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xefned

Every time I create a new page template in WordPress - for example category-news.php, or single-portfolio.php, I duplicate my header.php to call custom javascript libraries that won't be used elsewhere on the site.

so in category-news.php, I call my header like this: get_header(news);
and in single-portfolio.php, I call my header like so: get_header(portfolio);

Then I create header-news.php and header-portfolio.php in which 85% of the code is the same. Now when I want to make a single change to my header, I have to change it in multiple files. It seems like I MUST be doing something wrong.

Is there a way to *extend* my header to keep "all the basics" + these two jquery plugins for a given post template?

Thanks for any advice. A google search is making me feel like I'm the only person in the world who has this problem so I must be missing something obvious, Thank, Matth

standuncan

Hmm... off the top of my head php variables is one way. An example:

header.php



<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.js"></script&gt;
<script src="js/nav.dropdown.js"></script>
<?php echo $pageSpecific; ?>

single-portfolio.php (at top of document)



<?php $pageSpecific='<script src="js/portfolio.js"></script>'; ?>

category-news.php (at top of document)



<?php $pageSpecific='<script src="js/news.js"></script>'; ?>

xefned

Genius! Thanks Stan.
That's exactly what I'm going to do. Thanks for the help.

standuncan

There's probably other ways as well, but that's all I can think of right now though...

TheDoc

I never, ever, ever have more than one header.php file.

In my header.php I'll do things like this:


<?php
    if ( is_page() ) {
        // do something
    }
?>

It's all about the conditionals. Here are all of the different ones you can use (there are a lot!): http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

In your specific case, I would do something like this:


<?php
    if ( is_page_template( 'category-news.php' ) ) {
        // load your specific scripts
    }
?>

standuncan

@TheDoc, are those WP specific?

TheDoc

Yup!

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[Solved] I have 8 header.php variations in WordPress. I must be doing something wrong.