Mandigo – Having different header images on different pages

Until a couple days ago, this was a pain in the ass. Now thanks to a collaboration between Dirk and myself, it’s easy as pie.

Download and install this plugin

Once it’s installed you can specify a style for each individual page that will over-ride the style in the stylesheet. I’m not familiar with the template your using, but it probably has div containing the image you want to change. Let’s say it’s called “#header”.

Go to the page you want to edit in the wp admin and in the “custom tag” field, enter something like this:

<style type=”text/css” media=”Screen”>#header { background-image: url(my_image.jpg); }</style>

That’ll do it.

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!

The plug-in link seems to go to this page, though….

https://wp.uberdose.com/search/wp-content/

…and clicking on “Another WordPress Meta Plugin 1.92” just takes me back to the first page, and round and round and round. Am I missing something?
thanks ~ mb

Yep, you’re missing something ??

Right click the “.phps” link under “downloads” on the following page and save it

https://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/23/another-wordpress-meta-plugin-192/

hmmm….i wonder if we’re somehow talking about different things.

When I right click on that link, I get an html file on my desktop called “wp-content.html”. Double-clicking on it launches a page identical to the one at the URL I mentioned above. Surely, that’s not right…

I’m on a Mac, but that shouldn’t make any difference, right?
thx ~ mb

go to the page linked in the post before this, and under ‘downloads’, it says .phps (Use Save As and rename to .php). Option-click on the .phps or hold the left mouse-button or whatever it is that you do with a mac :), and click “save link as…”.

Does that work? If not I could email it to you.

Thanks for the help, nakedape.

No, I know how to “save as”; the issue is that what I am saving doesn’t seem to be what tactics says it should be. No matter what I save it as, what I get is an html file. Am I supposed to upload an html file called “.php” to my plug-ins folder?
I’m so confused….

No, when I save it, I get a file called another_wordpress_meta_plugin.phps, which, as instructed, must be renamed to *.php and then uploaded.

But, I tried this in ie7 and in opera9, and when using these browsers I get the same problem that you are experiencing.

Works fine through firefox. Download it here: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Or else, link me your blog and I’ll post the content of the .phps file as a comment, which you can then copy and paste into a new php document and name accordingly.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I consolidated several sites into one yesterday. Is everything working now?

Aha!
Yes, that worked fine for me in Firefox, thanks for the tip.

Now I can’t get the plug-in to show up in the wp admin, but that’s probably an issue for the author…

thanks for your help with the file!
~ mb

You’re welcome, glad I could help.. Good luck with your site!
(Doesn’t appear in the plugins page of wp-admin for me either)

Kaboomer, you copied the .php into your wordpress installation under wp-content/plugins?

I can’t speak for Kaboomer, but that’s what I did, and it didn’t appear in my plugins page, whereas other plugins have in the past.

I split the header insertion plugin into a plugin of its own:

Add Your Own Headers 0.1

Please give me feedback!

Hi uberdose:

The Add Your Own Headers 0.1 plug installed just fine – thanks!
Now what to do with it :)….

So I’m in the Write Page admin panel for the page I want to give the new header to. Below the Page Content box, there are now two fields called “Custom Header” and “Another Custom Header”.

I tried entering the name of my new header image in those fields, but that didn’t work.

Then I tried entering the code that tactics mentioned earlier in this thread:

<style type=”text/css” media=”Screen”>#header { background-image: url(my_image.jpg); }</style>

That didn’t work either….what should I be putting in my new fields?

Thanks

OK, the code I posted was just a sample. It needs to be edited to fit your particular template.

“#header” needs to be changed to whatever the name of the div is in your particular template that contains the background image you want to change.

“my_image.jpg” needs to be changed to the url of the image you want to appear in that div.

If this is completely greek to you, then it’s a bit beyond the level of support any of us can provide in a forum. Do a Google search for “CSS tutorials”