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Hi there,
I use Mistylook theme as well and I’m trying to configure the random header image plugin that you use. But alas, I cannot seem to get it to work. Could you explain what you did to get yours to work?
Thanks alot;
Adrian
Hi Adrian,
Tnx for dropping by and happy to help.
It really wasn’t easy for me either, as I am no PHP geek. What you have to do is to discover what frame is the top banner. It is not the default in Misty, which is why I had to do some digging. I found it eventually.
There are 2 things you need to do:
1) Go to the Random Header menu in WP (Options, RH)
2) Change the Header ID to “headerimage” (no “”)
3) Remember to put the random images in a folder inside Misty’s directory (mine is /blog/wp-content/themes/mistylook-101/images/
This should be enough. If you want to change the size of the banner (as I did), you may want to take a look at the CSS file. This can easily be adjusted by doing this
1) Go to the admin in WP
2) Presentation
3) Theme Editor
4) Open Style.css
5) Find this:
6) Now adjust the height: 200px to the wanted height of your banner. Mine is set to 100 now.
This should be enough.
Hope it works, or feel free to contact me again.
Yup, got it working.
Misty Look is a great theme, although it is coded a little differently than others. Thanks for the tip;
this is great, just what I was looking for. But I cannot seem to get it working- the plugin shows up and the images are loading in the RH area but no header is showing on the site. I made everything the same as you except the size.
my images are here; wp-content/themes/mistylook-101/images/
and I added your headerid
but I have a feeling that the CSS needs to reflect this-
background: #fff url(img/misty.jpg) no-repeat 0 0;
when I deleted the misty.jpg image there was no header image. theme is stock- no mods.
any help?
Hi Erik,
Tnx for dropping by. Sorry for the slow reply, but your comment was caught by Akismet somehow.
Sounds strange. My CSS has the same and works with no problem:
background: #fff url(img/misty.jpg) no-repeat 0 0;
I think the problem must be elsewhere.
Only think that comes to mind, could be that you have to disable all images again in RH options and add them again afterwards. I think did the same, but I am not quite sure. I think RH looks for the pictures in the old DIR, but keeps a thumbnail. This makes it look like the path are still remembered by RH, but the truth is that it does not.
You should keep in mind, that I used RH before changing to Misty. So after installing MistyLook the pictures was still there, but not working. I am not sure this is a solution, but keep it in mind if you changed theme after enabeling RH too.
Let me know it it works. Good luck.
it got caught by the “f o r e *” in the url- figured out what it is,
yahoo hosting doesnt seem to have the php module installed- because rotate.php script gives an “image error”
but thanks for your help!
Peter, welcome to InterAalborg :o) http://interaalborg.dk/blogs.htm You’re blog is number one! Keep up the good job
Tnx Caros.
Saw the referer in my FireStats list the other day. Funny to get a link from Aalborg :-)
I better repay with a link to Inter Aalborg.
Hi Peter.
I was wondering how you make WP show the little flag icons i the comments?
Is it a plugin.
I recently wrote about making an IP location script at my blog: http://wp.8deg.com/2007/02/19/lab-hvor-kommer-du-fra/
Mads.
I just found it (http://firestats.cc/wiki/EasyIP2Country), sorry.
Hi Mads,
Np :-)
You should go all the way and install FireStats too. The IP2Country flag will be installed together with FireStats, and FireStats really is a cool tool too.
Wow, cool i found someone who did the randomheader in mistylook running…
but the small problem left for me, is that the link of your plugin in your plugin section doesn’t work anymore…
Can u tell me where to find that plugin?
Hi Timo,
Tnx for dropping by.
I can’t get the link to work either. I guess the author stopped supporting or something.
I am not sure this will help you, but try this:
Randomheader zipped
It’s a rip of my plugin. Both the dir and the file should be placed in your blogdir/wp-content/plugins as they are. Don’t know if it works, but think so.
Let me know if it works. :-)
Hi Peter,
Thx for that quick answer and your help. The Admin of the Plugin does work quite nice! All fine, but without a result to the page… Donno what it is.
I can add the images out of the theme/images Folder and they are in the list, I changed the ID of the Header to “headerimage” but nothing happens…
Still got an idea?
Thx for your comment on my blog too :)
Hmm… Thats a tricky one.
Even if the images are in the list, I think you should make sure to use the path I wrote. I am pretty sure they need to be placed inside the dir of the theme that you use. I tried something like it earlier. After changing to Misty, but keeping RandomHeader installed I could pick the images from the plugin admin panel, but couldn’t see them change. So I moved the pictures to this path:
/blog/wp-content/themes/mistylook-101/images/
….then it worked. I am not sure it will solve your problem though. But may be worth a try.
Well, just like i did they are at
blog/wp-content/themes/mistylook-101/images/
How do u call them? Does it matter?
did u change anything else – in the header.php oder the css?
I named all the pictures 01.jpg, 02.jpg, 03.jpg and so on.
Style.css: I fiddled a bit with some text colors, but thats way later than this. Besides that I only made the written changes.
My header looks like this if thats any help.
I don’t recall doing anything else besides the google thingey, but not entirely sure. It’s been a while since :-)
Oh, btw: I sent an email for the author of the plugin, to hear whats up with RandomHeaders future. Hope he answers that it’s just temporarily down.
Btw, the author didn’t answer my email. Guess he has dropped the developement.
FYI: Seems that the newer versions of Mistylook doesn’t work with Random header. Not exactly sure why. Trying to find another plugin that does instead.