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Brian
(@gophumek)

11 years, 2 months ago

I know there isn’t a built in theme option to do so, but is there a way to not use a title at all, like leaving the Site title blank in general settings and inserting a jpg in the header php to use as a logo. I’ve tried this in the past and I remember it not lining up correctly or messing up IE8.

Is there a simple way to do that to make sure the logo img would go exactly where the site title is now?

Thanks,
Brian

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Hennessey Digital
(@wpthemesnz)

11 years, 2 months ago

Hi Brian,

You could try editing the header.php file and looking for the following line:

<h1 id="logo"><a href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>" rel="nofollow"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>

Should be somewhere in the bottom third of the file.

Change it to:

<h1 id="logo"><a href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://yoursite.com/logo.jpg" alt="Logo"></a></h1>

NOTE: best practice way is to do your theme modifications via a child theme. This makes it so that any updates to the theme does not overwrite the changes you’ve made to the theme. Here are a couple resources for making child themes:

http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/child-themes-basics-and-creating-child-themes-in-wordpress/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Thread Starter Brian
(@gophumek)

11 years, 1 month ago

Thank you so much for your help. I definitely need to work on making a child theme.

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