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1. TheSlenderStudent
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   I'm having trouble editing the Mon Cahier theme to make my custom header image link back to my homepage. Any advice? Site is http://www.TheSlenderStudent.com

   http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mon-cahier/

2. Christine
   WP Yogi & Forum Moderator
   Theme Author
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Hi there, I just took a look at your site and I like what you did. Unfortunately, the theme isn't coded so that the header image is linked to the home page. It's meant to have a title and description. However there is a way around that. It does take a bit of coding, but it's pretty easy.

   The first thing you'll want to do is make a child theme.

   Once you have a child theme, you should have a folder (call it mon-cahier-child or whatever you want). That folder will have a style.css with the following info in it.

   /*
   Theme Name: Mon Cahier Child
   Description: Child theme for the mon cahier theme
   Author: Your name here
   Template: mon-cahier
   */
   
   @import url("../mon-cahier/style.css");
   
   }

   Next you want to open the parent theme (mon-cahier) and copy the header. php. Bring that entire file in your child theme. Open it in a text-editor and on line #39, you can edit the line like so:

   <a href="http://www.theslenderstudent.com"><img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>" height="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>" alt="" /></a>

   That's it. Once you are done that, you might also want to install a plugin like WordPress SEO. Because you've removed the site title and description, your page titles now are not very informative. Just a thought..

   Good luck.

3. radhika
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   @TheSlenderStudent
   According your theme you have to delete some line in your header.php file such as:

   <?php $header_image = get_header_image();
   		if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) { ?>
   
   			<img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>" height="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>" alt="" />
   
   		<?php } // if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) ?>

   And add this code in your header.php file:
   

   <?php $heading_tag = ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) ? 'h1' : 'div'; ?>
         <<?php echo $heading_tag; ?> id="site-title">
           <span>
             <a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a>
           </span>
         </<?php echo $heading_tag; ?>>

   After this, you have to edit in style.css of your theme:
   

   #site-title {
   float: left;
     padding: 10px 0;
     width: 960px;
   }
   #site-title a {
     color: #000;
     font-weight: bold;
     text-decoration: none;
     font-size: 180px !important;
     display: block;
     text-indent: -999em;
     background: url('image.jpg'); //path of your image
     height:200px;
   }

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