different headers on different pages?

[thomasdarley]

hi, is it possible to have a different header on different pages?

http://www.ianthomasdarley.com what am looking to do is have a offer / optin per page dependent on viewers interest?

coaching been one
business / marketing tips been another

liked to have kept it all on one site but if thats not possible will link from the menu to another domain and set new site

thanks is advance and hope that makes sense?

Ian

[ben_pyman]

Hey Ian.

Welcome to Catalyst if you haven't been welcomed already.

Sure is possible to have different headers in different pages... Check this out: http://catalysttheme.com/how-to-disp...fferent-pages/

Re separate sites, sometimes that's a good option, and Catalyst works very well with Wordpress Multisite which can be a great way to manage them.

But really, what it sounds like you want to do can be easily achieved in a single site with some custom layouts per the screencast. You can use categories and specific sidebar content per section that is most applicable.

Have fun with it!

Ben

[thomasdarley]

Thanks Ben, and sorry for the delay in reply

Had not set up "email" when some one reply's to post

Thanks for the warm welcome and will take look over at the screen cast

loving the upside down pic!

[thomasdarley]

hi guys,

is it possible to have the different headers showing for different categories?

meaning i have set my nav bar with 3 separate links to 3 separate categories think it , live it, do it,

i wanted to display different header for each one with different offer

have tried changing the layout to custom in the posts section with no joy... is it possible to do? or is it just for pages?

thanks in advance ian

[thomasdarley]

just a update, have managed to get the header show for categorie if you click on the blog post itself but it dont work from the nav bar? am at a loss with that one?

second thing been 2 out of the three work fine yet the "doing" check it out here www.ianthomasdarley.com has what meant to be in the header floating above the site? yet i have triple checked and it is same as other pages? help?

have used the hide code as explained in link previous in this post... still no joy

so appreciate some guidance as its boiling my swede lol

[justme]

I think we need to clarify exactly what you are trying to do.

Do you want the different headers to display only on the Category pages (linked to from the menu items) or on both the Category and single Post pages?

There are different kinds of pages - the blog page is different from the posts pages which are different from the category pages. How you set things up will depend on what you want the different pages to do.

If you have regular Category links in the menu, those links will direct to Category archive pages (as distinquished from single Post pages). When you click on a Post Title you are taken to a single post page which is a different type of page from Category pages. You can make the headers the same or different for both types of pages. We just need to know which you want.

[thomasdarley]

thanks for explaining i had not realized all that

am after different headers displaying on different category pages, so if you click on "think it" (which is category) in the nav bar or if you click on a post from the blog which is a "think it" tagged post it displays with the same header

hope that makes sense

love this place... appreciate help so much

[thomasdarley]

ps. forgot to mention i still have not managed to work out why i have a floating header? when you click on "doing it" category posts... it is set up exactly same as the others...

thanks in advance

[eric]

You should be able to do this will a little custom PHP code. Basically, you would roughly follow the instructions given in the screencast linked to above, but instead just create a single Custom Hook Box and set it to display on ALL Layouts, and then paste in the following code, tweaking it to your specific needs:

<?php if( is_category( 'Category #1' ) || in_category( 'Category #1' ) ) { ?>
YOUR CATEGORY #1 HEADER IMAGE
<?php } elseif( is_category( 'Category #2' ) || in_category( 'Category #2' ) ) { ?>
YOUR CATEGORY #2 HEADER IMAGE
<?php } elseif( is_category( 'Category #3' ) || in_category( 'Category #3' ) ) { ?>
YOUR CATEGORY #3 HEADER IMAGE
<?php } ?>

Eric

Eric

[sonny]

Hello Eric,
Speaking of Header images. I created a Custom Layout and added a different header image to it. However the original image (belonging to the default layout header) is still behind the new one. Does that mean that the header on my custom layout must have the exact the same size as the default header.? I need the header on the custom page to be narrower the one on the default page. How can I achieve that?
Sonny