Nick Diego

Outermost

Genesis Custom Headers has reached the end of its life. The plugin was built to solve a problem that will soon no longer exist. The advent of block themes utilizing the Site Editor has superseded Genesis Custom Headers. Critical support will still be provided in the support forum, but the plugin is no longer being actively developed.
Originally designed to allow the easy addition of custom images and featured images to selected posts, this plugin was greatly expanded to provide a wide range of header content options which are listed below. It is important to mention that this plugin does not add headers to every page of your site like some other plugins in the WordPress plugin repository. Genesis Custom Headers allows you to add customized headers to pages, posts, and public custom post types.
Also, this plugin purposefully includes minimal styling so that custom headers can adapt to your site. Therefore, custom CSS will occasionally need to be added to achieve the precise aesthetic you are looking for. Custom CSS can be added directly from the plugin Settings Page. If you have questions or would like to request additional features, let me know in the plugin support forum.
This plugin is only for Genesis Framework users. Genesis is a premium product of <a href="http://www.studiopress.com" rel="nofollow ugc">StudioPress</a>, which has no affiliation with Genesis Custom Headers.
<h4>Header content options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display the featured image</li>
<li>Display a custom image</li>
<li>Display slideshows using shortcodes or directly using one of the natively supported slider plugins</li>
<li>Display custom content (Using the WordPress tinymce editor)</li>
<li>Display iframes, or raw HTML content (Great for Google maps) </li>
<li>Run page/post specific scripts </li>
<li>Set a global header position or page/post specific header positions using Genesis hooks</li>
<li>Enable custom headers on any public custom post type</li>
</ul>
<h4>Natively supported slider plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://soliloquywp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Soliloquy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codecanyon.net/item/slider-revolution-responsive-wordpress-plugin/2751380" rel="nofollow ugc">Revolution Slider</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.metaslider.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Meta Slider</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codecanyon.net/item/slider-pro-wordpress-premium-slider-plugin/253501" rel="nofollow ugc">Slider Pro</a></li>
</ul>
Disclaimer: 
Genesis Custom Headers does not actually include copies of the slider plugins listed above, or any slider plugin for that matter. It just supports these plugins if you already have one of them installed on your website.

Genesis Custom Headers

Add custom headers to each page, post, or custom post type. Header options include: featured image, custom image, slideshows, HTML, scripts, and more.

Konstantin Obenland

This plugin lets you specify a header image for each post, page, custom post type or archive page individually, from your default headers and custom headers.
It adds a meta box in the post edit screens with the header selection and a settings field in the edit profile and each taxonomy edit screen. 
If no specific header is specified for a post it will fall back to the default selection. 
There is no change of template files necessary as this plugin hooks in the existing WordPress API to unfold its magic.
Thanks to Erik T. for the idea to this plugin!

WP Display Header

This plugin is not compatible with WP version 4.8.1.

Not compatible

Select a specific header or random header image for each content item or archive page.

Genesis Custom Headers vs WP Display Header