The Stallion Responsive Theme includes two built in header areas, these can be turned on/off independently of each other meaning you can have a WordPress blog with. Header area 1 (Stallion 2011 Header Area) Header area 2 (Alternative Stallion Header Area) 2 header entire areas (looks rubbish) Combination of the two (half of one, half of the other). No header areas This gives the Stallion Responsive theme users full control over how their WordPress blogs header area behaves and it’s all controlled by a few clicks of the mouse. Stallion Theme Header Areas Under “Stallion Theme” >> “Layout Options” : “Stallion Header Areas” you will find the following options that turn the header areas on/off: Each of the two WordPress […]
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WordPress Custom Banners and Headers Do Not show Up
I have created cookware related banners and headers and I uploaded them by using the upload tool in the cPanel, WP content.
However, when I go into WP-admin, I anot able to set up the customezid header and banners. They do not show up on the page when I select them.
Do I need to use an FTP to upload?
Please take a look and advise what I need to do. I am stuck here with the creation of my MPP.
Thx,
Lum
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Your login details removed for security reasons! Never a good idea to add your username/passwords etc… to an open comment system anyone can read, fortunately as it was your first comment it was held in moderation so only I saw it.
David
WordPress Custom Banners and Headers Do Not show Up
How to Install Custom WordPress Banners and Headers
If you put the banner images under wp-content that’s the wrong folder.
They go under your themes folder
Banners:
Headers
With the filename as described in the tutorial above.
If you do multiple sets of banners use
For your second set and 03 for the third and so on.
You don’t have to use FTP, if your control panel allows you to upload images to the above folders you can use the CPanel.
Make sure you use the filename formats described in the tutorials,
Banners are: landscape-1.jpg, landscape-2.jpg etc…
Headers are: c1.jpg, c2.jpg or c1.gif, c2.gif
David
How to Install Custom WordPress Banners and Headers
WordPress Custom Banners not Working
The headers are working, but the banners do not.
I spent time today with tech support at HostGator and confirmed that I uploaded properly the banners. They could not help me further and sent me back to you.
I gave you my login info so that you can see what I have done and find out what is wrong.
Please take a look and advise what I need to do.
Thx,
WordPress Custom Banners not Working
WordPress Custom Banners Probably in Wrong Directory or Filenames
Don’t need to login to you site to know what you’ve done wrong.
If you had uploaded the images to the custom-01 folder images would be available under that folder.
The image doesn’t load therefore you can’t have confirmed you uploaded the images correctly.
This 100% confirms the correct images are not in the custom-01 folder and your server is working correctly regarding showing images.
You’ve either not uploaded the images to the /wp-content/themes/stallion-seo-theme/landscape/custom-01/ folder or you named your banner images incorrectly.
Make sure they have the correct naming format landscape-1.jpg and they are in the /custom-01/ folder. When you think you have it right check if it loads your first image you got it right, if not try again.
I can’t confirm either of these by logging into your site (the WordPress Dashboard doesn’t list server contents), you will need to use FTP or your control panel to confirm the files are the right names and in the right location.
David
WordPress Custom Banners Probably in Wrong Directory or Filenames
Delicate WordPress Theme Design
Working on new colour designs to add to the next update, have one loosely based on a WordPress theme called Delicate that’s currently the top download (over 11,000 downloads) in the Free WordPress theme repository.
It’s currently running at my Make Money Online Blog as a custom colour scheme: you can add your own custom style sheets (CSS files) and select them via “Stallion >> Colour Options”.
The Stallion Delicate WordPress Theme Design is a clean white colour scheme, smaller text sizes than the other Stallion 6.1 theme colours and a few new images.
To achieve this required creating one CSS file and a few images. Basically made a copy of the Stallion Simple 2 CSS file (style-simple2.css) and changed it’s name to style-custom-01.css, edited a relatively small amount of the CSS within (probably less than 5% changed). Uploaded the stylesheet to
and images to
and selected the “Custom 01” under “Stallion >> Colour Options : Stallion Theme Colour”.
This new colour scheme can utilize all the built in Stallion 6.1 features, the 9 layouts for the sidebars, everything, so it’s better than the Delicate WordPress theme :-) it’s loosely based on.
That’s how easy it is to create a custom colour scheme for Stallion 6.1+.
In the next Stallion update I’ll incorporate the new colour scheme directly into the Stallion zip file. If you’d like to try this new Delicate colour scheme before it’s added to the next Stallion update download this zip file:
Update: Zip no longer needed, Stallion 6.2 released.
Extract and find and upload the /wp-content/ folder within to the root of your site using FTP. If you have WordPress installed in a sub-directory upload the extracted /wp-content/ folder there (basically find where your /wp-content/ folder is and upload there).
The zip file only contains a handful of files (one CSS file and so doesn’t overwrite any of your current files (assuming you haven’t added a Custom 01 style already).
