the homepage)
Homepage URL https://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk/site/home/

the homepage does not have ‘-‘ in the slug, it is just home

but get nothing now.

I have just tried Setting>Reading and deselected Home as the home page – and set it to Select – still nothing

Here, pixel. I rewrote it for you.

https://pastebin.com/KvQ3HCaj

^ remove the stray var_dump() I left in there for testing ;/ and your unnecessary option and admin stuff for people to input their url

The issue is that is_home() does not work in ‘init’ or ‘plugin_init’ it works though after wp_head, so to use it you need to use it in the action that is going in wp_head.

@tomwgf Like I mentioned before, your url: https://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk/site/ will not work as it is a sub folder of your domain https://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk. You need to make your homepage url https://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk or https://site.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk for it to work

OK, sadly i can’t do that at the moment – i’ll just have to see how it goes – thanks
tom

@skashi please do not tell people to change their installations just to make something work. It is the plugin author’s responsibility to make things work for all possible installations.

@frumph As I’ve mentioned before, PHP’s $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] variable does not pick up a sub-directory as your homepage. Therefore if https://www.site.com/subpage is your homepage then the $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] variable is going to return /subpage and not the root /. There is nothing one can do about this. This is a limitation on PHP’s side so if you would like to rewrite PHP then be my guest. In any case this is a server issue and has nothing to do with the plugin being coded incorrectly.

Either way, whatever you continue to use. It would be a good idea to never tell someone to change their installation.

again, I link:
https://pastebin.com/KvQ3HCaj

Which does not need to use REQUEST_URI