[Theme: Yoko] Migrate header images in child theme?

  • jolon

    (@jolon)


    11 years, 12 months ago

    Hi there. Love your work.

    Question, I uploaded a ton of header images before installing a child theme. When I activate the child theme, none of the images have the ‘Header’ designation in the media library and don’t show up as headers.

    Is there a way to designate my already uploaded header images, or do I need to actually delete from the media library and re-upload in the child theme?

    Thanks so much.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/yoko/

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    11 years, 12 months ago

    try placing them in YOUR THEME’S images folder as follows:

    /wp-content/themes/YOUR THEME/images/headers/

    hope it works

    Digital Raindrops

    (@adeptris)

    11 years, 12 months ago

    Not from the Admin Options, you would have to re-upload them.

    How the Headers Work:
    Header images are theme specific which in general terms works well as different themes have different header sizes.

    The header images when uploaded create an entry in the database ‘wp-posts’ table and get a unique post_ID, my header has the post_ID of 95

    Then in the ‘wp-postmeta’ table five entries are then created:

    _wp_attached_file
_wp_attachment_context
_wp_attachment_metadata
_wp_attachment_is_custom_header

    The last one ‘_wp_attachment_is_custom_header’ has the theme name {slug} and is used to filter the headers.

    _wp_attachment_is_custom_header = twentyeleven-childtheme

    In theory if you have the database skills you could find the entries and edit the values.
    changing just the entries:
    _wp_attachment_is_custom_header : yoko
    to:
    _wp_attachment_is_custom_header : yoko-child

    If not then just upload the images again and they will be available for both the parent and child themes.

    The next version of WordPress will have support to assign headers from the media library.

    Maybe someone will create a little plugin!

    HTH

    David

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