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For example. I’m using Ivory Search in a site, and it allows you to make search engines for specific areas of the site. The issue is that it uses the default search results page for every search engine, and I need a custom header for each search results.

So I wrote to the most excellent Kadence support and they sent me a code snippet which helped. I adjusted it, so let’s walk through it.

Something important to note is that the search results page with Ivory includes the ID of the search engine, so we know which one we’re dealing with on the results page. Additionally, Kadence knows the name of any custom header on the site. So if we know both those things we should be able to set the one we want. Fortunately Kadence is clever enough to have a hook for that.

So here’s the code, and then we’ll walk through it.

add_filter('kadence_conditional_header_display', 'change_search_header', 99, 2); 

function change_search_header( $show, $header ) {
    
    if ( empty( $_GET['id'] ) || ! is_numeric( $_GET['id'] ) || ! is_search() ) {
        return $show;
    } else {
        $get = $_GET['id']; 
    }

    $search = array(
        '11241' => 'Devotional',
        '12189' => 'CBH',
        '12195' => 'DGL',
        '12247' => 'Red Rock',
    );

    if ( $search[ $get ] === $header['label'] ) { 
        $show = true;
    } 
return $show; 
}

So let’s walk through the code.

We make a function, and it takes the output and the the name of the header. Then the first thing we do is validate the get variable of the search form. We check to see if it’s empty, then see if it’s a number, and then (this is important) make sure we’re on the Search results page.

If it fails these tests, we return the default value that was passed in as $show.

Then I have an array where the ID numbers of the search forms are keys, and the names of headers are the values.

Here’s where we get the Ivory search IDs.

And here’s where we get the names of the headers:

Then, if the name of the header matches the name tied to the search ID in our array, we set $show to true, and that prints the proper header.

Then we use add_filter function to run this function on every page.

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Recently we had a brain storming session and decided to make some more videos, but make them much shorter and see if they did better. The first several were standard scale, and not “shorts”. It’s been a month and a half and one of them has more than 100 views, most are around 30 or so.

Then we researched what a “short” actually is. As it turns out it’s not simply a short video (less than 60 seconds). Additionally from a dimension standpoint, it has to be narrower vertically than horizontally. From a practical standpoint they want videos shot in portrait on a cell phone. So we decided to make some and see how it went.

All things considered, shorts get much more traffic than regular videos. Most of them in the last two weeks have more traffic than all of the ones that are 6 weeks old.

Now, we’re talking about views in the hundreds here, we haven’t given it enough time to see if these really get big. But as an MVP test, shorts seem to be performing much much better than traditional videos.

They’re also cheaper to make, and can be made much more quickly.

An additional benefit of making them this way is that the interface is mobile, even though I’m actually on the desktop.

Here’s an example:

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Once that was done, we made the final draft of the video and sent it off to YouTube!

If you like what you see and you’d like something similar for your product or project, drop us a note!

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