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Customization is a good thing. Several of the themes at WordPress.com feature an option which allows users to upload their very own custom image header to obtain a much more personalized look and feel. The use of this option is completely free, and you do not need to purchase the Custom Design upgrade in order to change your header (as long as you’re using one of the themes that includes the option, of course).
Uploading a Custom Header Image
Go to Appearance -> Header in your blog’s dashboard. If you do not see the option, this means that your current theme does not support the use of a custom image header. Please refer to the list of supported themes at the bottom of this page.

Browse for the file on your computer and click Upload. Only .jpeg, .gif, and .png files can be used. All cropped images will be converted to jpegs.
Important: Using an image of exactly the right size will produce the best results, and this is certainly recommended. To preserve transparency in an image use a .gif or .png image of exactly the right size.

If you uploaded an image that doesn’t match the exact dimensions of your current theme’s header, you will need to crop it accordingly.

Select the portion of the image that you’d like to use for the header, then click Crop and Publish.
Once you see the Header Updated message below, you can visit your site to see how your header image looks.
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The image should appear immediately. If it does not, please contact Support with the issue. Be sure to provide a detailed description of the header image that you attempted to upload and/or attach the image file so that we can take a closer look.
Other Options
Many of the themes have other customization options available to you. If you wish to remove the blog title (and tagline, if it appears) from the header, you can select No under the Display Text option on the Appearance -> Header page.

If you wish to maintain the blog title and tagline, you also have the option to change the text color. The Text Color option will do the trick.
Deleting Header Images
If you decide you want to delete one of your custom header images, you can do so by going to your
Media -> Library and clicking on “Delete Permanently” underneath the image.
Flexible Headers
For themes that support it, the Appearance -> Header page now uses a recommended size for headers rather than a required fixed size so you can use an image that is taller or shorter than the theme design allows. The goal is to update as many themes as possible on WordPress.com to support this feature. You can see current list of themes that support flexible headers by looking at the table below or the flexible header filter in the Theme Showcase.
Supported Themes
Here is the official, current listing of all themes that support custom header images, image dimensions, and the download link to the original header image (if there is one).
| Theme | Width | Height | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure Journal | 920 | flexible | |
| Ambiru | 500 | 225 | download |
| Andrea (Flexible Width) | 1270 | 260 | |
| Andrea (Fixed Width) | 690 | 145 | |
| Ari | 240 | 75 | |
| A Simpler Time | 963 | 200 | |
| AutoFocus | 800 | 216 | |
| Blaskan | 1120 (3-col & 2-col)540 (1-col) | 160 | |
| Blogum | 945 | 150 | |
| Bold Life | 950 | 264 | |
| Bold News | 940 | 200 | |
| Bouquet (Responsive Width) | 1100 | 180 | |
| Bueno | 930 | 198 | |
| Benevolence | 700 | 225 | download |
| Black-Letterhead | 760 | 200 | |
| Blix | 690 | 115 | download |
| Chaotic Soul | 760 | 151 | download |
| Chapters | 960 | 100 | |
| Chunk | 800 | 140 | |
| Chateau | 960 | 260 | |
| Clean Home | 900 | 200 | |
| Comet | 960 | 200 | |
| Connections | 741 | 142 | download |
| Contempt | 750 | 140 | download |
| Coraline | 770 | 140 | Note: Cutline image size was 990 x 180 (Coraline replaced Cutline) |
| Day Dream | 527 | 273 | download |
| Digg 3 Column | 904 | 160 | download |
| Dusk to Dawn | 870 | 220 | |
| Duster | 1000 | 300 | |
| Elegant Grunge | 956 | 160 | |
| Elemin | 990 | flexible | |
| Enterprise | 960 | 80 | |
| Everyday | 250 | flexible | |
| Fresh & Clean | 920 | 116 | |
| Fjords04 | 900 | 200 | download |
| Fusion | 980 | 148 | |
| Freshy | 780 | 95 | download |
| Greenery | 740 | 176 | download |
| Grid Focus | 970 | 175 | |
| Grid Focus | 42 | 42 | Uses the blog picture on settings page |
| Iceburgg | 790 | 150 | download |
| Just Desserts | 920 | flexible | |
| K2-lite | 780 | 200 | |
| K2-lite | 780 | 200 | |
| Koi | 980 | 200 | |
| Kubrick | 740 | 192 | download |
| Liquorice | 900 | 235 | |
| Luscious | 960 | 100 | |
| Matala | 940 | 250 | |
| Minimum | 960 | 100 | |
| Modern News | 960 | 110 | |
| Motion | 50 | 50 | download |
| MistyLook | 760 | 189 | download |
| The Morning After | 960 | 70 | |
| Mystique | 940 | 200 | |
| Neat | 700 | 200 | download |
| Neo-Sapien | 480 | 250 | download |
| Newsy | 1016 | flexible | |
| Next Saturday | 615 | 85 | |
| Nishita | 1024 | 295 | |
| Notepad | 974 | 240 | |
| Nuntius | 980 | 155 | |
| Ocean Mist | 736 | 229 | download |
| Origin | 940 | flexible | |
| Oulipo | 712 | 80 | |
| Oxygen | 940 (flexible) | flexible | |
| Parament | 950 | 200 | |
| P2 | 980 | 120 | |
| Piano Black | 951 | 160 | |
| Pilcrow | 770 | 200 | download |
| Pink Touch 2 | 690 | 185 | |
| Pool | 600 | 150 | download |
| Prologue | 726 | 150 | |
| Quintus | 1100 | 250 | |
| Reddle | 1120 | 252 | |
| Redoable-Lite | 730 | 180 | |
| Regulus | 730 | 140 | download |
| Retro-fitted | 980 | 150 | |
| Rubric | 215 | 150 | download |
| Rusty Grunge | 658 | 240 | |
| San Kloud | 940 | 250 | |
| Sapphire | 750 | 180 | download |
| Selecta | 940 | 150 | |
| Shaan | 900 | 100 | |
| Skeptical | 940 | 200 | |
| Spectrum | 938 | 150 | |
| Splendio | 990 | 400 | |
| Standard | 940 | 250 | |
| Strange Little Town | 950 | 200 | |
| Structure | 960 | 120 | |
| Suburbia | 155 | 155 | |
| Sundance | 984 | 242 | |
| Sunspot | 257 | 157 | |
| Tarski | 720 | 180 | download |
| ThemeMin | 960 | 180 | |
| Titan | 960 | 180 | |
| Triton Lite | 960 | 270 | |
| Twenty Eleven | 1000 | flexible | |
| Twenty Ten | 940 | 198 | download |
| Under the Influence | 980 | 180 | |
| Vertigo | 960 | 240 | |
| Vigilance | 920 | 180 | |
| Vintage Kitchen | 580 | 140 | |
| Vostok | 600 | 126 | download |
| zBench | 960 | 200 |
To download any of the original files linked above:
- Internet Explorer: right-click download and “Save Target As”
- Opera: right-click download and “Save Target As”
- Firefox: right-click download and “Save Link As”
Last modified: May 26, 2012
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