A few times I’ve gotten asked about how to change the height of the Flashfader header slideshow. It’s not terribly difficult, but it’s not as easy as you might think, either.

1. Step 1: Go to “Manage” –> “Flashfader” and set the height to whatever you want it to be. Click “save.”

2. Step 2: Go to “Design” –> “Theme Editor” and choose “Stylesheet (style.css)” to edit it. Scroll down to line 268 (there’s a line marker at line 265). This chunk looks like this:

/* LINE 265 */
 
#header-masthead {
height: 250px; /*height of masthead*/
background-image: none;
}

Change the height to whatever you want it to be.

3. Step 3: Finally, you’re going to need to use an FTP program or your File Manager to edit one more file, called “flashfader.js” It’s in your “prophoto” theme folder. Open it up with WordPad or TextEdit, and you will see two places where it says ‘height=”250px” or something like that. Change the height to your desired height in both places. Save your changes and reupload the file, overwriting the one on your web server.

4. Step 4: If you’ve already uploaded images into your Flashfader management area that are not your desired height, you’ll need to delete them and reupload new ones. Also, if you uploaded images that were something other than 250px high while your settings were still set at 250px, Flashfader may have cropped them. So, if they’re still not showing up right, delete them and reupload them.

5. Step 5: Empty your browsers cache and check your work.

Helpful related resources:
Using an FTP program
Using a web-based file manager utility

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