image from child theme specified in parent theme functions.php

  • ResolvedModerator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    I have developed a parent theme which will be reused across several sites, each with a custom child theme. I want a login logo for each site which will use a graphic in the images directory in the child theme.

    I have included the following in my functions.php of the parent theme:

    <?php
// ===== ADD CUSTOM LOGO TO LOGIN
function my_custom_login_logo() {
    echo '<style type="text/css">
        h1 a { background-image:url('.get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/login-logo.png) !important; }
    </style>';
}

add_action('login_head', 'my_custom_login_logo');

?>

    However this only works if the login-logo.png is located in the parent theme, but this is not my goal as I want to use a different login-logo.png graphic for each site from the child theme. How can get the functions.php to pull in the graphic from the child theme rather than the parent?

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    I found the answer after some more searching.

    Using

    get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory')

    instead of

    get_bloginfo('template_directory')

    Makes it get the image from the child theme rather than the parent.

    mikeward

    (@mikeward)

    16 years ago

    You ALMOST got me where I needed to go. I tried:

    get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory')

    and it did not work but:

    bloginfo('stylesheet_directory')

    Did.

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

    amandafrench

    (@amandafrench)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for this. I’m very close to getting it to work; my only problem is that I’m not too familiar with PHP syntax. I have this array in my child theme’s functions.php:

    function my_child_theme_setup() {
           register_default_headers( array(
		'thatcamp-default' => array(
			'url' => '%s/images/headers/thatcamp-default.png',
			'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/headers/thatcamp-default-thumbnail.png',
			/* translators: header image description */
			'description' => __( 'THATCamp Default', 'twentyten' )
		),
		'thatcamp-purple' => array(
			'url' => '%s/images/headers/thatcamp-purple.png',
			'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/headers/thatcamp-purple.png',
			/* translators: header image description */
			'description' => __( 'THATCamp Purple', 'twentyten' )
		),

    (and so on). I know that I need to replace the placeholder %s, which is currently pointing to the parent theme directory, with either bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') or get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') but I’m danged if I can figure out the correct syntax.

    amandafrench

    (@amandafrench)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Aha! I found a great site with exactly the syntax I needed to define a constant and use it in the URL — I forgot to mention above that we’re using Multisite.

    http://wptheming.com/2010/06/wordpress-directory-paths/

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