Can’t get it to work. Partly. tried everything. Help?

  • Hi there! First of all; great plugin!

    Got a question though. I got it working on one site (https://www.eamel.net/blog/), very satisfied with it!, but not on 3 other sites with another kind of theme (The Night Watch theme). One of them is https://photo.eamel.net/.

    The Night Wacth theme is set up as a one column blog and whatever I try, I can’t find out how to get the videoheading replacing the image heading. I even tried all the suggestions made in this support section here.

    I’ve tried, of course, the functions.php code by adding this to it at the bottom:

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    function nightwatch_header_vidbg() {
    echo do_shortcode( ‘[vidbg container=”masthead” mp4=”https://*****.mp4″ webm=”https://*****.webm” poster=”https://https://*****.jpg” loop=”true” overlay=”false” overlay_color=”#000″ overlay_alpha=”0.3″ muted=”false”]’ );
    }
    add_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘nightwatch_header_vidbg’ );
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    That didn’t work. I’ve changed the containername, using a different header id’s: masthead, #masthead, site-header,.site-header and even ‘header’. None of it helped.

    Then I tried to change the header.php code adding this:
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    <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[vidbg container=”.site-heading” mp4=”https://*****.mp4&#8243; webm=”https://*****.webm&#8221; poster=”https://*****.jpg&#8221; loop=”true” overlay=”false” overlay_color=”#000″ overlay_alpha=”0″ muted=”false”]’); ?>
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    * for security reasons i replaced the original directories with asterisks, btw ??

    Guess what; that didn’t function either.

    Last but not least, I’ve added the last code to a custom CSS but that also didn’t work.

    In short; what am I doing wrong? Please help. I like consistency in all of my websites so it would be nice this marvelous video heading would work as nicely as it does on my aformentioned blog ??

    Keep up the good work (and please forgive me my English; it’s a bit rusty and not my native language)

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by eamel.
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  • Thread Starter eamel

    (@eamel)

    Anyone?

    Is this support section even active? Or does nobody no the answer to this question?

    Plugin Contributor blakedotvegas

    (@blakedotvegas)

    Hi eamel,

    Thanks for using Video Background.

    For the Video Background on the https://photo.eamel.net/ webpage. Please try setting your container element to “#masthead img” and see if that does the trick! I believe the .gif image was overlaying the video background, causing it not to display correctly.

    Blake

    Thread Starter eamel

    (@eamel)

    Hello, Blake. Thank you for your reply.

    I’m a bit confused since I don’t know where to put the code from your plugin ([vidbg container=”body” mp4=”#” webm=”#” poster=”#” loop=”true” overlay=”false” overlay_color=”#000″ overlay_alpha=”0.3″ muted=”false”]) in the header.php.

    The original code is this:

    <?php
    /**
    * The Header for our theme.
    *
    * Displays all of the <head> section and everything up till <div id=”main”>
    *
    * @package nightwatch
    * @since nightwatch 1.0.2
    */
    ?><!DOCTYPE html>
    <html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
    <head>
    <meta charset=”<?php bloginfo( ‘charset’ ); ?>” />
    <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width” />
    <title><?php
    /*
    * Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
    */
    global $page, $paged;

    wp_title( ‘|’, true, ‘right’ );

    // Add the blog name.
    bloginfo( ‘name’ );

    // Add the blog description for the home/front page.
    $site_description = get_bloginfo( ‘description’, ‘display’ );
    if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
    echo ” | $site_description”;

    // Add a page number if necessary:
    if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
    echo ‘ | ‘ . sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘nightwatch’ ), max( $paged, $page ) );

    ?></title>
    <link rel=”profile” href=”https://gmpg.org/xfn/11&#8243; />
    <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo( ‘pingback_url’ ); ?>” />

    <?php wp_head(); ?>
    </head>

    <body <?php body_class(); ?>>
    <div id=”page” class=”hfeed site”>

    <header id=”masthead” class=”site-header” role=”banner”>

    <hgroup>
    <h1 class=”site-title”>” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( ‘name’, ‘display’ ) ); ?>” rel=”home”><?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?></h1>
    <h2 class=”site-description”><?php bloginfo( ‘description’ ); ?></h2>
    </hgroup>

    <nav role=”navigation” class=”site-navigation main-navigation”>
    <h1 class=”assistive-text”><?php _e( ‘Menu’, ‘nightwatch’ ); ?></h1>
    <div class=”assistive-text skip-link”>“><?php _e( ‘Skip to content’, ‘nightwatch’ ); ?></div>

    <?php wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’ ) ); ?>
    </nav><!– .site-navigation .main-navigation –>

    <?php $header_image = get_header_image();
    if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) { ?>
    ” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( ‘name’, ‘display’ ) ); ?>” rel=”home”>
    ” width=”<?php echo get_custom_header()->width; ?>” height=”<?php echo get_custom_header()->height; ?>” alt=”” />

    <?php } // if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) ?>

    </header><!– #masthead .site-header –>

    <div id=”main” class=”site-main”>

    But where to go from there?

    Really appreciate your help!

    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by eamel.
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