When Stallion is updated above 6.1 you will not need these files. When you update to Stallion 6.2 via the built in Stallion theme updater for example you’ll have to change the “Stallion >> Colour Options : Stallion Theme Colour” setting to whatever I call this colour option (probably “Stallion Delicate”).
David
Delicate WordPress Theme Design
Coraline WordPress Theme Colour Design
Another free Stallion colour scheme loosely based on a WordPress theme called Coraline that’s currently one of the top downloads in the Free WordPress theme repository.
The Stallion Coraline WordPress Theme Design is a clean white colour scheme.
This new colour scheme can utilize all the built in Stallion 6.1 features, the 9 layouts for the sidebars, everything, so it’s better than the Coraline WordPress theme :-) it’s loosely based on.
In the next Stallion update I’ll incorporate the new colour scheme directly into the Stallion zip file. If you’d like to try this new Coraline colour scheme before it’s added to the next Stallion update download this zip file:
Update: built into Stallion 6.2, zip no longer needed.
Extract and find and upload the /wp-content/ folder within to the root of your site using FTP. If you have WordPress installed in a sub-directory upload the extracted /wp-content/ folder there (basically find where your /wp-content/ folder is and upload there).
The zip file only contains a handful of files (one CSS file and so doesn’t overwrite any of your current files (assuming you haven’t added a Custom 02 style already).
When Stallion is updated above 6.1 you will not need these files. When you update to Stallion 6.2 via the built in Stallion theme updater for example you’ll have to change the “Stallion >> Colour Options : Stallion Theme Colour” setting to whatever I call this colour option (probably “Stallion Coraline”).
David
Coraline WordPress Theme Colour Design
Add a Logo to Website
Hi, How do I add a logo to the website in the Stallion Theme?
Custom WordPress Header Images
There are two types of headers available with Stallion with both you can add custom images, see Stallion Theme Header Image Options for how to set them up.
David
WordPress Background Colors
Backgroud color under: Appearence>backgound>colors set it to something like #DBD8B0 does not seem to show up. I am on the Tallian theme design. Maybe it is something silly I am not doing.
There is a lot of flexibility with your theme. Basically you can make it look like whatever you like if you use background images or custom pages.
WordPress Background Color Option
Although the WordPress “Appearance” >> “Background” options page (WordPress core feature BTW) is active in Stallion the “Background Color” option is overwrote by the Stallion background gradients CSS code. So the inline CSS is loaded, but because there’s the gradient CSS code it doesn’t show.
I’m using the “Appearance” >> “Background” options page for the background image upload, if I could easily disable the “Background Color” option I would, but it’s WordPress core code so not easy to remove.
If you did want to use the “Background Color” feature you’d edit the Stallion CSS file you are using and remove 4 lines of CSS, in style-delicate.css for example it’s lines 8 to 11
Best way to do this so you don’t loose customisations if you want this control is make a copy of the CSS file like style-delicate.css and name it style-custom-01.css and remove those lines of CSS, copy over the images from the folder /stallion-seo-theme/images/delicate/ to /stallion-seo-theme/images/custom-01/ and select “Custom 01” under “Stallion >> Colour Options : Stallion Theme Colour”.
I don’t like adding too much inline CSS which is why there’s currently no way to select your own colours in Stallion, to have the ability to say change 20 colours means adding at least 20 lines of inline css. Each css file includes over 50 lines of colours, so to have the ability to control them all would mean 50+ lines of code adding inline! And this would only change the colours, not font sizes of font types.
David
BTW Got your email about your comment going to SPAM, my comment (this one) and the last comment I made here also went straight to SPAM (added this BTW just before approving my own comment after UNSPAMMING it)! So on my own bloody site my comments are going to SPAM!!! Also all the recent comments (at least 7 now) Akismet has SPAMMED. Looks like either Akismet is playing up or my site is. Will have to check my other sites Akismet SPAM folders, that’s a lot of false positives even for the make money online type niche.
WordPress Background Color Option
Changing Website Text Color
David, I am a real newbie and this will probably seem to be a dumb question but at this point I prefer not to stumble around various files, settings pages, and so forth trying to fix what I see as a visibility issue with my site. At the very top where there is now a grey color inserted where would I go to change this to some shade of green?
Also, how do I access the color option for the site title and tag line? The current white text doesn’t show up well at all, and I would think either black text or something else much more visible would work much better.
Can you guide me through this ‘maze’?
Thanks in advance
Richard
Changing Website Text Color
Stallion Theme Colour Settings
Your site is currently not working, so not sure what the issue is.
Might be the header images, some are grey.
There’s a tutorial at Stallion Header Image Options.
Try setting “Header Image Off” under “Stallion >> Colour Options”
If that removes the grey turn it back on and play around with the “Header Image” setting below (or keep it off if you don’t want a header image at all), there’s over 20 images available with Stallion and you can upload your own.
There’s no built in ability to change the font colours for a particular colour scheme, would require editing css files, which one depends on the colour scheme you are using.
LMK when it’s working again and I’ll take a look.
David
Stallion Theme Colour Settings