Now you can add custom headers to your categories with this brand new plugin.
This plugin requires the Twentyten theme.
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Features
- Show custom headers for different categories on your site.
- Show on category and single posts.
- Still keep your main header for other posts/pages.
Configuration
Simply activate the plugin, add your image URLs to the Adv. Headers page under the Appearance menu, click save and you are done!
Development
No active development at this current time. You can find this project on WordPress.org until the two year deprecation, in which time, it will be removed.
I love what this plugin is supposed to do – but, does it support .gif files or any extensions other than .jpg? I’m not having any luck with an animated .gif.
Oops, ignore that…the animated gif works just fine. It was my fault. I hadn’t set the category correctly on the page I was testing. Now, I have a really simple solution for selling rotating banner space and for creating a dynamic header for my home page – YAY!!
Ryan
Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I am using the twentyten theme. I’ve experimented a bit more and I think I know what is happening. My posts belong to more than one category. The advanced headers seems to choose the image corresponding to the first category of the first post that appears on that page. I did not expect it to work like that. I expected it to use the image of the category selected in the menu.
Since that isn’t a desired response, I will see what I can do to get it to behave differently. Sorry
Ryan
Your twentyten advanced headers fits my needs perfectly.
I have about 10 “category pages” (pages that present a specific category of posts using the menu facility in twentyten). I wanted a different header for each. So your plugin was perfect. But when I installed and tried it out, I hit a snag. Let me explain.
I installed and activated using the plugin admin. That seemed to work fine. Then I added a URL to 2 of my categories just to test it out and it worked fine on those pages. But I noticed that it was causing unexpected results on other category pages. In particular, the image I had used on one category appeared on the next category where I had left the URL blank. I also found that a number of the other blank category pages no longer had any header image at all.
So I tried specifying the default header as a URL for all the other categories (to make sure I had no blank categories). That fixed the problem of missing and wrong header but now it no longer shows new header image on the two categories I had changed. It just reverted to the default.
I do have other non-category pages where I have specified a “feature image” and they are still working fine. It is just the “category pages” that aren’t working as hoped.
I’m on a server running WP 3.3.1. My twentyten theme has very few tweaks (one tiny change to the CSS and two small changes to PHP to change text labels).
Any advice would be appreciated.
You are using the twentyten theme? I have not tested it against the twentyeleven theme. I haven’t checked against 3.3.1 yet. I will see about doing some checks and find out if I can see any problems.
Sorry it’s not working for you
Hi Ryan!
i’m trying to resize the advanced header for 500×300 and i had try various ways to achieve this goal but none seems to work … i believe you know how to!
thanks!
Theo
Right now the theme twentyten only allows for headers that are 940×198. If you try to alter it, it won’t register quite right. You might have to do some fine grain manipulation of the plugin in order to achieve this. Also, if you are not using the twentyten theme, it won’t work properly with the plugin.