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Banana
Banana

Reputation: 4218

Customized header

I am making a wordpress theme. Normally I have a header file, but I want it to slightly differ from page to page, that is I want it to contain additional text that is different for each page (and is not general, like an article title, but it's like on one page I need a title, on the other a link, etc.)

What is the best practice to do this? Change the text from JavaScript? I don't want to have separate header files, just to somehow change text in a div included in this header file.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 99

Answers (2)

Kortschot
Kortschot

Reputation: 977

Does this do something for 'ya?

<?php
   if (function_exists('is_tag') && is_tag()) {
      single_tag_title("Tag archive fot &quot;"); echo '&quot; - '; }
   elseif (is_archive()) {
      wp_title(''); echo ' archive - '; }
   elseif (!(is_404()) && (is_single()) || (is_page())) {
      wp_title(''); echo ' - '; }
   elseif (is_404()) {
      echo 'Whoops, nothing here! - '; }
   if (is_home()) {
      bloginfo('name'); echo ' - '; bloginfo('description'); }
   else {
       bloginfo('name'); }
   if ($paged>1) {
      echo ' - page '. $paged; }
?>

With conditional tags you can server different stuff for certain pages.

/Paul

Upvotes: 1

mishu
mishu

Reputation: 5397

This depends on how much change is needed. I am guessing that you can have a function or a different file included in header.php

A very common way to approach this would be to have different header files in your theme. By default you should have a header.php file. You could also create files like header-name.php and use the optional parameter for the get_header function.

In your themes the header file is included by using the get_header function but usually with no parameter. But if you use it like this:

get_header('name');

the custom file header-name.php will be used. You could as well use different pages templates (see this) for some sections and each could include a different header file using the method described above.

Upvotes: 0

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