Add Slide Deck Slider In Any Themes Header

Slide deck is one of the best plugins for creating slide shows in WordPress. It offers both a free ‘Lite’ version and premium version. If you want to display custom content or videos in a slider, Slide Deck is the best plugin for this purpose.

I’ve already shown you how to install Easing slider and Soliloquy image sliders in different header area’s and hook locations in any theme.

In this tutorial, i’ll show you how to install and display the content of your Slide Deck slide show anywhere in any theme. The themes used for this tutorial are Twenty Twelve and the Genesis Design Framework.

The below image is a picture of what Slide Deck looks like when pulling YouTube videos into the header of the Twenty Twelve default theme for WordPress.

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Here’s the code you need to paste into your template file when using a child theme for Twenty Eleven or Twenty Twelve.

Here’s what it looks like in your header template file which should be copied to your child theme.

If you’re using a premium theme framework like Genesis which includes hooks, you should use this code.

Output Slide Deck Home Page Header Genesis

This code should be pasted at the end of your child themes functions.php file. It includes a conditional tag so it only displays on the home page. It also includes the genesis_header hook so it displays in the header position. Both the conditional tag and hook can be changed.

Don’t forget to replace the i.d in the shortcode with the i.d for the slide show you want to display.

Display Slide Deck Home Page Twenty Twelve

Paste this code in any position in the header.php file. You are advised to copy the header.php file from your parent theme and place it in a child theme. This way the code for the slider and any other custom coding won’t be lost when you update the parent theme files.

Here’s what it looks like in your header template file which should be copied to your child theme.