Cutline Theme for WordPress

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• 1 Simple Random Header Images for Your Blog | Pearsonified // Oct 11, 2006 at 11:58 pm

  […] 1 WordPress pages are still compiled in PHP, but by default, they do not end with the .php extension. I realize this is confusing, but this is the hand I’ve been dealt. ↑ Update: If you’re using the Cutline theme for WordPress, I’ve done all the dirty work for you! Check out random header images for Cutline! […]

• 2 mike // Oct 12, 2006 at 8:05 am

  Chris, what I can I say but THANK YOU, it’s beautiful, cheers!

• 3 biagio // Oct 13, 2006 at 2:09 pm

  THANK YOU : it’s beautiful …

• 4 Michael Boyle // Oct 15, 2006 at 4:26 am

  You can also use another technique that is slightly more generalized. Basically you just link to a php script instead of the image and the script pulls up a random image from the folder it’s in. The details are covered at A List Apart. (To be clear, I had nothing to do with making this, I just found it and used it on my blog and thought it might be useful to someone else, too.)

• 5 Website Header Images Available | But Wait, There’s More // Oct 15, 2006 at 10:32 am

  […] Click on the small banner to see the full size version. I have cropped the full size images to 770 pixels wide by 140 pixels high to match the default in the Cutline theme, but you can use these images in any theme you want. The Cutline Theme website has good instructions for customizing your header images and adding random header images. Be sure to check them out. […]

• 6 Captain Hops // Oct 15, 2006 at 10:39 am

  This is such a great theme, I have decided to give back to the community. I have just released 10 images under Creative Commons pre-cropped to the proper size for the Cutline theme.

  If anyone is looking for nice header pictures for their blog or website, send them my way. If people like them, I will release more.

  Cheers!

• 7 khmerbird // Oct 16, 2006 at 7:54 am

  i am one of the fan of Cutline them,
  i got some problem with my head image,
  my picture original is in a good quality
  but after uploading and crop, there are some worst black poin that i don’t like…

  please let me know if there’s a way to fix it or what is the best original size to upload?

  my original one is already setup to 770*140
  but i still have this problem
  thank in advance for ur help

  KB

• 8 Chris // Oct 16, 2006 at 8:00 am

  khmerbird,

  It looks as though your image may not be a native .jpg file. That is, perhaps it was originally a .bmp or a .gif, and you simply changed the file extension to .jpg in order to have it display on your site.

  I recommend one of two options here:

  1. Use the native file type by changing the file extensions in the header image declarations
  2. Use an excellent graphics program, such as Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks, to change between file types

• 9 yece // Oct 16, 2006 at 1:21 pm

  Hello Chris,
  I really like yout theme, but I have a problem, I don’t know why but all changes that I do in code(translations) relative to text showed in the page as No comments translation to Ningún comentario seem to not allow special characters( I write in spanish). This is a code problem or a database problem? Thanks in advance

• 10 Chris // Oct 16, 2006 at 1:31 pm

  Yece,

  I think it’s actually an issue of character encoding on the server. You can solve this by using the character entity reference for a particular character instead of the character itself.

  See how your ú in Ningún has the accent mark? To get that to appear properly outside of the boundaries of a post or comment, you’ll need to encode that character with its appropriate character entity.

  The characters show up correctly in posts and comments because WordPress comes equipped with a character conversion encoder that does this dirty work for you.

• 11 khmerbird // Oct 16, 2006 at 11:42 pm

  thank Chris for your advice,
  i have tried to change my native picture to jpg,
  it look fine before cropping,
  but after croping, it is still not in good quality,
  what is the process of cropping?

• 12 khmerbird // Oct 17, 2006 at 12:13 am

  this is the my original in jpg
  please help me to diplay it correctly,

  thank for ur help,

  http://khmerbird.apsara.org/blog/logo4.jpg

• 13 Chris // Oct 17, 2006 at 2:14 am

  khmerbird,

  Instead of linking to your “cropped” image (which happens to be totally unnecessary), link directly to this image.

  As long as you link to the file that looks nice, you won’t have any problems.

