Add full width slider before content

Alright, so I got this working in a sort of unconventional way. I really wish there was a cleaner way to do this so it was more future proof but it’s working and that’s what counts. :-)

Elliott said: I’m guessing your using do_shortcode() ? It would be best to just edit your pages manually and add the slider in that way.

The problem with inserting it into the body is that Enfold doesn’t (apparently/frustratingly) have any hooks for inserting stuff before the content on a page. So if I insert it manually, I have to do it (manually) on every page. Even then it won’t display above the title.

I sort of ended up using do_shortcode(). But I want my client to be able to edit the slider and the full width slider isn’t really available as a shortcode outside the layout builder. So, I created a post type called a “snippet” and built the slider inside one of those. Then I used a shortcode to insert the contents of the snippet on the “ava_after_main_container” action. The slideshow code is preceded by the following code that was breaking the layout:

</div></div></div><!-- close content main div --></div></div>

If this wasn’t there, apparently, the slider and the page would display normally. So I ended up doing this:

add_action( 'ava_after_main_container', 'pwm_after_main_container', 10, 2 );
function pwm_after_main_container(){
	if( is_super_admin() && !is_front_page() ):

		// get the contents of the snippet using my shortcode
		$output = do_shortcode( "[pwm_snippet snippet_id='299' title_tag='h3' custom_class='']" );

		// this is the stuff I need to get rid of
		$stuff = "</div></div></div><!-- close content main div --></div></div>";

		// $strip out the extra junk
		$output = str_replace( $stuff, '', $output );

		// output the results
		echo $output;
	endif;
}

Like I said, this isn’t a great solution but it seems to be working.

Please add more hooks inside/outside the opening/closing tags for major sections. :-)

Thanks!