You mean the header image? In the header.php of the theme it says:
/* To ease the insertion of a personal header image, I have done it in such a way, that you simply drop in an image called 'personalheader.jpg' into your /images/ directory. Dimensions should be at least 760px x 200px. Anything above that will get cropped off of the image. */
/* #headerimg { background: url('<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/personalheader.jpg') no-repeat top;} */
All you have to do – after “dropping in your image – to uncomment the last line, i.e. remove the /*…*/ around it.
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Thanks, Moshu,
yeh, sounds simple enough, right? I’ve done this twice in the past 24hrs (I’ll try it again) without my personalheader.jpg being revealed. (After chmod 666, I’m using the WP text editor and hitting ‘View Site’. The code is edited, but no change to the header graphic.)
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clear your browsers cache in the tools menu
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xmiinc
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DOH! Not ‘wp-images’, but ‘wp-content/themes/default/images’
Criminy! How could I miss not seeing the default images I was looking to replace??
sorry all.
Can I jump in? I’ve followed the steps outlined above and I still don’t see my image? Do I need to alter the path to ‘personalheader.jpg’ in ‘header.php’ ?
If you put the image in your wp-content/themes/default/images, you shouldn’t have to alter any paths You should just remove the comments the (/*, */) From the header.php file that moshu quoted above.
OK, I may have caused this – I am using a theme I downloaded, not the ‘default’ theme. This is likely why I can’t see the image. Next: in the theme I downloaded, I do not see a place where i can insert my image. Here’s the header.php data:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” />
<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” /> <!– leave this for stats –>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss_url’); ?>” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘atom_url’); ?>” />
<link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&format=link’); ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
Since my current header displays my site name and “just another wordpress blog”, which I want to edit out, I want to replace everything in my current header with the image I created. Any ideas?
jeffjeff .It looks like your theme is constructed differently. The header image might be set up as a background in the CSS. You wont see it in the template at all. The default is erm *unique* in this respect. The title and tagline can be edited in admin, deleted entirely in the template; or text indented off to somewhere west of Arkansas.so it cant be seen by human eye. 🙂
miklb – My URL is: http://www.alittlemoretotheright.com/blog . This page is in beginning stages.
Root – so are you saying I will or won’t be able to edit in my image? Sorry, I’m learning WP but am an old-school GM blogger.
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Jeff, do you have Adobe Photoshop?
No I don’t have Photoshop…
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Hm, never mind then. (If you did, you could have used the old Kubrick template and simply inserted your own header image. That’s what I did. Unfortunately, I have no experience with personalheader.jpg.)
Yeah, jeff, the template you’ve chosen isn’t designed for a header image. I’m a tad novice at the CSS, so forgive me, but it appears that the way it’s set up, it would be difficult to put one in.
You may want to look through the themes for a 3 column template that does have a header image, and build around that, rather than try and stick one on top of this one. That would be my suggestion.
macmanx,
no need for complicated solutions 🙂 “personalheader” is from Kubrick (header.php)
/* To ease the insertion of a personal header image, I have done it in such a way,
that you simply drop in an image called 'personalheader.jpg' into your /images/
directory. Dimensions should be at least 760px x 200px. Anything above that will
get cropped off of the image. */
/*
#headerimg { background: url('<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/personalheader.jpg') no-repeat top;}
*/
