Change Banner in Wordpress Greed Theme
I could tell by google analytics that a few of my readers wanted to know how I changed the banner in my Greed wordpress theme, this may work with other themes as well.
Actually this is the only downfall of this theme where it says ” GREED OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS SERIES”. There is no easy way to change this.
1. Right click the banner and click “view the background image”. You will be able to view the banner only, and take note or the banner URL. Mine is like this
http://www.blog-earnings.com/wp-content/themes/greed-09-rc2/images/bg_banner.gif
2. The bold part of the url is the name of the image So I saved as bg_banner.gif
3. I opened up the banner in paint and proceeded to use the large spray paint can and spray in shades of yellow, green and white until I could no longer see the words. I then saved it again ( I am not an artistic genius so I know there is probably better ways to do this).
4. I searched google for a free banner generator that allowed you to use your own background. Sorry, I can not remember which one I used.
5. I made sure to save my banner as bg_banner.gif and that it remained the same exact size.
6. Log into your Cpanel files and find the original banner by following the path of the url above I told you to take note of.
wp-content/themes/greed-09-rc2/images
at this point you should see the file bg_banner.gif- delete bg_banner.gif now upload your new file bg_banner.gif
You could actually skip the paint process in #3 and just create a banner of the same proportions. I just liked the background texture and tried my best to blend it.
Note: For Some reason my banner showed up left of center, I do not know how to fix this, but you may keep that in mind as you are designing your banner. I kind of like mine there anyways.
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