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Hi Matt - I can see how you can change the background image and the logo in Atahualpa (and I replied to the forum), but how to change the rotator images? It used to be that you just uploaded an image to your media files with the same naming convention, but now they seem to abandoned that method. I can look at this later today (I've got to go out right now), but I am a little stumped on this one.

Not sure. Boone? Chris?

The documentation makes it look like the old method has been abandoned, but a look at the code suggests otherwise. It looks like the theme should look in your uploaded files (Dashboard > Media) for files named atahualpa_header_X, where X is an integer.

Has anyone actually tested this?

Hi Boone - yeah, in the code it still seems to look for the images in the upload folders first, but I've tried using that naming convention (atahualpa_header_1, atahualpa_header_2, atahualpa_header_3...), but they never get picked up. At first I thought it was because the files were .JPG rather than .jpg, but I tried png, jpg, and jpeg extensions, but none of them seemed to work. Also tried creating a completely new blog with that theme, but didn't work either.

You rock, Boone.

But you knew that already.

Scott -- If this is indeed resolved and released, can you update the WordPress Help! thread on the topic? Please point them to this ticket and to Boone's update post on the Dev blog, and please explain the fix. Many thanks!

Most importantly, explain how to make the personalized header actually work. Upload files at Dashboard > Media with the right naming schema, etc.

Hi Scott,

I just saw that you posted to that thread, but it doesn't look like you have yet revealed that we resolved the issue. Please do so when you have a chance and explain to people how to make the image headers work. thank you!

Matt

Yes, I don't think the issue is totally resolved - though it's a hundred times closer! The images from the download folder are now getting displayed - but as Aaron notes (and I've confirmed), they are getting randomly "scaled" - so, for example - in my sandbox blog, I have just two images - but they appear in random widths (and actually overlay each other sometimes). It's weird. I tried to see if there was a setting that does this - but didn't see it.

Sorry - here's a link to what I'm talking about http://sandboxdescott.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Scott -- according to your posts on the WordPress Help!! group, it sounds like this problem isn't actually resolved. Can you explain?

Hi - When pulling images from WP upload folders, the images now appear in the rotator slideshow, but they are for some reason randomly re-sized - very odd. See http://sandboxdescott.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
I wonder if it's because the images are not identically sized? One is 600x322, and the other is 600x90. But it was happening on just one image on Aaron's blog, taking the same image and scaling back and forth. I will look some more - but have to go to work now.

Sounds great. Also, if the user just wants a static page, there are other ways to do it. Thanks for your help!

One thing I noticed in this seemingly endless saga - once you create images in your upload folder, with that naming convention - they seem to be with you forever. It seems like they get moved to the other folder (like Shawn mentioned)? I was looking into Rowena's issue, and I thought I could just delete all my header images and go back to the defaults, but it seems like once you take the plunge, you're kind of married to supplying those images. They remain with you, and its not a caching issue. I switched browsers, and they were still there. Probably not really an issue, but rather an interesting feature of Atahualpa.