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Embeding Video welcome message in slider spot on home page

First – I am *loving* scholar theme.

I recorded a welcome video, and I’d like to embed that on the home page, in place of the slider area.

Any idea how I might accomplish this?

Thanks much!

Todd

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 3:26:51
  • Tammie
    • WordPress Wizard

    @toddfarmer: Glad you like the theme. You would have to edit the actual template to do that but it’s simple enough.

    1. Open up home.php find line 15 where it says:

    <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/slideshow.php'); ?>

    2. Now you have 2 options. You can either add the code right in home.php or put like above an include to a file in your theme to keep the code apart. I’ll assume you are just adding the code so go with that option as otherwise you just put all this in a file and link using include.

    3. You’re going to need a wrapper around it so open up slideshow and see what the wrapper was for the slideshow:

    <div class="content-box-outer"></div>

    4. So now you would want to get the embed code for your video from say youtube, vimeo or any service you are using and have the following:

    <div class="content-box-outer">

    --- embedded code goes here

    </div>

    5. Save it all and it should work for you but bare in mind the size for embed may have to adapt worst case you may need to create a center alignment div or something like that to make it all look central.

    Hope that helps.