Michael Janzen

I got an email from Jason about how to edit the header height in my WordPress theme, Basic Simplicity.  I tired to reply but Jason’s email address was wrong so I thought I’d answer he question here since it could help other people control the look and feel of Basic Simplicity.

Here’s his question:

My question:  I’m trying to use my own header file but want the picture to be bigger.  I’ve rifled through the edit pages to see if I can change this but can’t find it.

Example:  Your comment says optimal size is 1000 x 140 and I want it to be 1000 x 300.  When I plug in my header picture it cuts off and remains 140.

Can you give me any tips?

The header height is actually not defined anywhere. The 140px I suggest on the admin screen is just a rough height for an image that would most likely fill the background of the header. The height is auto defined by the text that’s there. The image is a background image and is auto-positioned left and middle vertically.

To control the header height you could add this bit of custom code to your Custom CSS field on the admin form. Adjust the height with the pixel amount. The example is 80px.

#header{
min-height:80px;
height:auto !important;
height:80px;
}

Jason… I hope this helps!

The other day I submitted Basic Simplicity, my new WordPress theme, to the WordPress Free Themes Directory and it got approved today. You can see it in action on all my blogs.

It features a control panel that lets you edit colors on the fly, change the banner background image, add your Google Analytics code, and a bunch of other things. If you like it please give me a good rating

See Basic Simplicity at the Free Themes Directory

Here are a few of my blogs that use Basic Simplicity; you can see what a cameleon it can be.

• Tiny House Design (albeit somewhat modified)
• Do It Yourself Freedom
• Tiny Free House

I submitted my minimalist WordPress theme to the Free Theme Directory the other day and got a note back from them with a few suggestions. It didn’t take long to implement their recommended improvements and now Basic Simplicity 1.3 is available.

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I just uploaded the next version of basic simplicity, the WordPress theme I created. The biggest changes are the addition of four more widget areas (for a total of 10) to make it easy to add advertising to the top right and bottom of posts and pages.

I also added a mini-stylesheet to the bottom of the main stylesheet. This is bound to cause a little confusion so in the next iteration I’ll create a theme admin screen to allow quick color and style edits right in the WordPress interface.

• Visit My Theme Page