Paul Cracknell Wordpress Themes and other stuff

Changing the picture in the header

This is the mountain range at the top of the page.  The easiest way to change it is to make your image the same size and same file name and them upload it to the images folder.

The header image is 950×200 pixels.

The header image can be located in the images folder within the breathe folder. It is called header.jpg

Alternatively if you have already added the theme to your wordpress it is now located at wp-content/themes/breathe/images

About Paul Cracknell

Paul has been designing and running websites for since 1999 with his first site being a travel resource for backpackers. There have been many since then and now his latest interest is Wordpress Themes.

9 Responses to “Changing the picture in the header”

  • Him I like the theme, one problem, I’ve tried to change the header, but I still get mountains. I deleted the old mountains picture from my folder, but I still get the mountains. Whats wrong?

  • Whoops, Sorry to bother you, I just forgot to clear the cache in my browser.

  • Question:

    I would like the header to be a SWF document.
    If’s tried some things. but this doesn’t seem to work

    If made some changes to the CSS files.

    What do u suggest?

    Greets
    Frederik Joosten

  • Embedding a flash movie is not the same as replacing the header picture in my instructions its a little tricky. You need to add code to the header.php within the wordress loop so it is called on each page load. You also need to have a call which alerts the browser if no flash player is available so that the viewer has an option to download the player. You will need to search for embedding flash into html to find out how to do this. If you like I could have a look and do it for you for a small fee.

  • Thank you for your reply.

    It seems if found out what u mean.
    I’ve used a plug-in called Kimili Flash Embed
    This pluggin gives the option to change the header in to a .swf file.
    After installation i’ve changed the code.

    [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.defact.nl/wordpress/wp-content/themes/breathe/images/header.swf” height=”950” width=”200”]

    <a href=”” title=””>

    This is the code that should change the header in to a .swf file.
    The header seems to dissapear (that’s oke).
    But the swf doesn’t seem to appear.

    Any suggestions?

  • This seems to be the correct code (didn’t seemt to paste properly during previous post).

    [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.defact.nl/wordpress/wp-content/themes/breathe/images/header.swf” height=”950” width=”200”]

    <a href=”” title=””>

    Greetz
    Frederik Joosten

  • hmm..not able to copy the whole code for some reason.

    :P

    Greetz
    Frederik Joosten

  • I have sent you an e-mail about this.

  • Is there an easy way to change the the height of the header image to something smaller than 200px?

    I’m guessing there is more to it than just uploading a ’shorter’ header image (ie 100 x 950).