2.5 Kubrick Header Colors Can’t be Changed

Are you talking about the blue background in the header? If so, that’s a background image, and can’t be controlled by just changing the color in the WP editor.

The image is located in wp-content/default/images/kubrickheader.jpg (the image folder there contains the other background images for Kubrick as well).

Apologies if you meant changing the font color or something different.

Actually, that background color of the default theme’s header can be controlled through there.. It has special code in the theme to generate a gradient image on the fly.

I tried it on my test site just now and it worked okay.

Oh, I didn’t realize about the ability to control the gradient.

Here’s a video of it in action:
https://screencast.com/t/BkLtDYg4

mwshead: What kind of problems are you having with it? What does it do instead?

@otto. Are you on 2.5 and which browser/os are you using?

Yes, that is 2.5 and I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.13.

Here is a screencast showing what I’m seeing: https://s3.xeric.net/color-picker.mp4

@otto – What OS are you using?

mwshead: Looks like some kind of javascript or AJAX problem there. Do you have mod_security on your server? It could be blocking you. Search for mod_security in this forum to find out how to disabled it in .htaccess, then give that a shot, see if it helps.

Hm. mod_security is not listed as an enabled Apache module. But just to be sure I added:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>

to the .htaccess file in the root directory for the site. It didn’t fix the problem. Also the image upload and other Ajax functions seem to be working ok.

When I bring up the Error Console in Firefox and click on the button to bring up the color picker I get:

Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'top'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://www.site.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=functions.php&saved=true
Line: 0

I’m not sure if that is relevant or not.

When Safari is in debug mode I get:

Undefined value
https://www.site.com/wp-includes/js/colorpicker.js (line 374)

Line 374 is:

while (t.parentNode != null) {

I’m guessing that this doesn’t matter because the code is just checking to see if it is defined or not.

Hey
I don’t know if you still need help with this – but I had the same issue on my recent install of WordPress 2.5, and it turned out that the image functions provided by the GD library for PHP were missing – you may want to check that the GD library is installed for your particular install of PHP.

Once this is done, restarting your web server should get you up and running ??

Worked for me anyway!