• 14 khmerbird // Oct 17, 2006 at 3:07 am

  thank Chris,
  i really want to link, but i can’t change the code of the them, or do we can a way to change it?

  thank again for ur conerned,
  have a nice day

• 15 Chris // Oct 17, 2006 at 3:11 am

  Hmm, I suggest simply uploading the good image in place of the bad one. I had forgotten that you were on the hosted version of WordPress at WordPress.com.

• 16 Nick // Oct 19, 2006 at 1:58 am

  Chris, do you know if there would be a way to write an if statement to choose a set of banners depending on the blog category? Like, /lost or /desperate-housewives… then to integrate an array that would append a number like “_01.jpg”, “_02.jpg” to the variable image name, so that if the category was lost then it would dynamically pull: lost_01.jpg or lost_02.jpg based on the blog category?

  Like you said, complicated as hell. Could really extend a site, though. And I suspect you could make a pretty penny extending your system for such a case and selling it as an enterprise solution.

• 17 Chris // Oct 19, 2006 at 3:17 am

  Nick, you could do it (I’ve done something similar for a test site). It involves carrying over WP query terms and storing them in variables.

  You may be able to wade your way through this muck at the WordPress Codex — at least that’s what I did.

  The solution is too much of a one-off, time-consuming bummer for me to post here. Sorry

• 18 jim wagner // Oct 21, 2006 at 5:13 pm

  Chris,

  Nice theme.

  Question: what if I wanted only the front page to have a static image?

  Thanks.

• 19 Chris // Oct 23, 2006 at 7:14 am

  Jim, if you want your front page to have a static image while rotating 5 pictures on your other pages, you will need to implement the following code:

  <?php if (is_home()) { ?>
     <img src=”path/to/header_1.jpg” />
  <?php } else { ?>
     <img src=”path/to/header_<?php echo(rand(2,6)); ?>.jpg” />
  <?php } ?>

  Please note that header_1.jpg will then be used only on the front page, and header_2.jpg through header_6.jpg will be rotated on all other pages of your site.

• 20 Matt // Oct 23, 2006 at 7:03 pm

  Okay, now tell us how you put that little icon in the top-right corner of your banner image that says “Random header images - find out how” and links to this story.

  Pretty please?

• 21 Kate // Oct 25, 2006 at 1:02 pm

  Oooh, that’s lovely… I agonized over the selection of beautiful images for the artmarketing site, then agonized again over which ones to put on which pages. Now, all singing and dancing!

• 22 brian // Oct 27, 2006 at 11:54 am

  Matt- not to butt in, but remember the header is just a jpg image and you can edit it however you like.. I am fairly certain that the text in the header here - “Random header images - find out how” - is just something that was photoshopped in. You can make the banner appear however you want.

  Hope I’m not wrong. haha

• 23 Chris // Oct 27, 2006 at 12:54 pm

  Brian,

  You’re wrong

  It’s a div overlay that is absolutely positioned within <div id="header_img">.

  I’ll post on it as soon as I get a minute. You got any to spare?

• 24 Mario // Oct 28, 2006 at 4:30 pm

  Chris;

  I would like very much to know how do you do the overlay in the header image. Thanks

• 25 Chris // Oct 29, 2006 at 1:13 am

  Mario,

  I’m going to put together a quick tutorial on that topic sometime this week. Stay tuned!

• 26 Torley // Nov 1, 2006 at 4:31 am

  Wowza, this looks so elegant how you’ve put it together, Chris! The Cutline Theme sure looks nice too.

  I’m wondering, and I didn’t see this mentioned above, but is it easy to adapt this Random Header Images techniques for other blog templates?

  Thank you.

• 27 Chris // Nov 1, 2006 at 10:59 am

  Torley,

  The idea behind that code can be adapted to any platform that uses PHP. The most generalized version of the code, called Simple Random Header Images for Your Blog, can be found at Pearsonified.

