Lost my Header when Upgrading To Thesis 1.6

[Janice Dugas]

Hi all !

WP Thesis Theme 1.5 upgrade to 1.6 was a success per message I got in my Admin dashboard, but I lost my header during the process...pffff...

My blog (http://www.janicedugas.com) is now headerless!

Gee wiz.. :-(

Anyone has advice as to what I should do to get it back on ?

Thanks in advance!

Desperate...

[Janice Dugas]

In the meantime, I will type a BLOG TITLE and a TAGLINE in the General Settings
in the WP-Admin area, to at least have something showing up.

The header I had was a psd file.

And now, with the new designs options brought with the upgrade, I cannot see where the layout.css or stylesheet is located.

pffff..

[Eren Mckay]

Here is your header my friend:
http://www.janicedugas.com/images/photo_header_jdcom.jpg
simply save it to your computer and upload it.
Blessings :),
Eren

[Janice Dugas]

Thanks Eren !! Wow.... that was fast!

You recovered my .jpg image. Fantastic !! Merci beaucoup. :)

Saved it on my desk top and will upload to server in the Thesis 1.6 images/ folder .

Out of curiosity, where did you find it..or the path?

Take care my friend.

Talk soon.

[Eren Mckay]

Google hold a record of web pages- the word cached - means that's when the spiders came around a took a"picture" so to speak of it.
since it hadn't been too long since you changed i simply did a search in google with the words
site:janicedugas.com
then I clicked on the link where it says cached in the google results.
The older web page came up. I right clicked the image and selected view image.
that gave me the url of the image. Hope that helps :)
All the best,
Eren

[Janice Dugas]

Thanks Eren for the explanation. Great!

I tried to paste the code to the header image path into the custom.php file of Thesis but with no success.

After surfing on Internet & Thesis for help, finally downloaded the
Thesis Open Hook plugin to ease the process.

But still, did not succeed.

Grrrrr.....

Gives me this error on top of home page!

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/janicedugas.com/wp-content/plugins/thesis-openhook/functions.php(223) : eval()'d code on line 11


Any clue? to what I am doing wrong ?

pffff...

(would prefer spend time on the November challenge instead !!!)

Merci beaucoup and have a great day.

[Eren Mckay]

Dunno my friend.
Personally when a plugin gives me issues I delete that thing!! Usually it stops giving me errors after deleting.You need to make sure that your header space is the right size for the image or else it won't fit.
the header size can be configured in the style.css file.
Just go in an look for your header code and make it like this
#header {
width: 960px;
height: 200px;
(This is the size of your header.)
Make those changes, save upload. Make sure you have your image uploaded to the right place
hope that helps:cool:
Eren

[nar321]

Interesting, never thought of reverting to a default theme. Some customized themes have a upgrade option, which in most cases lags behind any WordPress upgrades. This means you have to wait till they upgrade there Theme. Needless to say this is one of the cons of getting a customized theme.

Did you check with the Thesis people before upgrading? What was the reason for upgrading? Doesn't this developer do upgrades to there Theme? How much help can you expect from your web host? Have you even checked with them?

[retta719]

hmm have you had any luck getting support from the Thesis folks about it? Maybe stop by their support forum and see if anyone else has had the same or a similar problem.

[balsimon]

Google hold a record of web pages- the word cached - means that's when the spiders came around a took a"picture" so to speak of it.
since it hadn't been too long since you changed i simply did a search in google with the words
site:janicedugas.com
then I clicked on the link where it says cached in the google results.
The older web page came up. I right clicked the image and selected view image.
that gave me the url of the image. Hope that helps :)
All the best,
Eren

I've used this technique myself, but never for this kind of purpose. Great thinking, Eren. Kudos.

- Bal

[Janice Dugas]

Interesting, never thought of reverting to a default theme. Some customized themes have a upgrade option, which in most cases lags behind any WordPress upgrades. This means you have to wait till they upgrade there Theme. Needless to say this is one of the cons of getting a customized theme.

Did you check with the Thesis people before upgrading? What was the reason for upgrading? Doesn't this developer do upgrades to there Theme? How much help can you expect from your web host? Have you even checked with them?

Hi Robert !:)

I agree with you. And it never dawned on me that upgrading from Thesis 1.5 to Thesis 1.6 ( WP paid theme) version would crash the custom settings that was applied previously when opening the blog.

Problem resides in the fact that these customized settings where not done in the "core" files. And if I understand correctly what they demonstrated about the new features of the upgrade, there will now be a way to avoid this situation for future upgrades. Confusing for me..but I guess it make sense for the teckies.

I did check into the DIY forum and posted questions and ask for help.

Read in the forum that by downloading WP Thesis Open Hook plugin , it would be a "breeze" to insert .php, .css, .html etc etc into any hooks of the Thesis theme. So I did that. Got the header up but not displaying perfectly. Took it off.

Afterwards, a reply came to my question suggesting that I do this:
___________


Janice, if you still have any header-related code in Thesis OpenHook, delete it. Then add this to your custom.css:

.custom #header #logo a {
display: block;
height: 180px;
width: 980px;
background:url('images/photo_header_jdcom.jpg') no-repeat;
outline: none;
}

.custom #header #logo, .custom #header #tagline {
text-indent: -9999px;
}
________________

Which i did.

The header is now up but nit displaying right.

Now gotta try to figure out how to make it fit in place neatly.

Pffff....

I think Eren dimensions will make it right. ( 960 x 200 ) Running off to try it out.

That's how we learn....right? ;)

Next time, I will follow Maggie's tip !

Many thanks Robert and also to Eren, Loretta and Maggie.

Talk soon.

[lindastacy]

Janice, I think the height and width in that bit of code you added to custom.css has to match the height and width of your logo. So if the image is 960x200 then put those numbers in the code.

By the way... is Maggie talking about switching to default theme when updating WordPress or when updating a theme? I don't know that switching to a default theme would make a difference when upgrading a theme. I've never upgraded a theme though, only switched themes, so that might be different.

Actually, I'm not sure it makes a difference when upgrading WP either, but I have to think about that. I think the only things that make a difference are 1) what files get over-written during an upgrade or 2) an incompatibility between WP versions and themes or plugins after upgrades.

For me the most important thing for any upgrade is to make sure everything is backed up so that you can revert to the old if necessary. And unless it's an upgrade for security reasons, I always wait at least a couple of weeks to upgrade so the developers have time to work out the bugs.

[Janice Dugas]

Janice, I think the height and width in that bit of code you added to custom.css has to match the height and width of your logo. So if the image is 960x200 then put those numbers in the code.



Thanks for your help Linda! :) Now, there is white space above and under the header.

In the Thesis forum, got a reply from member in regards to have theheader fit properly:


Originally Posted by pbarron View Post
If you mean the space above and below the header image, this should remove it entirely:

Code:

.custom #header {
padding-bottom:0;
padding-top:0;
}

.custom #header #tagline {
line-height:0;
}


Ouf....it worked :)

Back on track.

Merci. Talk soon.

[TheMenuMom]

Good for you for working hard to fix it! If I break my blog, I generally head over to http://www.desperatelyseekingwp.com/ and BEG for help! LOL (which they are great by the way if you ever do get really stuck!)

[Janice Dugas]

Good for you for working hard to fix it! If I break my blog, I generally head over to http://www.desperatelyseekingwp.com/ and BEG for help! LOL (which they are great by the way if you ever do get really stuck!)

Thanks so much for your good words and for the link. Jumping there right now...

Have a great day!