Hello everyone:

I need to get under the hood of a WP theme I activated for a group blog. Is it possible to do this? I don’t see the area where you can normally access php/header/footer files in the dashboard.

Hello everyone:

I need to get under the hood of a WP theme I activated for a group blog. Is it possible to do this? I don’t see the area where you can normally access php/header/footer files in the dashboard.

[Shawn M. (he/him/his)]

The header feature is pretty buggy, as it keeps resizing my header images as well (visible when refreshing the page). I suspect this is a residual effect from the former settings/images in place before the upgrade. For example, my rotating header images were taken out of my media section a while ago, yet they’re still in rotation. This suggests they were copied into a directory that we (as WPmu users) cannot access.

I zeroed the header height as Scott suggested and inserted my [now static] header into one of the available horizontal bars. I used horizontal bar 1:

height: 150px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
background-image: url(http://nycnect.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2010/11/atahualpa_header_1.jpg);

…no translucent overlays on the side, but I’m willing to live with that until this bug gets hammered out. Thanks for your help, Scott.

[Shawn M. (he/him/his)]

Rowena,

It looks like your problem is caused by the ‘Fade in/out header images with Javascript’ option. When I set this to 0, the title overlay doesn’t disappear. Another bug I guess.

[Rowena Li]

Thanks, Shawn. I am going to change the Fade in/out option to 0 tonight and see. Also, do you know how to get ride of the two gray lines behind? I am going to upload my own pictures to see what will happen. Thanks a million.

[Scott Voth (he/him)]

Hi – Please see the attached. There is some sort of background image that the authors put in the background. If you remove it, you will get rid of those lines. Hope this helps!

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[Scott Voth (he/him)]

(Screenshot above is after removing the background image.)

[Scott Voth (he/him)]

Hi Shawn – Boone is going to put in a fix for that theme that should resolve the resizing. I will let you know when it’s done. Thanks for helping out!

[Rowena Li]

Thanks, Scott. I deleted the background image.

[Daisy (Domínguez) Singh (she)]

Thanks, Scott and also everyone else for all the questions. I was so excited to be able to customize with just a few clicks. I actually haven’t even tried this with my other blog which is hosted outside the Commons so I’m going to have to experiment there, too. Thanks so much!

[Rowena Li]

Shawn, Thanks for your advice. Now I changed the setting, so that the blog title doesn’t overlap over the photos.

[Sarah Morgano]

Hi everyone,

Boone just posted on the CUNY Academic Commons Development blog that he released Commons 1.1.6 which, “improves the way that the Atahualpa theme handles custom headers” (http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/12/22/commons-1-1-6/). Hopefully, this should resolve issues that folks have been experiencing with their blogs.

Best,

Sarah

[Aaron Kendall]

Thanks to everyone for all the great feedback. I’m finally getting really close to having my blog header fixed, with only one issue remaining…the header image is covering up the title and tagline. I have my header image in the logo area and the header height set to zero. Any ideas?

[Daisy (Domínguez) Singh (she)]

Hey Aaron,

Not sure if this is the answer, but under the Style and Edit Header Area tab, do you have Show Blog Title and Show Blog Tagline set to “yes”?

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[Aaron Kendall]

Hi Daisy, yes I do have that value set to “yes”. I feel like the problem may be that I have my header image as part of the logo and not the actual header, with my header height set to “0”. This prevents any header formatting. However, due to all the glitches with Atahualpa, that was the only way I could even get my header image to show up. I see now that Boone has possibly fixed these issues with the recent Commons upgrade; so maybe I should just start from scratch and put the image back into the header and see what happens.

[Shawn M. (he/him/his)]

The banner graphic is actually pushing your title to the right, since the logo div was only meant for smaller graphics. I would move your banner to one of the available horizontal bars instead (mentioned in a previous post).

…but it sounds like Boone fixed the bug by updating Commons, so you could revert back to placing your header graphic where it was originally intended.

[Aaron Kendall]

I reverted back to putting my header image in the “header image”. The problem now seems to be that the image doesn’t sit above the page as I would expect a “header” to do, but sits right on top of everything. Does anyone know of a way to push everything down, or else push my header up above?