Replacing Meta Slider with Another Slider in Vantage

Hi Jake

Say for example you wanted to insert LayerSlider in the exact same place as MetaSlider on the home page, this is what you’d do. Firstly create a child theme for Vantage, your child theme’s style.css should look something like this:

/*
 Theme Name:     Vantage Child
 Author:         SiteOrigin
 Template:       vantage
 Version:        1.0.0
*/

@import url("../vantage/style.css");

Now in your child theme place a copy of the current header.php file. Then open that file and insert your slider call between these two lines:

<?php do_action( 'vantage_after_masthead' ); ?>

<?php do_action( 'vantage_before_main_container' ); ?>

So in my case my final result looked like this:

<?php do_action( 'vantage_after_masthead' ); ?>

	<?php if(is_front_page()) layerslider(1); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'vantage_before_main_container' ); ?>

You’ll see I have a little PHP in there to restrict my LayerSlider to only the home page.

When you enable your child theme you will need to re-do your Customizer settings. My advice to make this as smooth as possible is to have your current Customizer screen open in one tab, and your new Customizer in another, then just go section by section, copying your settings across.

Hope that helps.

Here is a child theme to match this thread:

https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/vantage-child.zip

No problem.

In that case try replacing my:

<?php if(is_front_page()) layerslider(1); ?>

with

<?php if(is_front_page()) echo do_shortcode( '[tile-template id="109"]' ) ?>