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New Home Page complex template

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Started 1 year ago by Florent
Latest reply from Devin
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Florent
Member

Hi,

Could you please help me.

I want to create a specific Home Page with complex layout that I could not achieve with the dynamic template.

But, I want this template to work as the others templates do : get content from the page that specify that template, slideshow options and images from that page, etc. ...

What is the best solution ? where must I declare this template ?, do I need to create a specific .php template or declare more options on configuration pages ?

I hope you could answer me quickly

Thanks.
Florent

Posted 1 year ago #
Kriesi
Key Master

Hey!

If you need to create a page layout that is not possible with the dynamic template builder you will probably need to build a .php template.
If you can attach a small mockup what elements that page should include I can decide if its something that would be covered by the support here or if you need to get a freelancer (or code it on your own) :)

Cheers
Kriesi

Posted 1 year ago #
Florent
Member

Hi,

Thanks for your answer, but I will code it myself I think.

The only think I'm searching is how could I "tag" a post or page to detect it and use a personnal template/layout (which uses some codes of the avia templates like slideshow).

Regards.
Florent

Posted 1 year ago #
Kriesi
Key Master

Hi!

Hey!

I would recommend to use custom fiels to "tag" your posts:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields

Here is how you query a post by custom field:

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/11049/query-posts-or-get-posts-by-custom-fields-possible

Regards,
Kriesi

Posted 1 year ago #
Florent
Member

cool Thanks,

And Where must I place this code to redirect to the right Template ? and be sure I can use the specific slideshow and layout parameters of your template ?

One more thing .... :-)
What is the code to call a specific Slideshow and place it in my template (like it is possible with meteor_slideshow : if ( function_exists( 'meteor_slideshow' ) ) { meteor_slideshow( "Home", "" ); } )?

Thanks a lot.
Florent

Posted 1 year ago #
Devin
Moderator

Hey Florent,

If you follow the custom page template guidelines from wordpress, you can choose the template in the dropdown whenever you create a new page. See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

You can look at the templates already in the theme files for some direction.

As for calling a specific slideshow, that won't really be possible with the way they are done with the theme. Each slideshow is attached to the page it was created on.

Posted 1 year ago #