Slider on non-static home page

[keriParticipant]

I’m using the Outreach child theme and am trying to insert a slider on my home page between the menu and the loop (at the genesis_before_content hook), but am having some problems… sort of.

I added the following to functions.php:

add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'kw_before_content', 1);
function kw_before_content() {
if ( is_home())
echo do_shortcode('[layerslider id="5"]');}


This works great, displaying it only on the homepage (don’t want it on static pages) except there’s no space between the slider and the content. So, I figured that it would be simple enough to just wrap the slider in some divs and add some padding like this:

add_action( ‘genesis_before_content’, ‘kw_before_content’, 1);
function kw_before_content() {
if ( is_home())
echo ‘<div style=padding-bottom: 10px>’;
echo do_shortcode(‘[layerslider id="5"]‘);
echo ‘</div>’;}

This displays fine on the home page, with the padding just right… but it displays on every other page as well, without the padding. I tried sticking wp_reset_query into the footer to try resetting the is_home function, but that just broke the site (I’m not exactly sure that I did it properly though… just added the line add_action('genesis_footer','wp_reset_query'); right above the conditional statement, but within the function kw_before_content.). Also tried putting this into the conditional statement:

&& !is_page() 

But still no luck. Putting the divs is is screwing things up, and I’ve got a feeling it’s something extremely simple that I’m overlooking.

Does anyone know how I can fix this problem? Or if there’s another easy way to get a slider to do what I want?

Here’s the site (just started working on it, don’t judge): http://www.keriwilk.com

Thanks so much for any help you can provide!

 

Keri

[keriParticipant]

Well that’s embarrassing…. obviously I’ve never submitted a post here, so I’m sorry about the weird formatting of that post!

Keri

[nickthegeekKeymaster Post count: 597]

Keri,

While we work on getting a better system for the on site code. Could you put your code into pastie.org and share teh link.

http://pastie.org

[keriParticipant]

http://pastie.org/5508045#

By the way, I’ve found your Genesis tutorials incredibly helpful, Nick. You’re doing a great job.

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