Hey,
Been getting the fancy pictures you see above working.  Pretty simple really. There used to be a plugin for this in an older version of WordPress but it’s no longer available. So it was implemented the old-school way, rolling the sleeves up and getting elbow deep in some PHP hackery of wordpress. That’s what’s so brilliant about WP: something not working right? ; can’t find a plugin: just edit the html directly and put in your own PHP code to create that feature just the way you want it.

Anyway, I used Photoshop to put the frame round a picture, copying the frame from the ‘kubrickheader.jpg‘ image which is the standard banner for this theme.  Made quite a few of these, just putting random photos in, whatever makes it look good. Then I changed the code in header.php (wp-content/themes/default/) so that every time the page is loaded a random number is generated (between given values) and stored. The banners are all saved banner1.jpg, banner2 . . etc so I just made it that rather than load the default image, load the bannerx.jpg, where ‘x’ is the value of the random number we generated and saved.

The desired effect is that every time the page is re-loaded a different number is generated and appended onto the call to the banner draw, and thus a different pretty picture every time.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 at 10:09 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.