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I’m using twentyfourteen (for the first time). Developing on a Windows box. Hosting is Godaddy Linux. It’ a new effort so no plugins that should relate to the header. I do have a child theme set up wherein I changed the max width of the header section from 1260 to 1440 although that is still a problem because the extended header length doesn’t stop twentyfourteen from cropping the image to 1260. But that’s another problem. Right now I just want to be able to select a different header image for certain pages.

Duh, I answered my own question. Full width vs Default Template solved the problem.

Firebug is how I found the problem. Originally I had a thick whit line down the right side of the screen when I looked at it on my laptop (1440×900).

I got around that by changing the child style.css ad adjusting .site max-width to 1440 and ,header max-width to 1440.

That took care of everything except the header image was still about an inch short of the right side of the screen so I resized the image to 1440×240 and uploaded it.

The problem I have now is that when I upload the new header image it ONLY gives me the option to crop and publish which shortens the imaged back down to a width of 1260px before using it. I need it to use the full length of the image to fill the screen.

I can make the change in firebug and it corrects it on the screen but of course only as long as I’m still looking at it. I’m trying to figure out how to make wordpress use the original image I uploaded instead of it’s own “cropped” version.

I am working in a child theme. I’ll try a custom css plugin an see if that helps.

Maybe I’d get more response if you can see what I mean. The site is https://www.silentserenitytest.com and it seems fine until I look at it with the resolution set at 1440px

Oops, never mind I figured it out. First, I forgot to activate the child theme after I created it, second, I also had to change the max-header width from 1260 to 1440 as well. That seemed to take care of that problem.

Thanks for the help.

That sounded good but I tried it by creating a child theme and adding the empty style.css to it then added the change you recommended. No dice. I tried clearing the browser cache and reloading and it still didn’t come up right. Finally I made the change from 1260 to 1440 in the style.css in the parent theme’s home and it still doesn’t change the original problem. Any thoughts?

That works nicely although it took away the lost password link too. I was hoping to save that but I can live without it if I must. Any easy way to keep “Lost Password” but still eliminate “Register?”

Okay, does that go in the theme-my-login.css in the plugin folder or in the theme’s css. I’m using twenty-eleven btw. I tried throwing it in at the end of the theme-my-login.css but it didn’t seem to have an impact.

I tried it in the live environment last night and it worked nicely. I do recall reading about the cUrl module but for the moment it’s good. I close this as resolved. I’m sure more questions will come up as it progresses.

That was exactly what I was looking for. I just couldn’t think of the right name. Thank you.

That helps. Thanks Lisa.

Oh, and following up… If I take them to the levels screen from the Members area menu item then they are going to go to that same screen every time whether they are already a member or not.

OKay, I get that you want me to pay for a membership to the plugin site which I’ll happily do once I have it working. I find the instructions lacking a bit.

When the user clicks on “Member’s Area” for the first time, what screen do I present him with? Member Levels (which I find annoying because there is only one level) or member accounts?

I have the Theme My Login and another plugin that restricts the dashboard to admin only. But I’m still not sure which screen to present to the user on his first visit to the member’s area… and in playing with it, it seems that returning users get the full registration screen again with a tiny link telling the “Already a member? Login” I can change the code later to eliminated the unwanted stuff in the registration but my immediate concern is which screen to take them to first.

I assume it’s the “Levels” screen which I find annoying because there is only one level…but I’ll use it if I’m stuck with it.

Thank you so much for the reply. It gives me a great place to start. I’m sure I’ll have more questions as I get into it so I’d like to leave the thread open for a bit. I was hoping to use something like Contact Form 7 to build the user input form for collection data. Is that viable or do I need to go with straight html?

Ultimately the “submit” (which will need to be a paypal “pay” button) will just validate the data, create the xml variable and then send it with something like “https://OtherUrl.cfm?xml”. That send to the OtherUrl.cfm will be in the background with the user simply receiving a new screen saying that the search has been processed and the results will be emailed to his or her address. (Or an error message if the send or response is unsuccessful).

By the way, the WP site will collect the search parameters while the user is logged in to my site with his email and password so I can receive the paypal payment directly… The xml message I am sending will have my username and password as a constant which will allow my source to bill me. The only thing that will vary in the xml message are the search parameters.