Thank you very much

The way I have something similar to this set-up is to load a random image from the header.php section and if for whatever reason the image is not accessibly/not there/etc. then it’ll load the default one from the .css file. This has the advantage of not processing the CSS file, being easy to integrate directly in the header.php file and thus avoiding set-up problems and to lessen the load on the server (which can just serve the CSS file to the clients without preprocessing it and then the clients can just cache it normally).

It took a while for me to comment on this, but I thought it could help others. I love this theme but I’m not using it yet but this method I outlined is the one I’m using right now in a connections theme (which I use for testing, mostly)

Step (2) should be:

<?php
/* Fetch a random polaroaid image in the travelogue/images/polaroids directory
based on
http://www.notes.xythian.net/2005/05/14/in-pursuit-of-random-polaroids/
*/

$randy = ‘wp-content/themes/travelogue’;

$fileList = array();
$handle = opendir($randy . ‘/images/polaroids’);
while ( false !== ( $file = readdir($handle) ) ) {
$file_info = pathinfo($file);
if (’jpg’ == strtolower( $file_info['extension'])) {
$fileList[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($handle);

$randy .= ‘/images/polaroids/’ . $fileList[time() % count($fileList)];
?>

<style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
.polaroid1 {
background: url(’<?php echo $randy?>’) no-repeat;
}

</style>

(1) Comment out the polaroid1 class in style.css

(2) In header,php, put in the HEAD section (below the REL tag for the stylesheet):

.polaroid1 {
background: url(”) no-repeat;
}

PurpleBaron.

Perhaps in the future I’ll have to ask your permission to borrow this code, no sense in reinventing the wheel. Thanks and good luck!