• cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)


    Hi, I have been using WordPress for a couple of months now. I used to do my HTML strictly in Notepad and then one day I had to help a friend out with a WordPress site and realized how simple it is to use that my thoughts of it being “cheating” quickly turned into “why have I been so arrogant all along?” lol…

    Anyway, I am running across a problem here that I can’t figure out because in my HTML prime, I never really messed with style.css sheets.

    I tried finding a solution first and came across this forum post, but that didn’t help (I’m thinking it’s because the #logo and other minor details, mostly because that gentleman’s stylesheet is different from mine. I have a variety of images I have made for the header at the top of the site and I would like to rotate them.

    I will post my style.css and header.php code and if someone could please tell me what to do, that would be amazing. If I am forgetting any details or you have any questions, please let me know!

    EDIT: The forums said the code was too long and to use pastebin.com, so the code is at the below links.

    style.css: http://pastebin.com/aZnmB1Dj
    header.php: http://pastebin.com/8sUbjg21

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  • Thread Starter cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)

    Thank anyone and everyone in advance for even trying to help!

    hans2504

    (@hans2504)

    There’s no need for you to post your entire header.php and style.css files. Nobody is going to read 700+ lines of code to try to solve this problem, but we can help without it 🙂

    When you say ” I have a variety of images I have made for the header at the top of the site and I would like to rotate them.” do you mean that you want them to change every so often while looking at the page or do you want to display a different image on each page load? (both are possible, the latter is easier)

    Thread Starter cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)

    I’ve seen people post their whole code plenty of times when I’ve looked up help here and so I was just trying to be proactive, sorry. I was also doing it because the link to the solution I found seemed like it should work, but didn’t, and it may be because person that posted that forum thread had a #logo and didn’t have #header-wrapper, etc.

    But anyway, I want it to load a different image on each page load. I don’t want to run Flash or Java as I want the site to be simple, and it would require those or some other stuff to have them refresh based on an amount of time. Plus, I think that gets too flashy, lol.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Thread Starter cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)

    esmi, I downloaded it and set it up, just changed the permissions and am looking at the settings, it is a rotation based on time. Is there a way to make it so it just changes the image based on page load?

    hans2504

    (@hans2504)

    If you’re using a theme based on twentyeleven or twentyten you can upload your header images to /wp-content/themes/<your theme>/images/headers then log into wp-admin and go to Appearance > Headers select “Random” and save changes. It should load up all your headers and randomly select one at page load.

    Thread Starter cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)

    esmi, I just finished setting it up and am looking at it, and I didn’t really want it to be rotating, but I could settle for that, at least for now…but my problem is (if you go to the web site you can see (http://gaming.annextechsolutions.com/)) the image doesn’t go where I want it to, and I don’t know how to fix it and whether it needs to be fixed in the style.css or header.php — could you please look at the site and see how its appearing and then maybe briefly look at the coding at http://pastebin.com/aZnmB1Dj (style.css) and http://pastebin.com/8sUbjg21 (header.php) and maybe give me an idea if you have one? Thanks, soooo much!

    hans2504

    (@hans2504)

    I just looked at your code (good thing you posted it afterall :p ). For my suggestion to work, you’ll need to use <?php header_image(); ?> as the source of your image tag like this:

    <img src=”<?php header_image(); ?>”>

    Thread Starter cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)

    hans, I guess I’m not, because when I go to Appearances, I don’t see a Headers tab 🙁

    Thread Starter cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)

    You mean in the stylesheet?

    Thread Starter cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)

    I can’t figure this out and the Cimy Header Image Rotator is cool, but it’s not exactly what I wanted (I prefer to have the image change per page load) but most importantly I can’t relocate it. I can’t figure out why I can’t get this stuff to go where I want it to.

    Probably because the header is set as a background and the code around it therefore is set for it as a background too? Maybe then when I keep trying to put the HTML in the place of the header’s current area it’s not working because it’s not technically currently a header, but a background image?

    [ Be patient and don’t bump. That’s not permitted here. ]

    Thread Starter cpetrounov

    (@cpetrounov)

    I’ve definitely exhausted that plugin esmi. It only concluded by confusing me even more. Still can’t figure out why nothing seems to work.

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