Random Image Header Tutorial

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    skywardfarmer · Member ·

    Thanks for your speedy reply.

    Let’s start with this please. This is the url for your wordpress.com blog http://cronkchronicles.wordpress.com/ and it is free hosted by wordpress.com.

    Yep!

    If you link your wordpress.com username to your wordpress.com blog then we can click on your username and see what you are talking about.

    Done! I gave myself an avatar and nickname, too.

    This support forum is only for those with blogs hosted by wordpress.com.

    What?! No World of Warcraft questions?! Just kidding…my question stems from my wordpress.com blog.

    Have you purchased the css upgrade for your blog?

    Yes. However, since I’ve only been using WP for 2 days, my Paypal transactions for upgrades are still pending. I’ve been using the preview mode to test the random image header trick. So you won’t be able to see the missing header image just yet. However, it looks like blank white space. An elephant in a snow storm or such.

    If you have a specific question about your wordpress.com blog then would you please restate it?

    Let me try. Alas, I fear this will be long winded. I managed to make Urban Semiotic’s 9 step recipe work, albeit on the Misty Something-or-Other theme using the preview mode as my custom css transaction is not yet complete. It works fine if I put the rotate.php script and associated images in the public_html directory at the ISP where I host my MT blog. But I’ve come to loath MT, and have moved our blog to wordpress.com. I’d like to find a free host for the rotate.php file and header images. I’ve tried two: joolo.com and freephpwebhosting for no particular reason apart that I can spell them reliably. However, when I tried to test these free hosts with the random image header script (again in preview mode,) I only see blank white space where once one of my beautiful random header images used to be. Happens with both hosts. I’m theorizing that WP.com is blocking traffic from free PHP hosts for security reasons, but there are other possibilities.

    So to my restated question:

    Does WP.com’s firewall squash incoming packets from known free PHP hosting sites like joolo.com and freephphosting.com?

    If not, can anyone speculate why the random header image script works correctly with one host and not another?

    Thanks!

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    boles · Member ·

    I think you’ll need to wait for the CSS upgrade to be applied to your account first before you can even begin to test it in real time.

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