Cormac Bracken

Oddly, I found that the Chrome extension “Murdoch Block” was responsible for this error (in my case). It can simply be disabled in Chrome extension settings.

Confirmed, it clashed with the latest version of Contact Form 7’s date tag.

Which is unfortunate, because CF7’s date tag has a whole bunch of problems. It uses HTML5, and the jquery fallback is very limited (can’t format date, set language, etc) and breaks on Android’s browser.

Ahhhh… a missing closing bracket at the end of every is_page line.

It should be like this:

<?php function rhl_select_slide_header() {
	 if ( function_exists( 'meteor_slideshow' ) ) {
		if ( is_page( 'veryfoodEN' )) {
			meteor_slideshow( "vfhome" );
			}
		elseif ( is_page( 'azienda' )) {
			meteor_slideshow( "vfazienda" );
			}
		elseif ( is_page( 'cosafacciamo' )) {
			meteor_slideshow( "vfcosafacciamo" );
			}
		else
			get_header_image(); //default-fallback if none of the above are true
		}
}
?>

all of the function text above is all that’s showing in place of the slideshow?

To clarify, you mean when you view the site in your browser, you can see the code?
If so, you just need to put <?php before the start of that code, and ?> after the end. Most template files are a mixture of html and php code. We use those two things to indicate the start and end of a section of php code.

would another way of doing this (selecting between static images and slideshows) be to take it all out of the header.php and create another page template or 2 – and put the code in these templates instead?

That’s possible -with some extra stuff to do – but since you’d have to create a page template for each individual page – and then maintain each one if you change something else in the page design – I wouldn’t recommend it.

not all of the pages will need a slideshow in the header spot. 2 will require a static image like featured image, and one section no image at all (products). Do i just put if/else statements for these other pages too and set what they should be?

Yes.

Does your theme currently put featured images into the header area? If so, you should be able to use get_header_image() (with nothing inside the brackets) instead of meteor_slideshow( "slideshow-blah" ).

oh i have made a menu with pages..

Then forget my ramblings about categories and hooks, and stick with pages and directly editing the template.

Can you set featured image to be a slideshow instead of a static pic?

Nope. Well, you can achieve the effect you want, but not by using the featured image functionality.

I have no idea how to do it

Make a few slideshows, one for each page. Also decide which one is to be the default – probably one that should go on your home page. As you’re creating them, you’ll be asked to provide a slug. Make a note of each one. In my code above, these slugs appear as “slideshow-slug-1” etc.

Make a few pages. The content can be blank for now, but you’ll need to provide a title. Then WP will automatically create a slug, which appears below the Title field in the page editor. You can edit that slug if you want. Make a note of each one. In my code above, *these* slugs appear as “page-slug-1” etc.

Open headers.php. As I understand it, you’ve already put in a line there, to display a single slideshow. Delete that line, and paste the code above. Now modify the code, so that each is_page() contains one of the page slugs you noted, and each meteor_slideshow() contains the appropriate slideshow slug to match that page. For the last pair of lines, the else, put your default slideshow slug. If WP doesn’t recognise which page it’s on from the previous options, it’ll show this one. Typically that might be the homepage, but it could also be any other page, such as pages added after you’ve finished the design.