Custom header for Date/home pages not loading once migrated

[Jeffreydotfong]

Hi There, I'm using genesis.

I recently migrated my site to a live server at http://testing.fastpackjournal.com/journal/. I built it offline and used MAMP. My "Journal" or blog home page had a custom header which I named "header-Home.php". I used this code successfully in Home.php (on my locally hosted site) to load the custom header...

add_action('genesis_header', 'load_home_page_header');
    function load_home_page_header() {
        get_header('Blog_home'); 
}

However, once I migrated the site live to bluehost, the Home.php index loads but NOT the header. It defaults to my header-index.php. It cannot call any other headers so it it not a header file issue. This exact call is working on my Single.php file, so I can't see how it is a code error.

How can I get my live site to load custom headers on the index pages?

http://testing.fastpackjournal.com/journal/

[Victor Font]

Did you first remove the standard Genesis header?

remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_header_markup_open', 5 );
remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_header_markup_close', 15 );
remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_do_header' );

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Victor
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[Jeffreydotfong]

Hi Victor,

Yes, I have that exact code.

The strangest bit is that it works on my locally hosted site, but not on the live server!

Jeff

[Victor Font]

What's the actual name of the template file? Your local installation may not be case sensitive whereas the production server is. With the parameter you're passing to the get_header function, it will be trying to load header-Blog_home.php. Make sure the spelling is exact.

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Regards,

Victor
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[Jeffreydotfong]

Hi Victor,

The file names were exact. I neglected to mention that I had a custom index header. I have solved the issue with this code in my index.php:

// Header for home and index pages singled out...
add_action('genesis_header', 'load_project_page_header');
    function load_project_page_header() {
        if (is_home() || is_date()) {
            get_header('Blog_home'); 
        }
        else {
            get_header('index'); 
        }
}

Thanks for your help! Seems to be an issue with my installation of wordpress though.

Jeff

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