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I want to change the height of the Header image

  1. rolandbenedetti
    Member

    I tried to change the CSS as follow

    #branding img {
    height: 210px;;
    margin-bottom: -7px;
    width: 100%;
}

    and to upload a new header image which is 210px but the rendering keeps the HTML attributes at 288px and my image is resized and very ugly. Any tips how to just change the height of the image and use an image that is not rescaled?

    The blog I need help with is crakette.wordpress.com.

  2. rolandbenedetti
    Member

    I forgot, I am using Twenty Eleven theme (and Custom Design)

  3. timethief
    Member

    The good news is that there is Staff support for the custom design upgrade if and when you choose to purchase the upgrade. The bad news is you will have to wait for them to help you as the support link is not available until at 12PM UTC on Monday 4th July.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

    When you alter a theme’s stylesheet, you only need to put in the Editor the modification/additions to the CSS, not the entire thing. Read this for more info:
    http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/

  4. rolandbenedetti
    Member

    Thx #timethief
    I did subscribed to the custom design, so it is good to know there is a support with it!

  5. thesacredpath
    Member

    We need a link to the site you are talking about. The one linked to your username is wearing Inuit Types.

    In general, once you change either dimension on a header, or you change the width of the theme, you can no longer use the header uploader in the dashboard since it will always use the original dimensions. From that point forward you have to use a background declaration in the CSS to add a header image.

  6. rolandbenedetti
    Member

    Hi,

    I will just close, because in the end, I used a very ugly workaround > I put my header in the background itself but it works. It's of course very bad for SEO but I dont necessarilly care a lot about SEO on this site.

    But I think your answer is making sens, and in line with advices from timethief > if you use custom css on header, forget about the header uploader!

    Thanks a lot

  7. timethief
    Member

    @rolandofurioso
    Did you see what thescaredpath asked for? He's a Volunteer and one of the few who help with CSS. He needs to see the blog you are customizing. Please post an active link starting with http:// to the site you are talking about. The one linked to your username is wearing Inuit Types.

  8. rolandbenedetti
    Member

    Hi, thanks so much!

    Yes I saw, the site was http://crakette.wordpress.com/
    but as I explained I moved my header image in the background itself and disabled header images, and it is working somehow for what I want to achieve ... I'll stick to that for now and continue my research on resizing headers in twenty eleven later :-)

  9. timethief
    Member

    Thanks for posting the URL. :)
    If you would like to link your username to your blog s those who are helping you can immediately locate it that's easily done. Dashboard -> Users -> Personal Settings -> then scroll down to Account Details. Then scroll down to where it says ‘Website‘ select the URL for your primary wordpress.com blog and then save changes. :)

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