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• 29 Argentina’s Travel Blog Launches! - Flee the Cube // Nov 21, 2006 at 1:50 pm

  […] Of the many mods, the most important are probably the subscribe box (powered through Aweber), the RSS button, the site index which is a simple template file I wrote, the awesome awesome Flickr photo album courtesy of tan tan noodles, the snazzy archive listing courtesy of Chris Pearson, and the fun random headers, which I wrote myself before realizing Chris Pearson had done the same. […]

• 30 Duncan // Nov 27, 2006 at 5:54 pm

  Is there a way to do this loading random pics from my flickr account? Any whiz kids out there want to give this a shot?

• 31 Chris // Nov 27, 2006 at 6:17 pm

  Duncan,

  I use the FlickrRSS Plugin to pull images from Flickr. The major problem here, however, is that it is unable to pull random images because it uses a simple RSS feed to acquire the latest content.

  As soon as a solution becomes available, I’m sure it will makes waves within the WordPress community.

  I know that I, for one, will be all over it, and as soon as I hear about it, I’ll post it here.

• 32 Curtis “The Lassam” Lassam » Blog Archive » Curtis designs a website! // Nov 28, 2006 at 3:59 am

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• 33 Cutline Theme at Wordpress Themes That Don’t Suck // Nov 29, 2006 at 3:34 pm

  […] Tips:You can do random header images with a small tweak to the default theme.  […]

• 34 Lazo // Nov 30, 2006 at 8:17 am

  Chris,

  First of all i gotta thank you for making this out.

  I need some help over here. I would like to have random pictures for my blog, but specific picture on specific post/page.

  From what i see in the header.php , the only variable is the (is_page(’about’) . However, my target is not the about/archieve, but the post/page title. For example, i can have random images for the frontpage, about, and etc, but i want a specific image for my special written post/page.

  It would be lovely if this can be done.

  What should I tweak with the (is_page(’###’) ?

• 35 Chris // Nov 30, 2006 at 11:49 am

  Lazo,

  Although it will result in code that is somewhat unwieldy, you can place random images on specific posts and pages.

  Doing this with Pages is simple, mostly because I’ve already done the coding for you in this Special Random Header Image file.

  Making this work for Posts is only slightly more complicated. Instead of using a conditional statement to target a Page, you’ll want to use a conditional to target a Single Post:

  <?php if (is_single(’post-slug‘)) { ?>
  <img src=”image/location” />
  <?php } ?>

  In this case, post-slug is what you entered (or was auto-generated) in the Post Slug box on the Write Post page of your WordPress Administration Panel. Using this structure queries the DB and targets the post containing the specified slug.

• 36 cutline: this one looks interesting « confused2 // Dec 1, 2006 at 7:05 am

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• 37 David Johns // Dec 2, 2006 at 8:12 am

  Is it possible to make each of the images clickable with a different link? I am looking for a theme for a record company blog and it would be useful to have a random image of each of our artists as the header, along with a link to their relative site or page.

• 38 Chris // Dec 2, 2006 at 9:13 am

  David,

  Theoretically, you could call up completely random bits of code; and therefore, you could call up different clickable images.

  To illustrate, let’s say you have 3 bands that you want to feature and rotate randomly in the header.

  1. Run this code — <?php $rotate_img = rand(1,3); ?>.
  2. Use $rotate_img to create a PHP conditional that determines which band’s image and link to pull up.

  Once you’ve sectioned off a block of XHTML with some conditional PHP, you can include whatever you want. In this case, it’ll be a hyperlinked image for a particular band.

• 39 David // Dec 3, 2006 at 9:35 am

  Thanks Chris, its good to know that it is possible. However, I have no idea about PHP and got totally lost when you started to point out the code to me. Is it a simple case of adding the hyperlinks to the code that is already in the template? Or is it a more complex endeavour?

• 40 Chris // Dec 3, 2006 at 1:37 pm

  It’s a little more complex than that.

  You’ll need to construct an if statement in PHP to control what gets displayed.

  If you’re familiar with Computer Science (logic) algorithms in general, then the tenets remain the same when dealing with PHP. You can find the proper syntax located in example modules at php.net.

