Deleting or hiding the header on my static page.

You’d need to copy Twenty Ten’s header.php file over into your child theme, then edit it. Try replacing:

// Check if this is a post or page, if it has a thumbnail, and if it's a big one
if ( is_singular() &&
		has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) &&
		( /* $src, $width, $height */ $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'post-thumbnail' ) ) &&
		$image[1] >= HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH ) :
	// Houston, we have a new header image!
	echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'post-thumbnail' );
else : ?>
	<img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>" height="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>" alt="" />
<?php endif; ?>

with:

// Check if this is a post or page, if it has a thumbnail, and if it's a big one
if ( is_single() &&
		has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) &&
		( /* $src, $width, $height */ $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'post-thumbnail' ) ) &&
		$image[1] >= HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH ) :
	// Houston, we have a new header image!
	echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'post-thumbnail' );
elseif (!is_page() ) : ?>
	<img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>" height="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>" alt="" />
<?php endif; ?>

Thanks fot the quick response. I’ll try it – looks complicated, but after what I’ve been through so far, I’ll plung ahead.

Looking at the code you gave me, it looks like this kills the header image. Does it eliminate all of the header and resore the space?

How do you people learn all this?

It only kills the header image on static pages (!is_page).

How do you people learn all this?

Lots of practice and masses of past mistakes. ??

I just looked at the header php (copy below) and don’t see the section of code you mentioned that I can modify. I really hat to be so dumb about things, but can you help some more? I really want to kill the whole header.

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The original code I gave above was taken straight from the current version of Twenty Ten.