Custom Header never works with any theme
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hi every time i upload and crop a photo (usually not the specified size of the header) it doesn’t work… i have tried numerous themes and still no luck
any help would be awesome!
thanks
joker3.1
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There are problems with cropping lately. I would advise you to check the size of the header in advance and use a graphics program to make sure your header image is exactly the right size before uploading.
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I also have this problem. Also if I try to change theme, it looks fine on preview and then screws up completely on activation. It would appear that the custom header is being deleted or zeroed and then the reuploaded header doesn’t have write permissions – since any file uploaded will not be visible. My blog is here: http://thomastolkien.wordpress.com/
It’s not a cache issue, tried on 3 browsers on two machines. Please email me on (email visible only to moderators and staff) when this problem has been rectified.
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OK, now that I have that information, I can solve your problem.
Once you have the custom CSS upgrade, the custom header image uploading no longer works and you have to put the absolute URL for the image into the CSS directly.
From what I can see, you have copied the theme’s CSS and put it into the edit CSS window. Go to the custom CSS edit page, find #headerimage and in the background declaration, change img/misty.jpg to http://thomastolkien.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cropped-twitterbackgorund.jpg and then click “save.”
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Thanks – this worked
– I had tried that in the last ten minutes, but without the full http: prefix – assuming the css would know the root for the images location. With the full prefix this all now works fine. Is it right to conclude their is something up with the img servers? This problem seems to be occuring with all the appearance CSS scripts I’ve tried this evening.
Anyway – many thanks for you help. I’m now going to turn everything off and eat.
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You’re welcome.
Once you get the CSS upgrade, the CSS file that is created for you moves to another directory, so the relative URL’s for the images in the CSS don’t work anymore.
What I always do, is to click the “add to existing…” radio button, and then put ONLY the sections, and specific declarations I’m changing into the edit window. For me at least, that makes more sense and allows me to more easily see exactly what I have changed when I come back to it in the future. And in that way, there are less issues with the relative/absolute URL’s.
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