And here’s a little hint. Before you go and delete all sorts of stuff in your header.php file, use the  comment symbols /* comments go inside here */ to comment out the stuff that is no longer needed instead of deleting it. That way if your website ‘breaks’ you can always bring back the code which you commented out.

At any rate, what I did was add one line of php code into the header file and ‘comment out’ one line – as shown below. Note, you need to find the place in your header.php file where a header image would be displayed. How do you find that? Well, If your theme is worth its salt, it will have documentation clearly indicating where this is. In my theme, the documentation was as follows:

/* ======== HEADER IMAGE ======== */
/*get_template_part(‘hdr’,'image’);*/      /*this is the original line which produced the original header*/
{ nggSlideshowWidget(3,940,198); };    /*I added this which calls the Next Gen gallery slideshow widget instead */

Note how I ‘commented out’ the original line and added the {nggSlideshowWidget (3,940,198);} line. The line I added calls up the NextGen gallery widget to create a slideshow from the gallery with an ID number of 3 and size it to 940 x 198 pixels.

Hope this helps you if you should ever want to add a slideshow to the header of your WordPress website!

Step 1: Go to your website: http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin (Replace the word yourwebsite, with the name of your website.

Step 2: When you do Step 1, you will see a page that looks like what you see below. Enter your username and password and click the ‘Log In’ button.

Step 3: After logging in you will see a page like this. Click the ‘Pages’ menu tab and then the ‘All Pages’ menu tab.

Step 4: That will bring you to a list of all the pages on your website as shown below. You now mus select the page you want to edit by clicking on the name of the page and then clicking the word ‘Edit’ beneath the page’s name.

Step 5: Now we get to the interesting stuff. You can edit the text on the page just like you would in any word processor. There are buttons for Bold, Italic etc which you can use as well. The thing that’s easy to forget is that you must make sure to click the update button after you are all done – as shown below.

Step 6: And now it’s time to check out what your website looks like after your changes! Choose one of the many ways to get back to your edited website (shown below).