Custom page templates and Headers

[Jeffreydotfong]

Hi there,

I am new to genesis but have played with wordpress twentytwelve before.

I am trying to create a new page template and use a customised header-Landing.php specifically for my landing page. This is easy in twenty twelve because get_header is already in the page template. You just call the header.php file you want...

In genesis, I have managed to remove the header and call a new header-landing.php, but I cannot seem to hook in 'get_header' at the right place. The customised header is being pulled outside the "site-container", as if the new header is being called - then gensis() function runs after it.

How can effectively hook my customised header.php file into the genesis_header location hook?

my page template code:

<?php
/*

Template Name: Landing page template

 */

//Removing the header http://wpsites.net/web-design/remove-header/
remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_header_markup_open', 5 );
remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_do_header' );
remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_header_markup_close', 15 );

//getting the custom header file
add_action('genesis_header', get_header('Landing'));

genesis();

?>

[Brad Dalton]

You can use get_template_part in a custom function or echo the image in directly from your template using a custom function with the genesis_header hook.

Or

print the image using a custom function with hook and condtional tag from your functions file.

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[Jeffreydotfong]

Thanks Brad,

I tried to use get_template_part ('Header','Landing') but just got the same result: the header ends up outside the site-container created by the genesis() function. It seems my actions aren't actually hooking into the right place:

add_action('genesis_header', get_template_part('Header','Landing'));

By creating a custom function, do you mean re-creating the genesis() function? Or just using echo to pull in a particular header image - I was hoping I could use the same header for different page templates or the different headers for the same template...

[Jeffreydotfong]

Ah actually, calling it in a custom function worked.

add_action('genesis_header', 'loadlandingheader');
    function loadlandingheader() {
        get_template_part('Header','Landing');
}
      

How come I had to call it in a custom function to get it to sit inside the genesis() site-container?

[Brad Dalton]

Thats how it works.

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[Jeffreydotfong]

Haha, great. I won't be adding anymore actions without a new function then!

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