Dog Chasin' Tail to get slider in widget in main_content on page

[mitchcan]

Yelp.

I’ve been like a ‘dog chasing his tail’ for several hours trying to get a Revolution Slider to show up on the top of the page that is set as “Posts Page” in /admin/reading settings. Now I understand that anything I add as content to the page set as such does not display… I get that.

So instead I tried to post something in the widget area I created and placed in functions in the ‘before_main_content’ – don’t get me started on how many different ways I got that to display on about every page EXCEPT the one I wanted.

COPY CODE

/* this added a widget area before main content ONLY not SB - works on Kleo pages */
add_action('kleo_before_main_content','kleo_top_main_content');
function kleo_top_main_content() {
     echo '<div id="before-main-content">', do_shortcode('[widgets_on_pages id="wop-3"]'), '</div>';  //shortcode possible here
} 

I try and place the Rev Slider widget in the widget area ‘wop-3’, and it only displays the title, and it displays it on every page EXCEPT the page id listed to use in the Rev Slider widget – but maybe that’s because I listed the Posts Page id, and that doesn’t work right when set in /reading. I dunno?

Anyhoo, to make a short story long, I’m simply trying to get a Revolution Slider to show up in the before_main_content area and ONLY on the Page that is set as Posts Page in /admin/reading.

Any wisdom out there to point me in a direction… it don’t seem likely that this dog is gonna catch his damn tail. 🙂

Thanks.

[sharmstr]

is_home will check to see if the current page is your blog page. http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Blog_Page

You dont need to use widgets on page. You can use putRevSlider to add the slider you want.

COPY CODE

add_action('kleo_before_main_content','kleo_top_main_content');
function kleo_top_main_content() {
    if (is_home()) {
        echo '<div id="before-main-content">', putRevSlider( "yourslideralias" ), '</div>';
    }
}

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[mitchcan]

OK, first, that’s hilarious. This entire time I’ve been specifically trying NOT to place it on home, thinking home meant, well, you know, Home (as in Front Page) vs Posts. In my last theme, I didn’t mess with the reading settings, it was built to overtake the Your Latest Posts setting. So I missed that info. Thanks.

But back to the strategy of placing it via the widgets setup.

My rationale, possibly flawed as usual, 🙂 was that I often use multiple widgets in each of the widget ‘areas’ I created in kleo_before_content, kleo_before_main etc, then I use Dynamic Widgets plugin to determine the display of each widget.

In using the Rev Slider php directly, I don’t want to lose the ability to still use that widget ‘area.’

I’m no php guy, but can I still make that happen by doing something like

COPY CODE

add_action('kleo_before_main_content','kleo_top_main_content');
function kleo_top_main_content() {
    if (is_home()) {
        echo '<div id="before-main-content">', putRevSlider( "featured-posts" ), '</div>';
}
else 
{
echo '<div id="before-main-content">', do_shortcode('[widgets_on_pages id="wop-3"]'), '</div>';  //could put shortcode here
   }
} 

I have no clue if that is structurally correct, but conceptually, would something like that work to allow me to still have the ‘wop-3’ widget area functional?

Thanks for setting me straight on some of the usage here.

Have a great weekend!

[sharmstr]

Yep. That should do it.

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[sharmstr]

and by the way, after all this time, I still think its is_blog, then I google it and remember its is_home 🙂

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[mitchcan]

It’s funny, but it NEVER even occurred to me to even remotely consider using is_home() when I was specifically trying to NOT place it on the “home” page. I was fixated on page id 122731 (which is the id of the page that I set as Posts in /reading) as the way to get the slider on the blog posts page. Ooops. 🙂

Thanks again!

[sharmstr]

ahahahahaha I just noticed your tags.

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