Custom Header Image Issue
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I am trying to set my custom header for my new blog, onwhisperingwings.wordpress.com. I am using the free Independent Publisher theme and have uploaded an image of a butterfly sitting on some rocks. I cropped the image and saved the changes, but when so preview it, nothing has changed. I have also tried just changing the image to one of the suggested images, to see if it was an issue with my photo. Still no change. I am using the mobile app to set this up, as I am currently also in the process of moving and have no computer/internet access. Just want this one simple change before so start posting.
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Hi,
I am using the free Independent Publisher theme and have uploaded an image of a butterfly sitting on some rocks. I cropped the image and saved the changes, but when so preview it, nothing has changed.
The image you describe appears at the top of the blog page, https://onwhisperingwings.wordpress.com/blog/. Is it a custom header, or a featured image?
The static front page evidently displays a featured image. You may remove that featured image, replacing it with an image of your choice if desired. If you remove the featured image on the static front page, and do not add another featured image, then a custom header will appear if one has been applied. If not, I believe you’d see no header image.
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Hello,
The default header image is set in your Customizer in the Header Image section.
Unless something other than your default header image is selected in individual pages/posts (as a featured image), the default header image will be used across all of them.
So the first thing to check is that your default image is selected in the Header Image section of your Customizer and a thumbnail of that image appears under the ‘Current header’ title.
Then go to your pages/posts and see if another image is specified. If it is, this will overwrite the default image. To remove it using the iOS mobile app, click ‘edit’ on the page/post you wish to change, click on the cog icon (at the top) > Featured Image > Remove and update.
Let me know how you get on.
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@ onwhisperingwings,
You’re welcome. Which theme are you using? I thought it was the Goran theme at first, because of the images, but there are noticeable differences (menu type and title font, for example) in design between your site and my test sites with Goran applied. Do you have Custom Design?
I notice that there are still some issues that will need to be addressed on your site. For example:
1. Both the “Home” page and the “Blog” page were created because you originally chose to use a static page on the front page. These pages are no longer needed once you’ve switched to displaying your posts page on the front page, as you have. Your blog page (posts page) is now https://onwhisperingwings.wordpress.com/.
WordPress.com confusingly creates default sites with different features included depending upon whether you choose to display a “welcome page” or posts on the front page when you creating the site. If you then switch to the other option after creating the site, you’re left with a couple of useless pages with default featured images in one case, and left with omitted pages in the other case.
No default featured images are created if you choose the posts page on the front page option during the site set up process (at least when the Goran theme is chosen). These are only created if you choose the static front page option. Yet, if you choose the latter and then switch to the former, the featured images remain.
2. Your default static page titled “Home” was trashed. However, the link to it in the menu is still present. Clicking it results in a “page not found” error message.
3. The “Blog” page would ordinarily have been used to display the posts (or blog) page on a site with a static front page. It is now just a static page, with a featured image and the now inaccurate message:
This is the page where users will find your site’s blog
4. Your menu link with the navigation label “Riley’s Journey” also links the static page with the title “Blog.” This page will never display a single post unless you assign “Blog” as your posts page at Customize > Static Front Page or at Reading Settings (in the wp-admin dashboard).
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@ onwhisperingwings,
If you intend to display posts on the front page, as it presently does, you could address item 2 above by linking the menu item “Home” to your site URL, which now displays your posts page. Item 3 above may be addressed by removing the menu item associated with the page “Blog.”
Regarding item 4: You may easily have the item “Riley’s Journey” link to your posts page, which now has the site address as it’s URL, by changing the link URL in the menu. However, this would confusingly result in two menu links to the homepage/posts page.
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@ gemmagarner,
Unless something other than your default header image is selected in individual pages/posts (as a featured image), the default header image will be used across all of them.
Some themes have a default header image, or randomized default header images, assigned. The Goran theme, which I think is the one activated in this case, does not assign a default header image, or randomized header images, whether one initially chooses the posts page, or the static page, front page option. There are default header images available at Customize with Goran activated, but they are only suggested and not displayed by default on either the homepage, posts, static pages, or category pages.
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Thanks again. My one year old kindly helped me change some things I did not want change. And the clunky mobile interface keeps crashing. I may just need to wait a few weeks until we get the house moved and I have my computer and Internet set up again.
It has been so long since I have done any work on a blog…the last time I did was when I was writing my own html before blogging was a “thing” and WordPress wasn’t even around… And at this point I am just playing and testing to get the hang of things before I start doing anything. Thanks so much for all of your tips. Definitely helps to know what things to think about when choosing a theme and where to start testing and working!
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@ onwhisperingwings,
You’re welcome. Come back when you’re ready, or when you have more questions.
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