Step by step: replacing default headers in Atahualpa theme

All righty then. At first I had all kinds of trouble with this. A lot of the WP default settings are set against you and you have to do some fiddling to get it to work. I eventually figured it out, so I’m going to post what I did step by step in case it helps anyone else.

To replace the default header in Atahualpa with your own images:

1. Save the header images as you wish to use as .jpg’s without any spaces or punctuation.

2. Click on the “settings” tab on your blog’s dashboard.

3. Click on the “miscellaneous” tab. This is where you tell WP how to store your uploads.

4. In the “store uploads in this folder” bar, replace “wp-content/uploads” with “wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/header”.

5. Unclick the box next to “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”

6. Save changes.

7. Upload images.

8. Log into your web-hosting account or your hosting accounts webftb site .

9. Delete default images as well any extraneous image files created by the upload (my header images were 1300×150 px, but the upload created sizes like 150×150 px and a couple of others too).

10. Reward yourself with beer.

The problems that I had were caused by the following:

1. The default wordpress upload destination is not where Atahualpa needs the headers to be stored.

2. The default wordpress upload destination adds a date to the url, which changes the destination url, so it’s not routed to the header storage url.

3. My hosting site is part of the household ISP package. Another member of the household is in charge of Teh Intertubes, and was therefore the only registered user for the account. This meant that while I could see the various content files, I couldn’t get at the ftp site or the main hosting site in order to delete the defaults. I needed to be registered as a user in order to delete what I needed to.

Hope this helps. Good luck!