Posted 8 years ago #
I would like to be able to rotate the kubrickheader from a bank of photographs with each refresh. This is outside the relm of WordPress program, it would have to be an add on or plug-in. Any ideas on how to go about this?
Sounds like a neat idea for http://metaltiger.org
Thanks for the suggestions.
Posted 8 years ago #
Uhh, I think Matt's Random Image Script is more what MetalTiger had in mind.
Posted 8 years ago #
I just did it. See it at http://www.mcdevzone.com/
I have a series of images kubrickheader0.jpg - kubrickheader7.jpg in my images directory and I added the following script to header.php:
<?php
function header_graphic() {
echo "/images/";
$num=rand(0,7);
echo "kubrickheader".$num.".jpg";
};
?>
Finally, I changed the stylesheet header element as follows:
#header { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); header_graphic(); ?>") no-repeat bottom center; }
Posted 8 years ago #
Mike, your solution looks easy. Famous last words... :-)
Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. I cut and past the php function and put it at the very top of my header.php file (the one in the themes/default directory).
I then replaced the uncommented line that starts with #header in the same header.php file with the header element shown.
I placed 9 images named kubrickheader0.jpg through kubrickheader9.jpg in the themes/default/images directory.
Now, my header is just a blue box and the footer is a gray box. I didn't think I did anything to the footer.
What did I do wrong?
Posted 8 years ago #
Thank you all so much. This gives me something to work on. Thank you again.
Posted 8 years ago #
Thank you, Mike! With your help, I was able to get it working. Turns out, I was putting the php function at the very top of the header.php file, when it should go after the DOCTYPE and html lines and before the head line.
I documented it in more detail in this article.
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