Changing Header Image

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  diligenthorse · Member · Apr 21, 2007 at 4:07 am

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  I am operating on a Mac, and I cannot seem to upload a new header. The ‘choose file’ button is covered, as if that is where you edit your photo. How do I upload a picture with this? Anyone else have the same problem?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 21, 2007 at 4:28 am

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  Are you using a Safari browser? It has known issues.

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  skifrance · Member · Apr 21, 2007 at 11:21 am

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  Hey I am just having this exact same problem …. will switch over to Firefox and see if that helps

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 21, 2007 at 11:42 am

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  It should. Safari really, really has issues with WordPress. If you can run FF instead, it will help.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 21, 2007 at 2:38 pm

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  The one time we allow the “My browser is better than yours” around here. Safari has an issue with running the javascript program that WordPress and many other programs use.

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  diligenthorse · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 5:58 am

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  I dont have Firefox, but I have IE. I’ll try that.. I dislike using IE because, but I shall try. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before? So this isn’t a Mac thing then?

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  diligenthorse · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 6:15 am

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  I tried on IE, and although I could upload the image, I could not crop it. Therefore when I hit the crop button, and went to view my header image, it was just black.

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  roomforty · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 5:47 pm

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  so glad to see this, i’m new to word press and was not able (on safari) to change the header either. i’ll work in firefox. thank you!

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  judyb12 · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 5:50 pm

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  @inkeq:
  Don’t bother with IE on a Mac. MS quit supporting it years ago, and it’s now way out of date. Your best bet is to look around at Mozilla browsers (firefox, flock, camino) or maybe Opera.

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  roomforty · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 6:09 pm

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  have a friend tell me the secret for changing a header on safari (if you don’t want to change to firefox to resolve that one issue): put the cursor over the ‘choose file’ button (even if it looks grey like there’s a pic to edit) and hold control then click.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 6:10 pm

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  Can anyone verify that? My macs are all servers.

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  judyb12 · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 6:33 pm

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  Verified. A right-click (ctrl-click) on the Browse button opens the browse dialog in Safari. Whaddyaknow?

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  roomforty · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 8:05 pm

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  i wouldn’t lie to you judyb and mike! :-D

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  drmike · Member · Apr 25, 2007 at 8:27 pm

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  Oh agreed. Just wanted to verify.

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  thackeray · Member · Jun 2, 2007 at 7:06 am

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  I’ve got this same problem and will try the Safari solution given here, but am wondering about whether Safari is generally weak for this app.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 2, 2007 at 4:01 pm

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  It seems that Safari has issues with the form of javascript called AJAX which is in quite widespread use now and with the tiny MCE editor. I guess Safari developers need some encouragement towards addressing and resolving these issues. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/20/im-using-safari-and-i-have-problems/