This post, I would like to pin-point some of the questions that people ask, which are in no way related to the theme they were using.

First thing to check
The first thing you have to check, before you decide if an issue at hand is an issue with the theme, is to go and set your site to use a different theme.
You can do this, by going to Appearance > Themes > and then picking up a different theme.

If you are still having the issue at hand, then it means, the issue is not at all related to the theme you were using. Makes sense?

Most common issues that are not related to the theme you were using
Issue 1: Uploading Images do not work with your theme
If you are having issues with uploading images to your post, it has nothing to do with the theme you are using.
It is probably because of a ‘directory permission’ issue at your wp-content folder or any of its sub-folders. This could also be because of this issue.
This is not controlled by the theme at all.
So, you can do the ‘first thing to check’ as suggested above, and I am sure, it will not be a theme issue.

Issue 2: RSS Feed does not load
The RSS feed for your WordPress site is not controlled by the theme that you are currently using. It is generated by WordPress, and most often, the feed becomes broken, when you have some invalid xhtml in one of your posts. You probably forgot to put some closing tags or you copied and pasted content into your post from somewhere else.
Again, you can do the ‘first thing to check’ as suggested above, and I am sure, it will not be a theme issue.

There may be other issues that are not related to the theme, and I will update this post as and when possible.

1. Clicking on the “Image” upload option under “Add New Post” or “Add New Page” screen
2. or by clicking on Media, and then “Add New” from the new WordPress 2.7.1 menu option
3. or by using the “Custom Image Header” option that many of my themes provide.

I was very much puzzled and I tried to solve the issue by taking different approaches.

The First Approach
The first approach I took, was to check permissions for the “wp-content” and the “uploads” directory within the WordPress installation.
I even set it to “777″ which basically means “open” to anyone. (by the way, 777 reminds me of the coupon code of DreamHost which offers a heavy discount on their hosting package.)
Anyway, coming back to the point, the permission changes did not help.

The Second Approach
The second approach is to see if any of the plugins is causing this issue. I went to the Plugins area and disabled all the plugins.
I tried uploading an image afterward, but still no luck.

The Third Approach
Third approach does not take a lot of thinking to do. It is just “Ask the Google” approach. After skimming through a couple of links, I finally landed on this thread on the WordPress.Org forums.
and at the bottom of page, I saw this comment.

Solution for the error
Step 1: Log into your admin panel
Step 2: Go to Settings>>Miscellaneous
You will see two options,
Store uploads in this folder
Full URL path to files
Most probably you will see
/home/.boogee/XXXXX/XXXXXXX/wp-content/uploads
in the first field.
Step 3: Edit that to just
wp-content/uploads
PS: Please take a backup of what you are editing, in case this trick didn’t work, you can restore the old URL.
This should do the trick.

I tried to manually set it to “wp-content/uploads/” but it still did not work for me.

Then finally, I just went ahead and emptied the text on those text boxes and saved it.

Click for a larger view!
Anyway, This fixed the issue for me and hope it stays fixed when upgrading to the next version of WordPress.
Disclaimer: This post is only given as a suggestion, and please don’t make me responsible if it does not work for you.

When you use the text editor to align the images, WordPress adds class=”alignleft”, class=”alignright” or class=”aligncentered” to the ‘img’ tags or its surrouding ‘div’ element, when you choose left, right or center alignment for your images.

The post looks aligned to the left, right or centered within the WordPress admin area, but when you see the post on your site, it may not look properly aligned. It is because the theme that you are using, may not be aware of those classes added by WordPress.

How do you make your site’s theme to be aware of these classes?

You have to add the style definitions for these classes in your current theme’s stylesheet.
Open your style.css in your Theme Editor [Login to your site and click on Design -> Theme Editor].
Add the following code to the end of style.css.
img.alignleft, div.alignleft
{
float:left;
margin:0 0.5em 0.5em 0;
}
img.alignright, div.alignright
{
float:right;
margin:0 0 0.5em 0.5em;
}
img.aligncenter, div.aligncenter
{
text-align:center;
margin:0 auto;
}

How to display the CAPTIONS for the image properly in WordPress 2.6?

Recently another question popped up in the support forums, asking the above question.
The Solution to that problem is mentioned at the codex as follows.
.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
/* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}
.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}
.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}
Add this to the end of your theme’s style.css.

This should normally take care of the image alignments / Captions when using the properties of the text editor in WordPress 2.6 and using one of my themes as your current theme.
Let me know if this article can be improved.
Thanks.

If you need/want the index.php to be there, then on the Settings->Permalinks screen, add some values in for the category and tag bases. The words “category” and “tag” will do just fine. As long as they are not blank, this should work around the bug.

As mentioned in the thread FIX: 2.6 Permalink issues with ‘index.php’ on the WordPress.org Support Forums.
Hope it helps someone out there.

Now, People started asking me for the complete list of themes that supports this feature.

Themes created by me that supports “Custom Header Image”

Last Updated on : Feb 17 2010.

Themes created by other people that supports “Custom Header Image”

This is where I need your help. Post the names of the themes with this feature created by others as a comment to this post. I will update the post accordingly.

1. Cutline Theme supports rotating header image, but it not the same as what we are discussing on this post. We are talking about the custom header image feature, where people upload their own image within the WordPress admin, and then they crop the image to fit the header size and then apply that image.