Using a different header on the homepage

  • Resolved helencoupland

    (@helencoupland)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    I’m trying to use a larger image on the homepage and a smaller version on all other pages.
    I’ve created a version of the header.php file called header-home.php which refers to the image I want, but I can’t work out how to apply the header-home.php to the homepage instead of the regular header.php. Presumably with some conditional tags but I don’t know where to put these;

    Is it in the index template which just looks like this

    ‘ <?php get_header(); ?>

    <!– Begin Blog –>
    <?php include (THEMELIB . ‘/apps/blog.php’); ?>

    <!– Begin Footer –>
    <?php get_footer(); ?>’

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I’d edit my header.php file to have an if/then in it:

    <?php if(is_home() ) {

//do special header stuff

} else {

//do regular header stuff

} ?>
    Thread Starter helencoupland

    (@helencoupland)

    Thanks for the help… My header.php file looks like this though (I started from a complicated theme and disabled a lot of stuff).

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head profile="https://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

    <title><?php wp_title( '-', true, 'right' ); echo wp_specialchars( get_bloginfo('name'), 1 ); ?></title>

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type') ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset') ?>" />
	<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description') ?>" />
	<?php if(is_search()) { ?>
	<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
    <?php }?>

<!-- Styles  -->
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/library/styles/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/library/styles/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />
	<!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/library/styles/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" /><![endif]-->
	<!--[if lte IE 7]><link type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/library/styles/ie-nav.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" /><![endif]-->
	<?php //Load Variables
  $css = get_option('T_background_css');
	?>
	<?php if ($css == 'Enabled') {?>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/library/functions/style.php" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
	<?php } ?>

	<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php if(function_exists('show_media_header')){ show_media_header(); } ?>

<body>
<div id="top">

<!-- Begin Masthead -->

<div id="masthead">
 <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/eastern_soul_header.gif" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a></h1>
</div>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/nav.php'); ?>

<div class="clear"></div>
</div>

<div class="container">
<div class="container-inner">
    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    What is it you want to change? If it’s just the masthead, then 

    <?php if(is_home() ) {

//do special header stuff

} else {

//do regular header stuff
<!-- Begin Masthead -->

<div id="masthead">
 <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/eastern_soul_header.gif" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a></h1>
</div>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/nav.php'); ?>

} ?>

    See how that works? ??

    Thread Starter helencoupland

    (@helencoupland)

    Sorry no.. I used the code below, but I keep getting this error:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/heloucou/public_html/niraj/wp-content/themes/modularity-lite/header.php on line 39

    <?php if(is_home() ) {

//do special header stuff

<div id="masthead">
 <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/eastern_soul_header_home.gif" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a></h1>
</div>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/nav.php'); ?>

} else {

//do regular header stuff

<div id="masthead">
 <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/eastern_soul_header.gif" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a></h1>
</div>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/nav.php'); ?>

} ?>
    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You have a PHP include in your PHP code. Try this:

    <?php if(is_home() ) {

//do special header stuff
?>

<div id="masthead">
 <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/eastern_soul_header_home.gif" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a></h1>
</div>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/nav.php'); ?>

<?php
} else {

//do regular header stuff
?>

<div id="masthead">
 <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/eastern_soul_header.gif" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a></h1>
</div>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/nav.php'); ?>

<?php
} ?>
    Thread Starter helencoupland

    (@helencoupland)

    That works fine… Thank you!

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