Increasing Header Size

if you’re new to wordpress you need to do a significant amount of reading about how it works. while it’s probably the most user friendly CMS out there it still requires a fairly large investment of time and learning in order to understand how to make it do things.

i recommend not only the wordpress.org documentation but also this site http://www.wpbeginner.com/ for a general overview and some more in-depth tutorials.

a solid grounding in html and css as well as at least a basic grasp of php and how the server cpanel works are also a very good thing to have. adjusting the header height isn’t too difficult but you should investigate using a child theme before you make any changes and since you don’t yet know where to find the code to change the header height i’d strongly suggest you do the learning before the tweaking…

i really don’t know all of the themes that are out there, there are literally thousands available. just search for minimal 2 column themes and see what you find.

removing things like that logo are pretty straight forward but we would be telling you how to do something you’re not quite ready to do yet…

ok. read this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes, create your child theme, upload it and activate it.

you can now remove this logo one of two ways: hide it with css or remove it from the theme altogether.

hiding it with css – in your child theme’s style.css file add in the following:

div.section-inner div.blog-logo
{
  display: none;
}

if that css isn’t specific enough to target the logo image then try

div.section-inner div.blog-logo a img
{
  display: none;
}

otherwise you can cut it out of the theme altogether:

copy over the header.php file from the parent theme (hemingway) into the folder on the server of your child theme. open this file in the dashboard of your wordpress site (appearance -> editor) and look for a chunk of the code that says:

<div class="header-inner section-inner">

remove that and everything down to

</div> <!-- /header-inner -->

save the file and see if that’s done the job. bear in mind i’ve given you these tips without actually having the theme on a site to test them out first but after looking through the code in the header.php file this is my best assessment for removing it.

if they don’t work or things look wrong then don’t panic, just go onto your server and delete the header.php file from your child theme folder and start again.

in the meantime, here’s the support forum specific to the hemingway theme: https://wordpress.org/support/theme/hemingway

we do our best, we’re a bunch of volunteers and users from all over the world who contribute our knowledge and time when we can. there are different forums on here for different areas of using and developing wordpress but generally if you have a problem with your site this is the place to go.

i would say however, before you post your question, use the search feature as it’s very very likely that your problem has occurred before and the solution has been revealed. wordpress has been going for years so most of the common problems have been addressed in depth over the years. 😀