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Today I switched over to the new default template of Wordpress 3: Twenty Ten. I really like it. It’s clean, pretty flexible and very close to the Cutline template which I used before.

Twenty Ten allows you to choose either one of their default header images or you can upload one of your own. I don’t like having a static header image, I prefer seeing a different image with each new page load. Luckily, this can be achieved very easily by installing this plugin by HungryCoder: Twenty Ten Header Rotator. Once installed and activated it will rotate over all default header images plus the custom header image which you eventually uploaded by yourself.

Using Your Own Images

Though the default images are really nice, I would like to display my own images instead. Now, this needs a little bit more handiwork.

First, you need to create a couple of images with a width of 940 pixels and a height of 198 pixels. Now upload these images e.g. to themes/twentyten/images/myheaders.

Next, open functions.php and search for “register_default_headers”. You’ll find an array with all default images. Either add your own images additionally to the default ones or replace the default images. I decided for deleting the default images.

The code should look similar to this:

register_default_headers( array(
	'1' => array(
		'url' => '%s/images/headers/1.JPG',
		'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/myheaders/1.JPG',
		'description' => __( '1', 'twentyten' )
	),
	'2' => array(
		'url' => '%s/images/headers/2.JPG',
		'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/myheaders/2.JPG',
		'description' => __( '2', 'twentyten' )
	)
	// add more images here.	
) );

Note, that I’m using the same URL for the regular image URL and the thumbnail URL. That messes up the Header admin page a little but I can live with that…

The new version of Wordpress, 2.9, brings us some basic image editing which turns out to be really handy:

Thanks for that feature!

W3 Total Cache is _the_ perfect plugin if you want to speed up your Wordpress installation. It comes with whole bunch of cool features, some of the most important ones are:

• Javascript and CSS minifier
• gzipper
• Caching through memcached or ACP
• Easy usage of CDN’s

For now I’m just using the Minifier and gzipper for this blog, but that even helped to improve the page performance from C to A according to YSlow:

Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich die Software dieses Blogs, Wordpress, auf Version 2.5.1 aktualisiert. Beim Schreiben den letzten Posts (Pastellfarben) hatte ich Schwierigkeiten beim Uploaden eines Bildes:
Der neue Flash-Uploader schaffte es zum einen nicht das Bild wirklich hochzuladen und brachte zum anderen den Browser (Firefox 3 RC2) zum Absturz.

Unter Googles vielen Suchergebnissen fand ich diesen am hilfreichsten:
How to fix Wordpress Image / Media Uploader

Er verweist auf ein No-Flash-Plugin, welches den Flash-Uploader einfach deaktiviert. Der Upload erfolgt anschließend mittels eines traditionellen Upload-Formulars, das zwar nicht so schön ist, aber zumindest funktioniert.

Ambitioniertere Anwender als ich finden unter anderem auf folgender Seite Vorschläge das Problem zu lösen: Image/Media Upload problems