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kloy

Is there a wordpress plug-in to rotate background images? I can't decide between a few for this site and though it might be good to randomly rotate a 2 or 3 different ones. Is this possible?

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DogsGhost

do you want it to choose from a set and randomly display on on page load?
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/randomize-background-image/

or do you want the image to change while the user is viewing the page? This is also doable but sounds pretty distracting if its a background image on the body.

kloy

Why does it say that the PHP goes ABOVE the DOCTYPE? Nothing should go above the DOCTYPE??? Right?

waybetter

use this image rotator, i am not sure if if a plug-in though.

tazzkiller

    <script type="text/javascript">
    // # of images
    var imgCount = 4;
    // image directory
    var dir = 'http://yourdomain.com/images/bg/';
    // random the images
    var randomCount = Math.round(Math.random() * (imgCount - 1)) + 1;
    // array of images & file name
    var images = new Array
    images[1] = "1.jpg",
    images[2] = "2.jpg",
    images[3] = "3.jpg",
    images[4] = "4.jpg";
    document.body.style.backgroundImage = "url(" + dir + images[randomCount] + ")";
    </script>

A little javascript for randomise your body background ...

AlenAbdula

Why does it say that the PHP goes ABOVE the DOCTYPE? Nothing should go above the DOCTYPE??? Right?

Pretty much all server side languages can go above the DOCTYPE. In the example you mention, PHP processes the variables so they are available within the document. Nothing actually gets outputted above the DOCTYPE.

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