In reply to: Action Hook Gone Rogue (in the Header Banner)

#28805

Hello again,

I followed your instructions and it, hooray, shows the original flow.jpg as a banner. I looked at the page source and found there is still the text for that rogue PNG file, but it is now hiding a few lines below a a DIV class=<div class=”entry-content clearfix”>.

Following that, I went to the headers page, chose one of the uploaded photo banners, and it works as it should! So does random!

Great, that seems to fix it. Thanks muchly!

So what can we learn from it? That that file somehow got attached to the header as a featured image?

I do have a prime suspect:

There is a plugin hiding in there somewhere that automatically adds the first image as a featured image to posts:

“”Auto Post Thumbnail: Automatically generate the Post Thumbnail (Featured Thumbnail) from the first image in post (or any custom post type) only if Post Thumbnail is not set manually.””

Perhaps this was messing with the header banner?

And I’m not sure how this interacts with the v1.7 theme-head.php rollback; if I upgrade again or do a new child theme from the original 1.7.1 zip file, hopefully I’ll be able to check this box and fix it again in the future.

Thanks much, I truly appreciate it!

In reply to: Action Hook Gone Rogue (in the Header Banner)

#28803

Hello, thanks for your input.

I forgot to mention that these troubles did begin just after the 1.7.1 upgrade. Sorry, that is a significant fact, I’m sure!

-Josh, I followed your advice, which I believe rolled back theme-head.php to 1.7. At first glance, nothing has changed…

-Syahir, thanks for chiming in. (You’ll likely enjoy hearing that many of the banner images that I’m trying to display are from a field trip to the Kauri forest at the Waitakere Forests, or from a lovely mural at a school just of K Road in Auckland.)

I’ve clicked the “restore original header image button”. The header screen preview updates and shows, properly, the flow.jpg banner. However, the problem remains on the front page, with the missing image link still there, and no sign of flow.jpg as an image or within the HTML source code.

I’ve also, for fun, tried “remove header image”…which blanks the preview screen and again makes no change on the frontpage. I’m not sure if it was intended to make the whole banner section disappear from the page layout…

The preview banner on the custom header page has always behaved properly (including randomly cycling through the previously uploaded images); it is only upon going to the actual frontpage that the banner doesnt show up.

I did also try retracing the steps where I enabled the action hook for the logo overlay, but it didn’t work and the long-ago-uploaded image link is still stuck there.

And to confirm, the only media manager files with the bold “header image” text flag are uploaded cropped*.jpg files. There is no sign of the long-since deleted OElogobannerTEXT.png file here.

Any other ideas? I can’t think of where this now-obsolete link would be hiding….or how it is managing to block the banner from functioning.