I'd be most grateful if you could enable the Header Extension on hlptest.miraheze.org
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Header
What I'm hoping to achieve is to replicate the banner at the top of https://www.healthylondon.org/ on the wiki, i.e. replicate this bit at the top of every page
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y21ky5gxe41n6rc/Screenshot%202017-04-26%2011.44.52.png?dl=1
Many thanks in advance
Best, Sam
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Reception123 | T1721 Add Header Extension on hlptest.miraheze.org | ||
| Resolved | labster | T1722 Review Extension:Header |
@Tansaku this extension needs a security review. However, you can just use MediaWiki:Sitenotice to display a message across the top of every page
Thanks @Amanda - I did that, but it doesn't quite achieve the effect I want:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5h9hpdw10xibea/Screenshot%202017-04-26%2012.25.43.png?dl=1
I don't want a notice on every page - I want a completely different banner with images and links that runs from one side of the screen to the other - is that possible?
What I'm hoping to achieve is to replicate the banner at the top of https://www.healthylondon.org/ on the wiki, i.e. replicate this bit at the top of every page
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y21ky5gxe41n6rc/Screenshot%202017-04-26%2011.44.52.png?dl=1
thanks @Amanda - I'm not trying to add an advert or advertising banners - just branding for the site itself - does that make sense?
So while I've approved Extension:Header, I strongly urge you not to use it. I assume you want to add some HTML inside the <body> of the page, not before the <html> tag, right?
The correct thing to do here would be to write a small extension that does something like this:
$wgHooks['SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec'][] = 'MyExtensionHooks::onSkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec';
// And inside a class...
public static function onSkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec( &$skin, &$template ) { ... }
global $wgHeaderExtensionHTML;
// OutputPage::headElement actually creates the opening <body> tag, so this goes right after
$template->extend( 'headelement', $wgHeaderExtensionHTML );
return true;
}As this would be way easier to do than to write a whole other skin. If you need to add some CSS here, outside of using Common.css, you'd have to use a different hook (or well, preg_replace but don't do that either ?), but that's entirely optional.
CustomHeader implemented (https://github.com/Miraheze/CustomHeader), installed and enabled on wiki