Kubrick: Theme Options overriding custom header

  • Greetings,

    Problem:
    I changed the header colors in the “Current Theme Options” menu and my custom header image no longer displays.

    Site: https://www.theplacebo.net if you’re curious

    Attempts to resolve:
    Perused themes/default/ files, but could not find any changed code. Searched wordpress support and found one unresolved entry, from November 2005, related to this problem (Note the topic number): https://mu.www.ads-software.com/forums/topic/666 Googled to no avail. Thought about reinstalling, but would really rather know the whys and hows.

    Background:
    I just installed WP 2.0 for a non-profit org that unexpectedly lost their site. Because the new site needed to be up ASAP, I went with the Default theme (Kubrick) and just altered or replaced the images, most noticeably the header image. I’ve not activated any plug-ins and have made only minor changes in header.php, sidebar.php, and style.css.

    Everything was working splendidly when I decided to play around with the “Current Theme Options”. Why? a) because, apparently, I’m an idiot and b) I was, wrongly, thinking of the “Revert” button as more of a “return to default settings” button. All of the Kubrick files were non-writable (permissions: 644) at the time of the change.

    More information available, of course, upon request. Thank you kindly in advance for any assistance.

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  • Thread Starter drogheda

    (@drogheda)

    I wouldn’t call this resolved, but I have a temporary goofy fix in place: through viewing source, I found out that header-img.php in the themes/default/images folder is responsible for the image overlay produced when one uses the Theme Options panel for Kubrick. (Knowing that, I still couldn’t find useful info in the codex, wp support forums, or by googling.)Since deleting header-img.php does nothing and I don’t know where the image overlay data is stored, I just removed the not(!) from the if statement at the beginning of the script, thus causing the script to die and default to my custom header image.

    if ( function_exists('imagecreatefromjpeg') )
    die(header("Location: placebo_wpheader.gif"));

    This is obviously a kludge and if anyone has a real solution, I’d like to hear it. I’ll revisit the problem when I’m over this evil headcold and maybe it’ll make more sense then.

    Taking out the ‘not’ statement worked for me. And with all of the frustrations of WP, I don’t really care why anymore.

    To override the custom Kubrick colors do the following:

    go to your functions.php file and towards the top you should see the following code:

    function kubrick_head() {
    $head = “<style type=’text/css’>\n<!–“;
    $output = ”;
    if ( kubrick_header_image() ) {
    $url = kubrick_header_image_url() ;
    $output .= “#header { background: url(‘$url’) no-repeat bottom center; }\n”;
    }

    Simply add this statement: kubrick_header_image()
    Inbetween the quotes in: $output = ”;

    The output line should now look like this: $output = ‘kubrick_header_image()’;

    And that’s it! Save and view your custom header image.

    I was reading this post and figured that the custom colors was definitely the issue, so I hovered my mouse over the Header Image and Color link in the Dashboard and saw it lead to the functions.php file, so I decided to play in there and blam!

    Have fun with your customer headers!!!

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