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different headers on each wordpress page

Asked by: cristobal_ny

I have a custom theme in wordpress and would like to have a different header on each page
the pages are the following:

Travel Journal, About Us, Media Resources, Support, More

I attached the code from the current header.php file

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head> 
  <title><?php if (is_home()) { echo bloginfo('name'); } elseif (is_404()) { echo '404'; } elseif (is_search()) { echo 'Search Results'; } elseif (is_single()) { echo wp_title(''); } else { echo wp_title(''); } ?></title>
  
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
  <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'); ?>" /> 
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />	
  <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
  <meta name="description" content="Here goes the description of the website." />
  <meta name="keywords" content="Keyword, of, the, website, go, here, seperate, by, commas" /> 
</head> 
<body>
	
 <div id="wrapper"> 
	<div id="header">
		<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Next Destination') ) : ?><strong>NextDestination:</strong>Add a text widget under Next Destination sidebar with the title Next Destination and in the content where it is....<?php endif; ?>
	</div> <!-- #header --> 
	<div id="navigation">
		<ul>
			<li class="<?php if (is_home()) { echo 'current_page_item'; } else { echo 'normal'; } ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Travel Journal</a></li>
			<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1' ); ?>
		</ul>
	</div> <!-- #navigation --> 
<div class="cwrap">
	<div id="content"> 
		<div class="logo">
			<p><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/logo.gif" width="699" height="260" alt="Logo" /></a></p>
		</div><!-- .logo -->

                                  
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2009-11-06 at 23:39:23ID24880100
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Answers

 

by: jmyeomPosted on 2009-11-07 at 07:59:51ID: 25766740

i think wordpress defines what page it is, so try look for that ..

if( THISPAGE =="About Us") {
blah blah blah
}

or

if( THISPAGE =="About Us") {
include "header.php?ID=about us";
}

 

by: cristobal_nyPosted on 2009-11-07 at 08:18:20ID: 25766818

can you please show me hot it is done in the code?The header is logo.gif

 

by: razor19Posted on 2009-11-07 at 08:50:15ID: 25766997

There's a couple of different way that you could do this.

The best way would be to use a custom field - then you would use the custom field to point to an image. Since this is outside the loop, the code is a bit different.

So lets use headerImage as the name of the custom field

To use this (because you are outside of the loop) you can use this code:

<?php
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
echo get_post_meta($postid, 'headerImage', true);
?>

So on each page / post you need to define headerImage in the "custom fields section of your page".

So your code should become this:

<img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/<?php global $wp_query; $postid = $wp_query->post->ID; echo get_post_meta($postid, 'customField', true); ?>" width="699" height="260" alt="Logo" />

So upload all the different images to the same folder your images are in now. Then, define the custom field (headerImage) using the file name. So on one post / page it could be "logo.gif" then on another you could have "logo8.jpg".

I hope that's clear.

 

by: cristobal_nyPosted on 2009-11-07 at 09:09:22ID: 25767095

thankyou I'll test test it and get back to you on Monday

 

by: cristobal_nyPosted on 2009-11-11 at 10:12:12ID: 25797381

I don't understand well
how will the final file look like? what do you mean outside the loop?

I saw that the wp control panel has a field for custom code name and value.
on name should I add the name of the image?
and on value:

<img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/<?php global $wp_query; $postid = $wp_query->post->ID; echo get_post_meta($postid, 'customField', true); ?>" width="699" height="260" alt="Logo" />

is this correct?

 

by: cristobal_nyPosted on 2009-11-12 at 21:20:44ID: 25811567

I found the solution on the following link:
http://wpguru.co.za/header/custom-header-images-for-wordpress-pages/

it also uses the custom fields

but the code that goes in the header.php is:

<? if (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'header', true)) { ?>
      <img src="<? bloginfo('url'); ?>image path<? echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'header', true) ?>" alt="<? bloginfo('name'); ?>" />
<? } else { ?>
      <img src="<? bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/header.jpg" />
<? } ?>


this code replaces the <img src of the image of the header

in the custom field
you use header in the key
and the name of the file in value

 

by: razor19Posted on 2009-11-12 at 21:32:56ID: 25811603

Sorry - I should have explained better.

The loop is what displays the posts on your page. It looks like this:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

and ends here:

<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>


The code that you use to call a custom field is different if your code is outside of that loop.

I would say the code that you found is slightly better - I should have included the else statement.

Take a look at these pages, it will really help you in your WP theme development / skills:

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops
http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields

Glad you found the solution!

Cheers,
Mike

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