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
Using custom fields to create archive thumbnails
When I launched this site, I was instantly jumped on by Ruark asking me how I achieved the thumbnails on the home & archive pages of this site. This can be done in a number of simple ways and with a bit of imagination, you can take it to a much greater level. So use this article to understand the basics and then you can decide how best to implement these methods.
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…
