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jbhelfrich, this is exactly what I am trying to do. Did you have any joy in setting this up?

I actually want to feed two blogs and a forum to a third blog–a central point–where all my clients and contacts can go to get the information from the other three entities.

Does anyone have any brilliant ideas how to do this with WP?

Any clue as to how to get this plugin to play nicely with randomly ascribed database names on the same server?

I’ve corrected the error at the bottom of the script. I’ve plugged in all the “right” information, but it keeps rejecting the forum database name for some reason. Did anyone have to put their database name and password in to make this thing work?

My sidebar looks ridiculous with the WordPress error riding along in it. ?? Thanks.

Hey, thanks for the help.

It took 4 hours of messing, but I finally implimented something along the lines of what you suggested. The search bar cuts into the image at the moment, but I might tweak with that.
I actually had to call 3 images for the head to look the way it was–the icon left image; the black background; and the right photo. I even got a rotate script to change the second image on reload.

Now I just have to get back my page links list, which I had to pull because it wouldn’t sit in the black area between the photos under the blog name. Any ideas?

Thanks a million! Happy New Year!

Erin, If you just rename notesgreen, acorns2.gif and drop it in the same place it should change it for the whole site–if that’s what you want. You should extract acorn2.gif and copy the size and parameters for that file in your notesgreen file or things can get wonky.
I changed the acorns on my blog in one swell foop this way, but decided to change them back as the acorns somehow just look better. . . .

All the best.

That sounds great, and do-able, but I’m not quite sure how to make it fit in with this in the header:
<div id="header">
<div id="headerimg">
<div id="searchdiv">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</div>
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>

Calling up this in the css:

#headerimg {
padding-left: 180px;
margin: 3px;
height: 250px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #061506;
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color: #fff;
font-size:150%;
font-weight:bold;
background: #061506 url("images/icon.jpg") no-repeat left;
background-position: 1%

I tried to add an #headerimg02 to the css and call it in the header.php, but couldn’t swing it without wiping everything out. I’m seriously modding this template, so each thing I tinker with throws lots of stuff off.

Thanks again for any help.

Hey. . .Wait. . .I’m in this same boat, but clueless as to how to resolve it.
I’ve got: #headerimg {
padding-left: 180px;
margin: 3px;
height: 250px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #061506;
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color: #fff;
font-size:150%;
font-weight:bold;
background: #061506 url("images/icon.jpg") no-repeat left;
background-position: 1%
}

and I need to add another image on the right–about a 400X200 one and I need to call it from the header.php:
<div id="header">
<div id="headerimg">
<div id="searchdiv">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</div>
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
</div>
</div>

Can anyone help me figure out where to fit in the second image and how to call it in the header? I’ve spent hours screwing around on this and it’s doing my head in. Thanks.