I’ve had several requests, so today I’m releasing a header source file for the WP Commerce Steel theme I released yesterday. The header contains all the typography and styles you’ll need to create your own custom header/logo for your WP Commerce Steel powered site.

One important thing to note – the height of the header graphic should not exceed 100px. If you make your graphic taller than that, you’ll need to do some custom editing to the CSS file in order to make the theme display properly. You can increase the width of the image by several hundred pixels with no side effects.

To replace the title and sub title with a custom header open up header.php find the H1 and H2 tags, completely remove them and replace with the image tag for your header.

Many WordPress themes these days use a dynamic navigation bar to display the navigation for pages. This is great, except when you have a ton of pages in your blog and you only want to display a select few.

The way to dictate which pages you want to show is pretty simple. I will use the WP Presstige theme code as an example. Find the following line of code in the header.php file of the WP Presstige theme:

We need to add the “include” parameter to that line of code, which will allow us to specify which pages we want listed in the navigation. See the updated code:

What I did was add the following line to the beginning of the code:

include=1,2&

The 1 and 2 are page IDs so by doing this, I’ve specified that I want to include page 1 and 2 in the navigation.

It’s been almost 2 weeks since our launch, and I think it’s about time we started getting into some WordPress tutorials and tips as promised.

One of the hottest plugins in WordPress themes these days is the Featured Content Gallery 2.0 plugin – originally from WPelements.com, recently moved to revolutiontwo.com. This plugin allows you to add an AJAX content gallery to your blog which gives you a visually pleasing way to feature content on your Blog.

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One thing that I’ve noticed is in WordPress 2.6.3 the post content does not display properly under the title. Also, some people would probably prefer to use the Excerpt field to dictate what conent they would like displayed on the home page, instead of pulling content right out of the post.

To hack the Featured Content Gallery plugin to display data from the excerpt field instead of right out of the post, you only need to make 1 minor modification to the code.

1. Browse to yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/content-gallery/
2. Open up the file gallery.php
3. If you’re using an HTML editor, find line 40. Otherwise look for the following line of code:
   
4. Change “the_content_rss” to “the_excerpt_rss”
5. Save gallery.php and upload the file.

You’ll need to go into your featured posts and add your custom excerpt into the excerpt field. You can also leave it blank, and WordPress will take the excerpt right out of the content.