Comments on: How to Enable Custom Header Images Panel in WordPress 3.0

By: forrestmiller

forrestmiller — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:03:50 +0000

Hello, Thanks for this informative post. I followed you steps and it worked out perfectly except for one thing. My header is aligned to the left and i cant seem to figure out how to center it. How can I make this happen?

By: wpbeginner

wpbeginner — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:05:26 +0000

@tronicman %s is the path to your theme. So %s points to yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/ and then you specify afterwards like /images/headers/

By: tronicman

tronicman — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:43:11 +0000

Hi,

thanx for the tutorial, but as I am more a designer than programmer, I could need a little bit of extra information

(I understand HTML and CSS, know a little bit of working with WordPress, but don´t know much about PHP)

´cause that doesn´t work at all.

When changing:

‘cherryblossom’ => array ( ‘url’ => ‘%s/images/headers/cherryblossoms.jpg’, ‘thumbnail_url’ => ‘%s/images/headers/cherryblossoms-thumbnail.jpg’, ‘description’ => __( ‘Cherry Blossoms’, ‘yourtheme’ ) ),

what exactly do I have to write into the URL, instead of the “%s”?

A total path like “http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/mytheme/” ??

Or does it “know” its path (means, that it is in the theme called “mytheme” in the “themes” folder within the “wp-content” folder, and I only have to write “mytheme//images/headers/cherryblossoms.jpg”?? Or shouldn´t I change the “%s” at all?

Do I have to change something in the CSS? And if yes, where and what?

Could you please give me some hints?

By: Berry

Berry — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:51:41 +0000

Hello, I did everything as in the tutorial and it all works, featured images are shown in the header of the posts but everytime I post something I get this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:xampphtdocswordpresswp-contentthemesTiendeveenfunctions.php:239) in C:xampphtdocswordpresswp-adminasync-upload.php on line 2691

Everything works, you only get this error when posting with a featured image which is irritating, any help please?

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:26:35 +0000

You can’t do it with the current header panel because that sets an image for all pages. However you can do it by hard coding the custom-post-type specific page template.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:46:09 +0000

Thanks for the post. In my theme I have 4 different custom post types. I would like to use the header image functionality but also be able to set a different default header image for each of 4 custom post types. Is anyone aware of a plugin/resource for accomplishing this?

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:13:43 +0000

Most likely, you are leaving additional spaces in the functions.php file that is causing this error.

By: pegasus

pegasus — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:24:08 +0000

hey there, hope you can lend me a hand, i’ve cut and pasted the code on my functions.php file and header.php, and everythings works fine as long as i’m logged into the worpress’ dashboard, the problem is when i log out and try to log back in, it shows nothing but a blank page, i’ve styled the old default theme that came with the 2.9 release (was it 2.8??).
any thoughts?

By: chartinael

chartinael — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:44:46 +0000

Hey there, it doesn’t work for me:

have image sized as header images, have in folder x on my server
click on featured image link in post/page
enter url
click insert into post (no other option), i’d expect something like safe as header for this post, page, section god knows what.

then image gets uploaded whereever cursor was at time of clicking and that’s it. Header image still the default image as set in appearance / header section. Am I doing something wrong? Theme is virgin. I thought I’d try things out first.

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:03:40 +0000

Yes, if you look at the default Twenty Ten codes it does that. Basically how it is working is that it takes your featured image that you attach for that post or page, and then displays it there. In Twenty Ten there are other criterias set such as if the width of the featured image is “this big” then show the featured image as the header image, if not then show the default header image.