Rotating banner

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  essicolo · Member · Jul 17, 2011 at 3:13 pm

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  I’m looking for a way to create a rotating banner like OMG!Ubuntu! did:
  http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/

  The only way to include a rotating banner in Worpress.com seems to adopt the Modularity Lite theme. However, the slideshow seems to be restricted to 950px X 425px images. The CSS can be edited to restrict the slideshow to a smaller height (lets say 200px), but it only crops the slideshow rather than resizes it. A not so elegant solution is to create images in posts with 950px X 425px dimensions with the banner on the top 200px of the image, and hide the images in the posts (style=”display:none”).

  Anybody has a cleverer solution?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 17, 2011 at 3:25 pm

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  You could use an animated gif:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/use-of-gif-animation-in-header-image?replies=3

  but a cautionary note:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theres-a-wpcom-blog-which-able-to-use-animation?replies=8#post-391596

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  essicolo · Member · Jul 17, 2011 at 3:57 pm

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  Thanks for the suggestion. The issue with animated gifs is that one can not link a post respectively to the image currently showed on.