Animated graphics header: is possible? WordPress

Jeff Owens answers:

Open the file "style.css" which is in your /wp-content/themes/classic2010 folder. You can open it in Notepad or a similar text editor.

Look for a section that looks like this:
div.Header-jpeg
{
position: absolute;
z-index:-1;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 1260px;
height: 225px;
<code>background-image: url('images/Header.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
}</code>

You'll need to put the animated gif file into /wp-content/themes/classic2010/images/ folder and the image should be 1260px wide by 225px in height. Name the picture whatever you want, but replace the:

background-image: url('images/Header.jpg');

section with your new name. So if your file was named "new_header.gif", you would enter:
background-image: url('images/new_header.gif');

Save the file and you should be good to go!

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Ali Hussain answers:

Download the plugin [[LINK href="http://kimili.com/plugins/kml_flashembed/wp"]]here[[/LINK]]. To use this plugin, upload it to your plugins directory and activate it from plugins menu. Then go to your header.php file in themes directory and replace the header code with the following code –

[kml_flashembed movie="/path/to/your/movie.swf" height="value" width="value" /]

Of course, replace the values with the actual height and width, and the path to the URL where you've saved the swf file.

BTW, this code can be used any place, header/sidebar/footer etc

Also you can use gif, like mentioned above.

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Dan Fraticiu answers:

If you want a gif file, see Jeff's answer , but really an anymated gif that size is a <strong>REALLY, REALLY, BAD IDEEA</strong>.

For flash: get your flash file, put it in your theme folder and rename it to <strong>header.swf</strong>.

Now go to your header.php files in the theme folder, find this line:

<div class="Header-jpeg"></div>

An put this between the <div > tags:


<div class="Header-jpeg">
<!--[if !IE]> -->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="<?php echo get_bloginfo('template_url').'/header.swf'; ?>" width="1260px" height="225">
<!-- <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE]>

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="1260px" height="225">

<param name="movie" value="<?php echo get_bloginfo('template_url').'/header.swf'; ?>" />
<!--><!--dgx-->
<param name="loop" value="true" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<p>This is alternative content.</p>
</object>
<!-- <![endif]-->
</div>


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