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Customizing your graphics
By Mike | April 23, 2007
This is a continuation of the question asked yesterday.
I’m new to blogging with WP. I want to know how to quickly modify a theme template and edit a plug-in without being a geek-nerd
Yesterday I talked about changing themes and more importantly picking the right theme which is the key if you don’t want to be playing in the theme templates and CSS files.
Today lets talk about changinng the header which is the most common change people make.
You can find the header graphic by going into the following file structure -
wp-content/themes/youtheme name/img/
Now the img may be images depending on the theme author. In that image folder there should be the current image file for the theme. Most times it is called header.gif or jpg but it may be something similar like bg_header.gif.
The last one I did it actually had a name of hr02.jpg so it won’t necessarily have the word header in the image name but it usually does. If you find a theme where it is not it is still easy to find. It will most likely be the largest image in the folder. Check the file size and the biggest one is usually the one you want.
You can double check in a browser by calling the file directly and make sure it is the one you want. To see the header in a browser it would look like
http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/img/image name.gif or jpg
Obviously if your blog is in a folder and not in the top level you would need to add that.
Once I have the right file I outsource the rest. For me I download the image and email it to the guy who does my graphics with a few notes on what I would like it to look like. A day or two later I get a new image in my email. I save it then ftp it up to replace the original image and I am almost done.
By sending him the original I get back the exact size image I need and as some of the images for headers may be different sizes this save us both time.
The final step is to turn the options for the title and tag line off if I added them to the image. Now if you do graphics then you can save the email step and just do it yourself.
However, for this Old Bald Guy I don’t do graphics and don’t want to learn so I’ll keep a good relationship with Tim Whiston and let him do all my graphics. You can check out his site here.
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