If you are the observant type and have visited my blog before, you will notice that the header image has changed.

When I started this blog, I was labouring under the illusion that I wanted a fresh start with a new blog and a new personality to go with it. Thus SilverCat was born. I looked around for a suitable header image and did not find one. As a temporary measure, I cut a chunk out of one of my photos and used that. If you recall, it looked like this:

Old header image

After a relatively short time, however, it occurred to me that I was really still SilverTiger and wanted to go on being SilverTiger. Being SilverCat felt like being in disguise. So I posted my plaintive Change of name post and became myself again.

The next thing I decided that I wanted to do was to replace the temporary header with the header from my old blog, the one with the tiger’s eyes. It is one of the few photos on my blogs that I did not take myself. I cropped it from an image I found on a royalty-free photo site many years ago. It had accompanied me from 2006 until 2019 and I wanted it to go on accompanying me.

Uploading a new header image is easy and the steps you need to take to install it are clearly laid out and easy to follow. Except, it seems, for the last one. The header image just would not appear. Eventually, I was moved to post a message on the WordPress forum. This was necessary because users of the free service do not have direct access to WordPress support.

I waited for several weeks but no reply was forthcoming. Until today, that is. Eventually someone saw my distress signal and replied. It turned out that the problem was a simple one and equally simple to remedy: I had completed all the steps to replacing the header but for the last one. There was one more button to click and one more option to tick. I had failed to understand this but once I had done it – Bingo! – the header changed and now looks like this:

New header

Restoring my header feels a bit like changing out of a disguise into my normal clothes and becoming myself again.