• 41 Simple Random Header Images for Your Blog // Dec 8, 2006 at 6:08 pm

  […] 1 WordPress pages are still compiled in PHP, but by default, they do not end with the .php extension. I realize this is confusing, but this is the hand I’ve been dealt. ↑ Update: If you’re using the Cutline theme for WordPress, I’ve done all the dirty work for you! Check out random header images for Cutline! […]

• 42 Kristen // Dec 15, 2006 at 3:01 pm

  How do I change the size of the header image? I changed header_1.jpg to be 200px high in the header.php file, but it still appears to be squashed down.

• 43 Chris // Dec 15, 2006 at 3:09 pm

  Kristen,

  You actually have to change the height="140" declaration inside header.php. Change the value to 200 and you should be good to go!

• 44 Kristen // Dec 15, 2006 at 3:29 pm

  Am I right in guessing that will make the images I haven’t yet changed stretch out to fill the 200px height?

• 45 Chris // Dec 15, 2006 at 3:48 pm

  Kristen — now would be the time to shoot first and ask questions later

  To put it another way, yes!

• 46 Kristen // Dec 15, 2006 at 4:34 pm

  Hello! I am the world’s neediest Cutline user!

  Thanks, though, seriously — I was on the verge of hiring someone to help me get my blog looking better before I stumbled on this theme, and I really appreciate you taking the time to answer all my lame questions.

• 47 Chris // Dec 15, 2006 at 4:54 pm

  Kristen,

  You can do it all yourself; I have total confidence in you

• 48 Sean // Dec 20, 2006 at 3:50 pm

  Hey Chris, did you ever get a chance to put together a quick tutorial on how to do the image overlay you have in the header?

• 49 Ethan // Dec 20, 2006 at 11:25 pm

  I’m chiming in with Sean here. Would love a quick tutorial on how to do the image overlay thing too Thanks for a great theme and resource site!

• 50 Ethan // Dec 21, 2006 at 2:17 am

  HI.

  I managed to figure out the overlay. At least for my blog title that is Here’s what I did. If I got it wrong, or there is a cleaner, neater way, please correct me.

  style.css (edited portion)
  #masthead h1 { padding: 0.4em 0; border-top: 0 solid #ccc; clear: both;
  position: absolute;
  font-style: italic;
  margin-left: 5px;
  margin-top: 80px;
  }

  header.php (edited portions)

  “>

  /images/header_about.jpg” width=”770″ height=”140″ alt=” about page header image” />

  /images/header_.jpg” width=”770″ height=”140″ alt=” random header image” />

• 51 Ethan // Dec 21, 2006 at 11:17 pm

  Hi Chris.

  Wanted to post the edited portions of my header.php file but it got messed up. How do I post code into comment boxes?

• 52 Deb // Dec 22, 2006 at 10:35 pm

  Help. I new to all of this kind of stuff. I created these gorgeous headers in pagemaker, I’ve got them all named e.g., header_1.jpg and I uploaded them onto Wordpress. From there I’m stumped. To simply get one customized image in the header you do that from the dashboard, presentation and custom header image. But to get these random images to work I’m just a little more than clueless. Where do I copy this code. I need detailed step-by-step directions.

  Your tutorial is assuming some knowledge that I apparently don’t have.

  All help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks!

• 53 Michelle // Dec 25, 2006 at 10:17 pm

  I was just wondering if it is possible to do the randomizing with more than 5 images and if so can you tell me how.

• 54 pria // Dec 28, 2006 at 1:39 pm

  same thing as deb.

  and how do you go about _creating_ a wordpress template?

• 55 Michelle // Dec 28, 2006 at 2:16 pm

  hi,

  I just want to say thanks for creating such a great blog design choice. I am an artist at heart and love to change things and this header gives me the opportunity to have a new look each time i visit my site.
  I currently have designed my own images and have 25 rotating images on my blog(www.goldenvegetarian.com) My blog is still in progess buy I love the way it allows me to customize it without having just a static picture.

  Great work I just love it.

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• 57 Cecily // Jan 16, 2007 at 10:40 am

  Could someone share the information on how to get more than five random images in the header? I’ve uploaded around ten to the server, but only five show up in regular rotation. Thanks!

