Themes » Custom Header Image

Contents

• Uploading a Custom Header Image
• Other Options
• Deleting Header Images
• Flexible Headers
• Supported Themes

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• Uploading Custom Themes

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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