Title: Change Header text
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Change Header text

 *  [delestage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delestage/)
 * (@delestage)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-header-text-3/)
 * I would like to change the header text of my site, thedelestage.com.
    Before 
   using wordpress, I had a little bit of code as follows:
 * _[please use the ‘code’ button to mark any [posted code ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code)–
   this will keep it intact and readable]_
 * `<h1><a href="index.html" title="Home"><span class="big"><strong>DELE</strong
   ><span class="red">*</span>STAGE</span></a>`
    This allowed the color of the letters,
   but not the * in “DELE*STAGE” to change on mouseover from red to black. I’m new
   to php and not sure how to change this to the way I had it before wordpress. 
   Any ideas?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-header-text-3/#post-2179329)
 * you will need to edit header.php, and look for:
 *     ```
       <h1 id="site-title"><a href="<?php...?>" title="<?php....?>" rel="home"><?php .... ?></a></h1>
       ```
   
 * with some php code instead of the …..
 * try and replace this with your code:
 *     ```
       <h1 id="site-title"><a href="index.html" title="Home"><span class="big"><strong>DELE</strong><span class="red">*</span>STAGE</span></a></h1>
       ```
   
 * and copy the css from ‘Before using wordpress’ into style.css of your theme.
 * (untested)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-header-text-3/#post-2179329)
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