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Struggling with Dynamic theme - Page split vs. Sidebar

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Started 2 months ago by tacularmatt
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tacularmatt
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Hi, I'm struggling with the dynamic template a little. I'm trying to create a dynamic template with a sidebar ordered in the following way

- Page Split (slideshow area)
- Text area (Paragraph style - contains 3rd party slider)
- Page Split (main content)

The problem is the sidebar runs the entire length of the page and effectively stretches the first page split (and the text area) to it's own length and then tags the main content on the end.

How do I work around this and achieve the traditional header/slider/content with sidebar layout?

Posted 2 months ago #
tacularmatt
Member

...or alternatively, if I use the standard "sidebar-right" layout, how can I insert custom/3rd-party sliders into individual pages?

Posted 2 months ago #
tacularmatt
Member

nothing?

Posted 2 months ago #
Dude
Dude

If the custom/3rd-party slider offers a wordpress shortcode you can simply insert the shortcode into the page content. If the slider does not support wordpress out of the box (i.e. if it's just a script and not a wordpress plugin) you can use the html editor (switch from visual to html mode) to insert your slider code directly into the page.

Posted 2 months ago #
tacularmatt
Member

The Slider is Layerslider WP and it does support shortcodes and I can drop it into the main content without issue, I'm struggling to find an efficient way to insert it into the templates big slideshow area below the header area

Posted 2 months ago #

Dude
Dude

That's not easily possible because you'd need to heavily modify the slideshow generator class in wp-content\themes\choices\includes\helper-slideshow.php. Another solution would be to replace the slideshow call in header.php with your shortcode - so i.e. replace:

if(!empty($avia_config['slide_output']))
			{
				echo "<!-- ####### SLIDESHOW CONTAINER ####### -->";
				echo "<div id='slideshow_big' class='slideshow_color container_wrap ".avia_is_dark_bg('slideshow_color', true)."'><span class='top_stripe_shadow'></span>";
				echo "<div class='container'>".$avia_config['slide_output']."</div></div>";
			}

with.

$sliderdata = do_shortcode('[myslider]');
if(!empty($avia_config['slide_output']))
			{
				echo "<!-- ####### SLIDESHOW CONTAINER ####### -->";
				echo "<div id='slideshow_big' class='slideshow_color container_wrap ".avia_is_dark_bg('slideshow_color', true)."'><span class='top_stripe_shadow'></span>";
				echo "<div class='container'>".$avia_config['slide_output']."</div></div>";
			}
			else if(!empty($sliderdata ))
			{
				echo "<!-- ####### SLIDESHOW CONTAINER ####### -->";
				echo "<div id='slideshow_big' class='slideshow_color container_wrap ".avia_is_dark_bg('slideshow_color', true)."'><span class='top_stripe_shadow'></span>";
				echo "<div class='container'>".$sliderdata."</div></div>";
			}