Motif header

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  devunlaw · Member · Jan 18, 2014 at 8:27 pm

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  Yesterday I was customizing a header in Motif. It suggested an image that was 900×1600. I created what I wanted and uploaded. Perfect. But I had one thing that I wanted to correct. Today I made the correction and uploaded. Suddenly, instead of a header, it’s a small little rectangle in the corner of the page. When I went to re-load, I noticed that the limit was 330×110. Hmmm.

  Now I spent quite a bit of time on this project yesterday. I cleared my cashe thinking it was just imaging wrong. Nope. It’s as if the theme was changed over night.

  Anybody?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 18, 2014 at 8:32 pm

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  Are you referring to this HUGE image that is not optimized for the web?
  http://devunlaw.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/scales-27.png
  5,668.07 KB (5,804,108 bytes)
  1,600px × 900px (scaled to 993px × 559px)

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 18, 2014 at 8:34 pm

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  If you are then it’s appearing as a background image not as a header.

  See:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/custom-header-image/#uploading-a-custom-header-image

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 18, 2014 at 8:36 pm

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  Also note what the detailed theme description states:

  Custom Header
  Motif supports a custom header image that you can use to upload your own logo. You can choose to display the header text or hide it.

  To upload your image, go to Appearance → Header. The maximum size of the image is 320 x 110 pixels. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/motif/

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  devunlaw · Member · Jan 18, 2014 at 8:43 pm

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  “Yesterday I was customizing a header in Motif. It suggested an image that was 900×1600. I created what I wanted and uploaded. Perfect.”

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  thedesignflaw · Member · Feb 1, 2014 at 9:59 pm

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  I’m having the same issue. The initial upload worked great. I wanted to make a change and any further image is subject to the 320×110 limit… which is useless for what I want to do. Is there a way to change this limit with CSS?

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  thedesignflaw · Member · Feb 1, 2014 at 11:47 pm

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  devunlaw. I’ve found that the original header that I uploaded and applied to the motif theme is still there and I can still use it at it’s full size.
  For thistimethisspace my blog is thedesignflaw.wordpress.com, but it’s not available right now as I’m doing a DNS change with my registrar to get my domain that I bought with them to play with my premium wordpress.com.