• 58 Ethan // Jan 16, 2007 at 10:48 am

  HI.

  Go to your cutline theme folder. Look for the header.php file and find the line that had this : php echo(rand(1,5). Then just change the number 5 to something else that you want. That should do it.

• 59 Rod // Jan 21, 2007 at 1:06 pm

  Hi all. I would like to include the tagline with the site name. I have filled in this of course but in Cutline in does not seem to appear. Am I missing something? I wonder.. and help in this matter is appreciated. Thanks Rod

• 60 Tom // Jan 30, 2007 at 2:47 pm

  Chris,

  You rock, dude. I love your theme! I am trying to use a logo in the masthead while still keeping the Wordpress Weblog title under the “Options Tab”. How can I do both so that I can use my logo and still have a Weblog title? Currently, I made the H1 title pop out on the far right, and made it very small. (I know, it looks like dog poop!)

  Also, how can I center my logo in the masthead section…I have tried everything in my limited bag of css tricks. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

  Tom Z.

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• 62 Sucharith // Feb 2, 2007 at 4:38 am

  Hi,

  Does the Random Header Image fix work with the latest 1.1 version ?

  Sucharith

• 63 Cutline 1.1 — Running a Killer Website Just Got Easier | Cutline Theme for WordPress // Feb 2, 2007 at 12:13 pm

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• 64 Chris // Feb 2, 2007 at 12:22 pm

  Sucharith — Both of the download links in this post refer to header files that were constructed for version 1.03. I actually changed their names to reflect the fact that they are now legacy code, as each file is appended with _1_03.

  I have quite a bit of work to do regarding finalizing the 1.1 release, and part of that work is to issue new random header image files that will work with the new version.

  Stay tuned for those, though, as I hope to have them out today.

• 65 Chris // Feb 2, 2007 at 12:23 pm

  Sucharith — Updated random header generators are available at the bottom of the official Cutline 1.1 release post.

• 66 Marlo // Feb 5, 2007 at 1:48 pm

  Chris,

  I noticed that the random header file is not calling the custom.css file. To get it working, I inserted: /custom.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” /> at line 12. And replaced at line 23.

  Hope that’s all I needed to do. Thanks for the great theme, btw.

  -Marlo

• 67 Mark // Feb 5, 2007 at 8:54 pm

  I think Marlo is on to something, except my line numbers are a little different than hers. I did the line 12 fix and it added my custom css back in but blew pretty much everything else out of the water.

  Could you maybe take a look at the random header file (not using the special one)? Also, what’s the impact of the IE specific stuff on the custom css file. do they reference it?

  Thanks.

• 68 Mark // Feb 8, 2007 at 8:04 am

  OK, I answered my own questions about the IE specific stuff once I had a moment to have a look.

  Any word on the random header file and custom css? I tried Marlo’s suggestion, although I have no idea what she replaced at line 23 as my line 23 is the body tag. Just adding /custom.css where she did breaks all the css for the blog.

• 69 Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy // Feb 11, 2007 at 3:00 pm

  Hi Chris - I am an instant convert to Cutline…but I wasn’t able to find the image overlay answer? Was Ethan (above) close? It seemed to be missing something. Thanks for your work!

• 70 Paul // Feb 13, 2007 at 11:37 am

  I agree with Mark as to the random header file and the custom css. Seems like it is not picking up the custom css causing the styes to break apart. Any one know how to fix this issue?

• 71 Mark Mathson // Feb 14, 2007 at 11:17 am

  “

  I would like to have my blog name and the post or page name in the title formatted like this cutline.tubetorial.com page is. Any suggestions on how to achieve this in the above code?

  Thanks…

• 72 Mark Mathson // Feb 14, 2007 at 11:18 am

  Oops… I meant to post it like this…

• 73 Mobius // Feb 15, 2007 at 8:03 pm

  Man… You are a genious!!!

• 74 Eric // Feb 20, 2007 at 3:00 am

  Nice theme. Thanks.

• 75 rahul // Feb 20, 2007 at 8:57 am

  This is the best Theme in the whole world.
  Thanks Chris.
  —-Rahul India.

