We’re wrapping up the first version of Twenty Eleven, and have one blocker: the header image is big. It’s HUGE, even. We love it, and feel it’s something many people will also love — especially people new to WP and blogging — but we’re getting mixed reactions to just how big it is.
Header image size isn’t a really big deal if you have flexible header heights. To allow maximum customization for Twenty Eleven bloggers that want a smaller header image we’re recommending a core change to allow flexible header heights. It’d benefit more than just the default theme; flexible height headers is a top user request for themes on WP.com.
We’d love your feedback and your help getting it into 3.2.
See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17242 for the juicy details.
Andrew, 
Matías 8:43 pm on May 5, 2011 Permalink
Some background information on the current header section possibilities in Twenty Eleven. Right now we have:
All those are available using the core options of Custom Header.
With the flexible header height enhancement, something like http://cl.ly/042E1B3X08113u3a0D3Y should be easily achievable by the user without any extra options.
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anmari 12:27 am on May 6, 2011 Permalink
Hi,
I’d suggest also providing an option that header image (beautiful photo’s by the way) only be shown on the home page (possibly still with random choice on each load) and that other pages just have a title/tagline.
Also pretty please – I’d love to see (and maybe this requires an option to be set in wp core) the ability to say “no comment functionality required at all” and then not have comments mentioned anywhere. No “you must be logged in”, No “No comments allowed” … just simply nothing.
Andrew 8:04 pm on May 16, 2011 Permalink
Yes! This would be absolutely fantastic. First, for many sites that use WordPress as a CMS, you’re not going to want any kind of commenting. Second, there are many blogs out there (e.g. Daring Fireball) whose format simply does not require comments. Having it completely hidden from the user would be ideal.
Knut Sparhell 3:15 am on May 19, 2011 Permalink
There is an option to turn on or off commenting. Commenting metaboxes may also be hidden on the editor page. Try the support forum if you have trouble finding it.
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