Uploading My Header Image:

There are literally thousands of WordPress themes – which means that many people won’t be familiar with your particular theme. So a link to your site where people can see the theme might result in more responses.

Sorry Esmi, should’ve included https://www.acornbbs.com .

I built the sitevcontent and visuals on theme 2011, but I’m experimenting with other themes, as I’m not sold on 2011.

You would need to upload an image of the right size to wp-content/themes/panorama/header_images using FTP (or whatever file management application your host provides).

Esmi:

I don’t know where to find such a file wp-content/themes/panorama/header_images .

I will contact my host, but based upon past Q&As, I don’t hold out for them to be much help to me. I feel pretty much on my own here!

You need to learn how to use using FTP or the file management that your host provides. It’s a very basic skill that you need if you want to run a web site.

Where is your website hosted at? You need to login to your account on whatever site your web hosting is on and then you need to go to your file managing area and find where you upload the wordpress stuff in the first place.

There should be a directory or folder named wp-content in that area which you should click on, then you need to click on the folders folder, then the panorama folder, then the header_images folder.

Then you can use the upload button on your web hosting account area and upload the header you want. If you want, you can send me your login stuff and I will do this for you. If you don’t want to do that you can login to your account that hosts your website and then take a screenshot of what it looks like so I can tell you exactly what to click on.

MJ14;

Many thanks for your very helpful comments. I’ll do exactly what you say. Hopefully my web-hosting group can direct me if I get lost! Cheers, ‘Cane.

Well now…that wasn’t too difficult. I eventually got into the Hosting OS and the File Manager (Brave New World!) and have been able to upload my image. So that part has finished.

However…my next challenge is to make my image fit. Because the Header Bar on Panorama is long and narrow…the central focus of my image is outside of the Header Bar.

Don’t know if you have any quick fixes for that?

style.css. Change:

#headerimage {
    height: 120px;
}

to:

#headerimage {
    height: 433px;
}

E: I’ll give it a shot!

Esmi: WOW!!! THat didn’t go so well. I made the alteration and on returning to my site, the hedaer bar had gone solid green and when I returned to the dashboard, I notice that my custom image is no longer showing, whcih means that whatever I did, resulted in the removal of my custom image. So…I’m back to the default image. What gives?

Esmi: when I eturn to style.css, I notice that it’sthe original value that there i.e. 120px, whcih means that it didn’t hold its save! Strange!

You must have inadvertently removed more from style.css than you should have.

Well I just looked at the website and it doesn’t show the new banner for me? If you add the new banner up so I can see it, I’m sure myself and/or esmi will be able to help you!

Esmi: I don’t think so! It simply reverted to default i.e. 120px

See here:
#header{
height: 100px;
padding: 0 0 0 20px;
margin: 0;
}

#container{
padding: 0 21px 0 20px;
}

#headerimage{
height:120px;

This was the ONLY area I was working in on the sheet.

Perhaps…it can’t be expanded because of the narrow width coupled by the width?

‘Cane.