Personal header — I’ve tried, I have!

Thanks, vkaryl — is there something else I need to do? The personalheader.jpg still doesn’t show (nor does the customized blob), although finally the title does show.

Moshu I am going to bookmark that for sure! Thanks for that too.

jean

p.s. vkaryl, one of the reasons I had hesitated to try a different theme is that I don’t know which really are clean in terms of code and stylesheet, and because I wasnt sure if they’d work on 2.0.

Not surprisingly, a few of the ones I like are also based on Kubrick and that fact alone brings up worries …

I’ve had the same friggin’problem, I just solved it. in header.php he commented out this bit of code:
/*
#headerimg { background: url(‘<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/personalheader.jpg’) no-repeat top;}
*/, all I did was copy the code and replace the original and it worked. I compared the two lines and noticed one little difference…in the original line it had this: url(“<?php, with a quote, the commented out line has this: url(‘<?php, single quote.
Also in header-img.php at the very top, I replaced kubrickheader.jpg in 2 places with personalheader.jpg, see below:

$img = ‘personalheader.jpg’;

// If we don’t have image processing support, redirect.
if ( ! function_exists(‘imagecreatefromjpeg’) )
die(header(“Location: personalheader.jpg”));
Funny thing, I was reading something about Word Press being user friendly…anyway, I hope this helps everyone!!

Thanks, Jedd. I’m happy for you. I “uncommented” the #headerimage line, and edited header_img.php per your tip. Problem is, I’ve still not been able to get my personalheader.jpg to replace kubrickheader.jpg. Did you try the vkaryl’s zip fix?

I’m not happy with how much time I have wasted trying to do something that is supposed to be simple. I took vkaryl’s advice and chose a template (Husna) other than the default so that I could finally get my own image into the header after wasting my entire morning. The code in the Husna stylesheet is MUCH simpler and not garbaged up with a bunch of misleading comments. It was a breeze changing the name of the jpg in the image folder for the new template – which only occurs once in one style sheet (thankyou). Yes – I did remember to move my image into that folder.

I used the text editor that ships with WP, and once I made the change and saved, I clicked on the <view page> link in the header of my admin app. Guess what! NOTHING IS DIFFERENT…

I have been chasing quotation marks, Kubricks, and style sheets all day and nothing I have done has worked, best I can tell. Now I have somebody else’s header art on my page (which is better than Kubrick) but for crying out loud! Why is all of this so difficult! I chose WP over MT to try to avoid just this kind of experience.

Hey!
I didn’t uncomment that bit of code, just copied the line and replaced the one in question. You’re right though, what a pain in the arse!! No I didn’t try vkaryl’s zip fix I’m not even sure what that is…but I find the best way to learn something is to jump right in…Good luck!!

I realized since my last post that I was not actually seeing the updated page after I made changes, which is why it seemed like nothing was working. I needed to go Cntl-F5 to clear the browser cache before I could see a fresh page. All better now.

jedd and rsmith9,

I don’t even see #headerimg anywhere … you mean on header.php? Not the one I have … *sigh*