• 76 Cutline på dansk // Feb 21, 2007 at 3:34 am

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• 77 Patrick // Feb 21, 2007 at 7:55 pm

  I was trying to put a background image behind the h1 in the masthead..so that I had a background image behind the h1 text of the blog title. any suggestions?

• 78 Patrick // Feb 21, 2007 at 8:45 pm

  oh got it … I had to un comment the masthead image in the css and change the masthead box size…

• 79 Cutline 1.1 på dansk // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:49 am

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• 80 Cliff // Feb 28, 2007 at 3:31 pm

  Am I wrong, or does your random header file not work with custom css? I can not get the custom.css to work with your random header.php. I tried just adding class=”custom” to the body tag, but that didn’t work.

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• 82 hoosierplew // Mar 11, 2007 at 11:44 pm

  @Cliff -

  I noticed that too. you need to copy over the stylesheet link as well as adding “custom” to the body tag:

  
/custom.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />


• 83 Paul // Mar 12, 2007 at 9:31 am

  I’m using the random header function for the first time but is working intermitently and sometimes the image is not loaded - any ideas please?

• 84 Paul // Mar 12, 2007 at 4:34 pm

  Chris no need to moderate this or my last comment - I’m a clut! One of the header files started with an upper case ‘h’

• 85 Garri // Mar 24, 2007 at 4:36 am

  Does anyone know if this random header image generator can be successfully used on the Press Row theme?

• 86 hans // Apr 20, 2007 at 3:15 pm

  Where do I place the special random images code?

  Do I remove all the code for the header images 1-5 and then paste the new code in?

  thank you

• 87 Jeremy // Apr 22, 2007 at 6:09 am

  Is there ANY way to do this without php, in xhtml or html? If not how do I know if my host site uses php? Thanks, awesome tutorial and idea by the way.

• 88 Dustin // May 1, 2007 at 6:34 pm

  If your host doesn’t have PHP installed, you need a new host. You can bet that any commercial hosting service has the preprocessor installed. Check it by creating a file called phpcheck.php with the following code:

• 89 Wordpress Plugins // May 2, 2007 at 10:08 am

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• 90 Modifying the Cutline theme | Patrickone Dotnet // May 13, 2007 at 10:09 am

  […] of the header.php. Why? Because this modication has already been done by Chris himself. Just go to the Cutline page and download the new header file to replace yours and the five jpeg images you replaced will now be displayed […]

• 91 Kori // May 23, 2007 at 7:35 pm

  By chance, will this work for Pressrow?

• 92 Peter Beck // May 24, 2007 at 3:30 pm

  Howdy — I’m having the same problem that a few folks have noted above, namely that for WordPress 2.1.3 and Cutline 1.1, inserting the randomization files breaks the custom css changes I’ve made.

  If it can be corrected via a line or two of extra code, I’d really appreciate more explicit instructions about what and where to place them.

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• 94 Nick Molnar // Jun 19, 2007 at 1:12 pm

  Chris-

  Excellent theme.

  Is there an easy way to assign specific header images to specific pages?

• 95 Ben // Jul 1, 2007 at 6:05 am

  I have my header image on the front page but on the Archives, about and sitemap the default headers work. How do I use the same home page header throughout the cutline site?

• 96 pat // Jul 13, 2007 at 11:02 pm

  Hi–I’m on wordpress and use cutline–and I really like it–but I cant figure out whether the random images is actually available to me. I currently have a free of cost blog and I dont believe I have access to customizing CSS, so is this feature available to someone in my position or would an upgrade be necessary? I’ve double checked my wordpress tabs in my presentation and theme area and I dont see where I can simply place this random image code (I’m still a little new to blogging, so….) Thanks

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• 98 Eugene // Aug 2, 2007 at 9:26 am

  Hello guys,

  I used

  [code]
  /images/header_.jpg” width=”770″ height=”140″ alt=” random header image” title=” random header image” />
  [code]

  the header img only shows on the main page not on any other page. any idea?

