Chateau needs a flexible header…
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Different themes have different great features, but what is quite sad at wordpress.com is that many features are not converted to all themes, there are so many irregularities and especially important features don’t make it to all themes… My recent example is the Chateau theme, it’s a beautiful theme but why does this theme still has no flexible header feature? It would be such a great theme, if the user wouldn’t be forced to use a huge header image.
I found one older forum post…
Staff designsimply said in 2012:
Flexible headers is a new feature coming out soon in WordPress, and we’ll be converting any theme that it makes sense for to use that feature but Chateau isn’t converted yet.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/chateau-header-image-size?replies=4
Why is this feature not available for this theme?
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This is not an answer to your question. Themes Staff will respond to it. To see which themes support flexible headers you can use the flexible header filter in the Theme Showcase. https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/flexible-header/ To locate only free themes with this feature use this link https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/flexible-header/?sort=free and I do see Chateau included there.
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I created a minimalist 960 by 115 pixel white template header (for further design)… I uploades this one on my test blog to the Chateau header and it is forcing me to crop the width more than in half to round about 400 by 115 pixel or so…
I am happy that I just created a white test template in 960 x 115… if I would have designed the header, it would have been all for nothing :D
What I found out, Chateau has a flexible header to a degree… but only if you upload an image of any big size, then you can basically crop with no limitations. What that means, in Photoshop I would need to create a file in default Chateau header size… 960 x 260 pixel, and then I would need to create a guideline at 115 pixels and design the header…. when I would upload it then, I would most likely be able to crop the 260 pixel to 115 pixel at my guideline. What this means, it’s incredible inconvenient and not really flexible with this theme :D I hope this would be fixed.
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Hi @diaryofdennis, actually it does have a flexible header, and you should also be able to crop it to the dimensions you like. If you’re having trouble, please reply with more details or contact us here so we can help you troubleshoot:
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and you should also be able to crop it to the dimensions you like.
Ok another try, because it seems you didn’t understand my post. Please take this as feedback for improvement…
I am not talking about cropping any photo, I am talking about designing a header in a certain dimension and uploading the image to the theme header. It’s not possible to upload an 960 x 115 image, because the theme wants you to crop the width in half.
The flexible header does force you to crop an image that was uploaded in the dimension you want. It’s not possible to upload an image in a size other than the default size without being forced to crop the width in half, unless you upload the image in the themes default dimensions. This should be improved.
However, here is the workaround…
1. Design your image in preferred dimension (in my case 960 x 115)
2. Create a file with black background in the themes header dimension (Chateau 960 x 260)
3. Copy the preferred file into the file with the themes header dimension, snap and align it on top.
4. Upload to blog and crop the black background out.Do you see how much more worksteps are involved? If this feature would accept images with different height than the themes default header height dimension, it would be less work.
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I tested that and had different results. Just to verify, which site are you working on? You mentioned it’s a test site.
If you don’t mind, could I try to upload the header? Since it’s here I have access and just need permission, as well as the url of the site and URL of the intended images.
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The test blog is a private blog called sandboxview. It’s basically one old copy of one of my blogs… it’s private because otherwise I would have a blog with lots of duplicated content. It’s private for test reasons.
The test image is located at https://sandboxview.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/bloglogo.jpg.
I am not sure if you can access a private blog, if you can, then you are allowed to check it out, yes. I tried again, the theme wants be to cut the 960 px width more than in half if I select the 960 x 115px image.
But as said, I found a workaround, but it would be still interesting why your results are different.
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To add something, please keep the blog setting of the test blog private, otherwise it would hurt my original blog in Google.
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Hmm, interesting. I wasn’t able to duplicate this with the images I tried, but with yours, surely enough, the cropper didn’t work as planned. It may be because the image is shorter than the minimum recommended height, and the cropper tries to stick with the aspect ratio it expects. I’ll file a bug on that.
You can definitely click “Skip Cropping” though … does that work for you?
I was thinking you meant flexible header as in responsiveness, which does work.
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You can definitely click “Skip Cropping” though … does that work for you?
Yes! I am so blind… thank you :D I didn’t even notice “Skip Cropping”… oh my… How couldn’t I notice the button. Thank you that works perfectly!
It may be because the image is shorter than the minimum recommended height, and the cropper tries to stick with the aspect ratio it expects. I’ll file a bug on that.
Although you helped me with pointing me to the “Skip Cropping”, I do think too that a bug report makes still sense, as it would be much better if there wouldn’t be cropping limitations.
Anyway, my problem is solved for now. Thank you so much!
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You bet. I don’t know whether this one will be fixed soon since the Skip Cropping option is available, but I’ll file it anyway.
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Just to follow up on this, here’s what I found:
– You can skip cropping if the theme would still work alright with the shorter image. In your case, it does, so the skip cropping option is available.
– You won’t be able to skip cropping if the image requires a certain height or width, so in a case like that, you would just need to upload a larger image, or let the cropper “scale up” what you’ve got.
I hope that helps! Props to Lance for helping me sort this out. :)
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Thank you supernovia for further informations. That helps to understand how the cropping works for different themes :)
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