[Plugin: Meteor Slides] I cannot place the Meteor slider on the correct place

Hi Pupy, can you post a link to the site you’re working on?

Sure. Here is :
https://www.labuenapipa.com/delta/

Just for your information, I am including the code “<?php if ( function_exists( ‘meteor_slideshow’ ) ) { meteor_slideshow(); }” in the last line of Stylesheet of my theme (Weaver II eCommerce 1.0). I don′t know whether this is the correct place or not.

I am approaching the same thing here. That code you refer to should go in the theme files, such as header.php

However if you replace that in the header.php file, where it would generally add the featured header image ( if defined ), it would add the slideshow to every page on the site.

I think that I am going to move the header logic into the page.php file, then overriding it for the home page using a custom page template. The plugin developer has a nice post on the subject here:
https://www.jleuze.com/creating-your-own-page-templates/

I am using a child theme of 2011 but the approach should be similar. I will let you know once I have it worked out. As well, I think this will allow me to drop slideshows in the header image on any page I need, unless I am going to use a basic header image instead.

The plugin is well documented but this aspect of deployment is the only thing I didn’t see covered on the site, so I am filling in the gaps with what I have learned so far about theming, so I may or may not be on the right track ??

The fact is the slider runs perfectly on the assigned page but, theoretically, when I use the Per-page customs field “header” with the meteor value it should place the slider in the same place that the standard header. Unfortunately the widgets appear below the slider, so I think I am doing something wrong. It is my first time with WP and , needless to say, I am a complete newbie with php, codes …

@pupy I think the spot you are adding the slideshow template tag to is only for CSS, not PHP like the template tag. That only adds it to one spot in the header anyway so it won’t be of use to you.

There are a couple things you could try. You could use the slideshow shortcode in Weaver Admin > Advanced Settings > HTML Insertion > Site Header Insert Code. But that would be sitewide and it might still be above the widgets.

Do you only need this on the homepage? To get it in the right spot, I would use the slideshow widget to add it to your header widgets, then you can move it where you want in relation to the other widgets. To get this widget loaded on just the homepage, try a plugin like Widget Logic.

@mcsolas I would use some conditional tags for this. Then you can keep it in your header and load it when you want to.

You could use “is_front_page” or “is_home” to load it on just the homepage, or you could check if the page has a featured image and if it does load that instead of the slideshow. You could even get the page slug and check if there is a matching slideshow slug and load different slideshows on different pages dynamically.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I see this is a much better solution. I would have been reordering some wp basic functions into different files and I wasn’t sure if that was the best idea. Maybe you should mention this on the docs. Thanks again for the help!

No problem!

Thanks Josh for your support. I know it was not a Meteor issue but something related to WP. I will try to manage correctly the spots configuration. Yesterday I was unable to do it because I was fighting with migration issues to my root web. Best regards
Pupy

ok guys , having a similar issue , i am working with a theme called tp sunrise , the site is

https://www.d1023697.cp.blacknight.com/rockmountafcwp/

i am trying to use the metor slide show plugin to insert a slideshow instead of a header image. i have done so already in this site using an animated gif but the file size is large and the quality poor.

my html skills and css skills are good but php is a new to me allthough grasping it slowly.

can you point me in the right direction.
robert

that post went a bit funny the site i am working on is

https://www.d1023697.cp.blacknight.com/rockmountafcwp/

Robert, I followed up with you in the thread you created.