• 99 Nancy // Aug 2, 2007 at 9:45 am

  I uploaded the random header thing from Chris and now I have no image and something funky has happened to the margins. I don’t even know where to find code — I just uploaded to images folder and expected my five images to work. It did remove the default image.

  Help of any kind would be appreciated so much!

• 100 zagg // Aug 4, 2007 at 6:29 pm

  Cris, first of all thank you for this spetacular theme. I’m trying to use the random_header_1_03.zip but it seens not to be the 3 columms version. Is there a new version?
  thank you man!!

• 101 mbjorn // Aug 13, 2007 at 11:06 am

  I want to customize header images — one stable image for the front page (not a ramdon image), and a set image for each of four categories.

  Is there a how-to on this?

  Thank you.

• 102 asia_b // Aug 14, 2007 at 10:30 pm

  Hi all, Randomizer seems to be working but photos are squished, has anyone had this issue happen and if so, any fixes? Thanks in advance, any & all help would be great!

• 103 asia_b // Aug 14, 2007 at 10:36 pm

  Sorry, changed img size to 970…so easy. Thanks, great theme, love it!

• 104 Keith // Aug 15, 2007 at 9:47 am

  I also put together a Wordpress Widget to accomplish this. It also requires the images to be sized correctly, but they can be named anything and will be randomly selected for each page.

  Download here

• 105 Wordpress Rotating Header Images no Plugins » Personal Blog of Jason Neuman » Blog Archive // Aug 23, 2007 at 1:20 am

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• 106 Noli Mirador // Aug 23, 2007 at 8:25 pm

  Hi, nice image randomizer, I want to use it for another wordpress themes, that have a header image. Could it be work? or it is just for the theme cutline? I have no enough knowledge in coding.

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• 110 Aman Batra // Sep 30, 2007 at 5:39 am

  Can the random headers be used for the wordpress.com free blog?

• 111 Random header’s up // Oct 2, 2007 at 12:01 pm

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• 112 Shawn Collins // Oct 12, 2007 at 3:15 pm

  One thing I noticed was that the width was set to 770, instead of 970.

  I just changed it manaully - otherwise it works great.

  Thanks.

• 113 claudia // Oct 22, 2007 at 8:16 pm

  chris, hi… this is all so over my head that it’s not even funny. but - i love your theme and i want to customize it and make it better - someone helped me at one point to put pics on there - 5 random watermelon pics - but i want to change them and well, i don’t even know how to upload the pics, etc…

  truthfully - i don’t want to be a cutline pro. i just wanna cook and blog!!!

  anyway - we could get together via emails or phone for a tutorial and i could pay you for your time? since it’s your baby and you know all the ins and outs - well, it’d be amazing if you were willing… please feel free to comment on a post - any post - on my blog and then i could contact you back from there. please? pretty please???

  much appreciated…

• 114 Need Help // Oct 31, 2007 at 10:33 pm

  Something is wrong - I download your file and then replaced the existing header.php with the new one. However, nothing happens except the the existing picture is presented too small. What am I doing wrong?

• 115 publicidad en internet en mexico // Nov 3, 2007 at 2:09 pm

  Cutline theme is awesome. All is working perfectly in my blog.

  Claudia, why don’t you visit the forums to get some help. Or read carefully the posts, you will find answers to all your questions.

• 116 rahmi // Dec 11, 2007 at 8:32 am

  Thanks so much for this Chris. I was wondering tho, after I uploaded the random header file, my blog description is gone?

  I noticed that its missing the “bloginfo(’description’);” on the random page, is this why?

  How do I add my description back? Thanks!

• 117 Stephanie // Dec 13, 2007 at 8:07 pm

  For that guy and whoever else who have uploaded the new header.php and are baffled because your pic is the wrong size - go into the code and change the image width at the very end of the page from 770 to 970 - the Cutline 3-column split uses a wider header. xo.

• 118 ark // Dec 18, 2007 at 5:13 am

  omg, it very useful, i been searching for this random thing, THANK !!!
  If i using the random function on other area also can, it not need to be at that header.php?

