I’ve had a recent request regarding a popular tweak for WordPress – that is, to add custom page header images to any page in WordPress. There are one or two plugins that do this, but with a bit of creativity you can accomplish this very easily using WordPress custom fields and it’s built in image uploader. Here’s how:
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Custom header images for WordPress Pages
Simpler code & styling with conditional tags
WordPress provides an awesome way of minimizing the extra coding you might have to do on each template that you create. You’ll more than likely have a slightly different way of styling your page.php, single.php and archive.php. Thus on each of those templates you’d have to add a different class or id in order to edit the styling in your CSS. Here’s how you can make this a much simpler process…
Creating dynamic WordPress page titles
In the interests of having a simple, easy to use Wordpress theme structure, template tags like get_header, get_sidebar and get_footer make our lives very simple. Some creative coding is needed however, when it comes to having only 1 header.php that serves 4 or 5 templates. Thus, here I’ll explain a few tips to having a nicely dynamic header.