• 119 Andy // Dec 19, 2007 at 11:47 am

  Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information …

• 120 Cherie // Jan 13, 2008 at 2:42 pm

  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…

  And I lost track. Cutline is the template I’ve been looking for for a long time. I love how neat, clean and readable it is. I love the fact that you have a tutorial AND a forum.

  I am such a computer dummy when it comes to all the technicalities of websites. I just love that there is a place I can get answers so that I can optimize my site.

  Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU!

  BTW: Did I say I appreciate all the on-line help?

• 121 Leif // Feb 12, 2008 at 1:28 pm

  Please help me with my header images. All I get is the white box with the little red x and no photo.

  The random header file is working correctly (when I right click on the header, it says header_1.jpg, and when I click refresh and then right click on the header, it shows header_5.jpg, so I know it’s working). Just can’t get the photos to appear. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve re-ftp’d the images and chmod’d them.

  I had the random header photos working perfectly back in November, but my host physically moved their servers from one city to another city, and since then the photos won’t appear. Coincidence?

  I’ve reduced the size of the header image to 240 x 30 just so it doesn’t look bad to visitors.

  Thank you for your help! I love cutline.

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• 123 Bear // Feb 21, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  I am experiencing the identical situation as Leif above. Please help me out. Thank you so much for the excellent theme. I am learning a great deal.

• 124 Andrew Hinton // Feb 21, 2008 at 6:40 pm

  FYI the new(er) random header file doesn’t have the custom.css reference in it.
  btw thanks for a great theme

• 125 P // Feb 23, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  Hi, great theme !

  Am trying something new with the random header images. It should be able to fit 7 images that are 140×140 pixels big. Now I’d like the header to pick 7 of these images at random and stack them next to one another covering the whole width of 980.
  I’ve come to this so far:

  <img src=”/images/.jpg” width=”140″ height=”140″ alt=” random header image” >
  <img src=”/images/.jpg” width=”140″ height=”140″ alt=” random header image” >
  <img src=”/images/.jpg” width=”140″ height=”140″ alt=” random header image” >
  <img src=”/images/.jpg” width=”140″ height=”140″ alt=” random header image” >
  <img src=”/images/.jpg” width=”140″ height=”140″ alt=” random header image” >
  <img src=”/images/.jpg” width=”140″ height=”140″ alt=” random header image” >

  But the code doesn’t put the images next to one another but underneath each other.. What do I need to change to get this going ?

• 126 P // Feb 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  Hmm, the code doesn’t appear like I put it..

• 127 Paul Hamilton // Mar 2, 2008 at 6:16 pm

  Hi, I wonder if someone can answer my question ? Firstly love the theme Cris, I have commented out the origional 5 themes with the help of a small tutorial video. I then produced a new header which was saved as a jpg. The problem I have is I have no idea how to turn the header file into a php script so I am able to paste the script into the header editor, or if there is another way to perform this task even better As you can probably tell all this is very new to me.
  If anyone is able to help that would be great.

  Thanks,

  Paul.

• 128 A // Mar 14, 2008 at 8:09 pm

  I just installed the random image header for Cutline, but like a few others above, I have a 3 column cutline theme going. I changed the width to show as 970, but it’s still showing as a two column photo and knocking out my third column. Any advice?

• 129 A // Mar 14, 2008 at 8:22 pm

  I’ve managed to increase the width of the photo, but it’s still knocking out my third column.

• 130 A // Mar 14, 2008 at 8:23 pm

  Nor is it randomized.
  Is there a place I get get the original header.php file if I want to switch it back.
  I know I should have saved the code…but this is all a little over my head.
  Sorry for all the posts as well….

• 131 Herman // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  How do I just use one header image?

• 132 Anouncing MrWeller.com | MrWeller.com // Mar 30, 2008 at 11:51 pm

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• 133 Charles // Apr 4, 2008 at 10:21 am

  EXCELLENT!

• 134 Exploring The Internet // Apr 21, 2008 at 4:15 pm

  I really like your theme - Cutline. I just customized my header images. You’ve provided tremendous support for this theme. Thanks! Referring your article here:

  http://mycoolonlinestores.com/blog/interested-in-how-to-change-your-header-images.html

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